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In any case, Dynamite made good on their promise, and when we first see George in The Case of the Cold Case, Chapter One, she is making out with her girlfriend, Danica. Thus, another queer character was added forevermore to the Nancy Drew canon.

And yet, for all the hype that surrounded this series' "modern," "intersectional," "feminist" take on the world of Nancy Drew (and the Hardy Boys; god forbid we get a Nancy Drew story these days without those two showing up), it somehow managed to feel dated, its minority characters handled in a very one-step-forward-two-steps-back fashion.

Perhaps the biggest weakness of Campus was its having far more characters than it could handle, but the series at least tried to treat them all with respect. They felt fleshed out, complex, and enjoyed at least one shining moment in the spotlight. By contrast, all the characters in this latest comic incarnation of Nancy feel completely one-note. Writer Kelly Thompson succeeds in conveying a strong sense of the characters' personalities (an easy feat given they all have the exact same one), but fails to tell us almost anything else about them. The newly-added characters of color are just so much window-dressing, included, so it appears, only to appeal to socially-conscious millennial readers. (What purpose did Noah and Mia even serve in their one-page appearance, other than to be the off-brand Wallace and Mac to this Nancy's off-brand Veronica Mars?)