Same old trope, kill off the woman for dramatic effect. Yay. 
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OFFS. No, just no.
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I can save Frank and Joe Hardy some time here. Nancy was fridged. /s
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Thanks, that was the phrase I couldnāt remember when I posted this.
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āWe swear we didnāt throw her in the fridge, and this is not an issue meant to celebrate her 90th anniversary!ā protests comic book publisher, following blowback resulting from their announcement that they were throwing her in a fridge for her 90th anniversary.
Did these idiots learn nothing from the āCaptain America was a Hydra agent all along!ā fiasco?
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No?
Wait, are they going to bring her back next episode and it was all just an innocent exercise after all? Thatās ok thenā¦
I am so tired of that trope in comics.
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I think it would be more interesting if they had her disappear instead and then release a second book explaining where she went and why (her own mystery to the mystery with the Hardy Boys eventually link up maybe in a third book?). Iām not a writer but I think it would be more clever that way if the goal is to sell books.
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I like the storyline where sheās gone into deep cover in order to crack a case, but those bumbling Hardy Boys threaten to ruin everything.
I guess suspension of disbelief only goes so farā¦ she cracks the case, but is forced to let the Hardy Boys take credit, because the prosecuter canāt be trusted.
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How about the Hardy Boys killed her?
But at the end thereās a twist and she merely faked her death to set them up?
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Well, youāve spoiled it nowā¦ 
But that could have been cool!
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Perhaps the Hardy Boys could go missing during the investigation and have to be rescued by Harriet the Spy.
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With help from Miss Marple.
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(4 disappearances later)
āOh shit, I think I may be in way over my head here.ā āEncyclopedia Brown
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Just as an aside, did Nancy Drew get way more hardcore after I stopped reading it? Like, IIRC the books are mostly small-time, small-town stuff. When did she start going deep undercover in the flippinā mafia?
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I read some of the old stuff to my kids a few months ago. Even in the early stories there were pretty serious crimes like kidnappings and (I think?) the occasional attempted murder.
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Iām not sure why those things register differently with me than undercover mafia work does, but apparently they do. I always find something new about my brain to be fascinated by.
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Apparently at some point it became Miami Vice?
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Dude in the shorts is planning to hit that 
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I didnāt know they did crossovers between the two franchises, but now that I know Iāll bet thereās an offensive shorthand amalgamation of the two franchise names that fans use when referring to such works.
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Hardy Drew Mysteries sounds cool 
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