A review by kdehaven
Nancy Drew: The Palace of Wisdom by Kelly Thompson

5.0

I really loved this book. I'd been looking forward to reading Kelly Thompson's take on Nancy Drew since she's one of my favorite authors and I devoured the Nancy Drew novels as a child, and this did not disappoint. Thompson imagines the classic Nancy Drew friend group in a modern context and engages themes of loss, long-distance friendship, and systemic injustice. Instead of just having the issue of police not believing Nancy and her friends because they're high school kids, Thompson also looks at what it means for victims to be women in vulnerable socio-economic situations and how those cases are investigated. Even while Thompson deals with serious themes, it's still a really fun book. The individual issues in this collection go together well, and the artwork is really well-done. I'd highly recommend this to fans of comics/graphic novels and the classic Nancy Drew books and computer games.