The Demon of River Heights (Nancy Drew Graphic Novel Series #1) Book

I have fond memories of my Daddy reading Nancy Drew books to me as a child, and this new graphic novel version doesn't measure up. The artwork is bad, with some crappy CG thrown in just to mix things up a bit. Specifically, the characters' faces are poorly done and all of the women except for George are drawn like Playboy models (even Nancy... sort of... she's got a little too much scoliosis and her boobs are just... strange).

It's also just a little too "rah rah women can do everything and look like male fantasies" for me. It's tough for me to believe that someone who would spend as much time on her own appearance as Bess would have the ability to tune up Nancy's vehicle and fix a VCR.

Most ridiculous scene: Nancy is faced with a grizzly bear in the woods, so while the bear is all getting in her face, her friend George spends time looking up how to behave toward bears on her tablet. She instructs Nancy to fight the bear, so Nancy punches it in the face. a. How would George's tablet work in the middle of the woods, b. Why didn't Nancy get eaten while George was busy surfing the web, and c. She punched a bear in the face. Forget this graphic novel--send your daughters to girl scouts instead.