"It's a complex and interesting time to be a woman." We're seeing a real surge in female heroines and huge franchises based around women, and in the real world there feels as if there's almost a zeitgeist around women," Thompson says. "I would have been happy to write Nancy any time but it's a great time for a heroine like Nancy. But in 2018, with the country still reeling from the 2016 election and its backlash that, in part, inspired women to speak out against sexual harassment with #MeToo, to demand equal pay, and to run for elected office in record numbers, a Nancy Drew redux is prescient. Since her inception, Nancy and her crew have ranged from paragons of pre-World War II gutsy female agency to more buttoned-down exemplars of the 1950s good girl, and then sadly reduced to Sweet Valley High-esque soapy characters in the late '80s and early '90s. Fans of the original who never quite looked or felt like the scrubbed upper-middle-class straight white teens depicted in those books will finally have an array of characters who better represent them. But the New Nancy Drew Mystery Stories (due out in June) that Dynamite put together under packager and editor Nathan Cosby, and written by Kelly Thompson and illustrated by Jenn St-Onge, takes the series in an unmistakably empowered, intersectional, and queer direction. While she endured several permutations through the years based on the politics and social mores of the era, the titular character was always something of a feminist considering her fearlessness and agency in the face of danger, not to mention her enduring devotion to her female friends. Publisher Edward Stratemeyer created the self-made, plucky Nancy in the 1930s, churning out dozens of Nancy Drew Mysteries from various writers over the decades who wrote under the pen name Carolyn Keene.
Now, Dynamite Entertainment offers the latest rendition of the cracker-jack teen sleuth with a comic that fully realizes Nancy's feminist tendencies, adds several characters who are people of color, and finally, unmistakably queers perpetual "tomboy" George.
Since the titian-haired girl detective from River Heights cracked her first mystery in The Secret of the Old Clock nearly 90 years ago, there have been dozens of iterations of Nancy Drew and her best friends, Bess and George, featured in books, TV, and films.
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