92.1: Together with the Hardy Boys Gerry Convway & Sho Murase

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And now: The Biggest Crossover Event of All Time

Badger, Gun-Tutting Cardinal

Oh HELL yes

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Hell yeah.

FancyShark

Palette cleanser!

Badger, Gun-Tutting Cardinal

Shot/chaser

GDC

My eyes are not prepared for this art.

Badger, Gun-Tutting Cardinal

Starting off strong with the literal copy paste Boys Hardy right on the cover

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

The fun part is this could be literally any shonen manga.

gellaho

Not a great start

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FancyShark

Varf Negru, home of the Varf and Tarf dinner

Badger, Gun-Tutting Cardinal

Who would name a hotel thus. Utterly fascinating. I'm already invested

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Varf the Impaler, 14th century warlord and inventor of doner kebabs.

FancyShark

GIF

gellaho

Definitely needed this many credits

FancyShark

Based on suggestions

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Hahahah poor Sho.

FancyShark

"Hey, maybe a Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew story?"

LyraV

elenments

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

I wonder if he got work after this or it killed his career?

LyraV

elenemts

gellaho

This is the art they chose for the back

gellaho

No eyes, please

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Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

"great"

LyraV

Badger, Gun-Tutting Cardinal

Are they though

FancyShark

"Eventually"

Badger, Gun-Tutting Cardinal

Oh I love that rapster

GDC

Sho Murase is the name Alan Smithee uses when he's too embarrassed.

gellaho

"People call me the c-word, a lot"

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Sho Elenemts is Sho Nuff's cousin. They call him the Taisho of Atlanta.

Badger, Gun-Tutting Cardinal

"Almost" is doing a lot of heavy lifting on that paragraph

FancyShark

That actually doesn't sound at all like a detective, Nancy

gellaho

Last time on: Manga Nancy Drew

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

"My friends call me Nancy.", Because its your fucking name, Nancy.

LyraV

I remember the terribly drawn vampire!

FancyShark

GIF

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

And you said no when Chet wanted to call you Nanners.

Badger, Gun-Tutting Cardinal

Gregor Coffson of all fucking people is going to be a recurring character.

gellaho

Whoof

Badger, Gun-Tutting Cardinal

GIF

LyraV

Her boots are different colors

GDC

There are too many limbs for that amount of people.

Badger, Gun-Tutting Cardinal

Oh my god there's a third person in that panel somehow.

LyraV

Ohhh I see it now ty!

whooof

Badger, Gun-Tutting Cardinal

Fucking crushed to death against the corner of the panel

gellaho

If you were wondering how the Hardy Boys are introduced

FancyShark

Take out the sound effects and that's something you'd see hanging on a wall at a cafe

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

"This is the worst waltz ever."

gellaho

They just show up

FancyShark

So NOT a long story

gellaho

Frank and George looking identical

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

I still like that Sho (probably on accident) made George an enby

gellaho

Good thing she scared Ned away, otherwise we'd have triplets

Badger, Gun-Tutting Cardinal

An inspired choice

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Also that face is very Speed Racer.

gellaho

Fuck!

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

🤌

gellaho

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Hands are fucking hard, Sho.

But you can do better.

Badger, Gun-Tutting Cardinal

Sho has never learned to draw and doesn't intend to start now

FancyShark

She's actually 200 years old

It's fine!

gellaho

FancyShark

That sounds like a seizure, Nancy

Badger, Gun-Tutting Cardinal

It's either a seizure or she's putting the moves on you.

“ol’ san antone” jakesy

Looks more like she's trying to show you where the pp goes

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Sho had to be threatened with legal action to not have the hands be doing something suggestive.

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Frank said, neither of them looking at each other

Badger, Gun-Tutting Cardinal

Show a little discretion, like on the Volcano Nuke Case

FancyShark

Nancy in her trademark Medieval Peasant garb

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"I won't wear pants if I don't want to, Frank!"

FancyShark

Then they make out

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Badger, Gun-Tutting Cardinal

Hairstyles are spikier on the cover. I guess they're going super Saiyan at some point in the book

FancyShark

SEE?!

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

God whoever decided they should fight alot should be given some kind of award and then shot.

LyraV

kiiiiiisssssssss come on

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Because its a real achievement when you make Frank and Joe more insufferable but the kind of achievement you punish people for.

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FancyShark

So where's Olaf the snowman?

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

"Oh okay, we broke into your doctors office and looked at your medical files and your tests confirmed you have anal warts."

gellaho

No way Sho understood George was a girl

LyraV

they're both so sweaty

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Enby Icon George.

FancyShark

:catzooks:

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Sho almost certainly had no idea what the story was while drawing any of this.

gellaho

Nancy remembering her Eyes Wide Shit party

FancyShark

Just like the writer

GDC

Nancy without ned has much more fun.

gellaho

"Our hair was a lot more anime back then"

FancyShark

Can decide between nude and shirt? Make the skin have weird folds!

LyraV

I like to remember things by envisioning them in a giant painting in front of me DS3 style.

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

I like the contrast that in this continuity the Hardy Boys are like secret super cops doing dirtbike stunts and Nancy Drew is a fucking Scooby Doo character who clears up deeply stupid misunderstandings.

FancyShark

And vampires

gellaho

"There were also zombies, but I won't mention that"

FancyShark

No offense to Sho, but this artwork is horrible

GDC

These panels all look like medieval paintings before perspective was invented.

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

"Well, we said zombies but we MEANT people who we think dont have free will."

gellaho

Emotions are hard

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

I gotta say tho I'm glad its borderline WikiHow, because that is what these deserve.

It would be a crime if either the art or story was really good.

FancyShark

Everyone is one step away from Elf

gellaho

Frank following his "How to Be a Vulcan" training

GDC

He's got the ears down

FancyShark

Traumatic amnesia. Real disease. Don't question it.

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Frank is wearing his rubber Spock ears. He's in disguise!

You cant possibly recognize him!

gellaho

A man as tall as ten tall men

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

And not because he is a generic white boy.

Badger, Gun-Tutting Cardinal

That's clearly Gerard Way

gellaho

Fuck

gellaho

Just, Sho

Badger, Gun-Tutting Cardinal

George is having a stroke! Call 911!!

gellaho

"How did you two switch positions so quickly?"

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Oh those are stink lines. George is hiding a fart and praying it doesnt waft near any cute boys.

FancyShark

"It's Ned. He's...very poorly drawn."

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

See? George is leaving the scene of the crime.

Crop dusting.

gellaho

Ned as in Ned Ned the Ned?

FancyShark

Hold up. Ned was as loyal as a puppy

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

"The bad news is he was hit by a car and is now in a coma."

gellaho

George wearing head #47

LyraV

HOW MANY NEDS DO YOU KNOW?!!

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Before he thought his girlfriend was fucking the weird pale kid who only drinks vegetable juice.

FancyShark

I missed a helluva first act

gellaho

Ned's what had an application?

gellaho

It's telling that you called two full issues a first act

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Hahahah Ned has just been WAITING to bail on his insane girlfriend for some other country.

gellaho

George is phasing through reality again

Mordred, Nuclear Werewoof ☢🐺

Oh fuck you doing your modern WB (CW?) Dracula with Ned as Harker

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

No, Nanners. He's not GONE he's just not here.

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FancyShark

"Aveeeennnnnnggge meeeeeeeeeee...."

gellaho

Such a great use of the space

Mordred, Nuclear Werewoof ☢🐺

Why the fuck does Ned want to get out of the country so badly?

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Nancy, while an internship isnt exactly free of exploitation its hardly a trap.

FancyShark

Nancy, are you drunk?

Mordred, Nuclear Werewoof ☢🐺

Cue Mike Krosoczka "What's wrong with your FACE?"

gellaho

George found some lipstick

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

I think all the evenings stupid has baked Nancy's brain.

FancyShark

Gesundheit

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Because for a solid several hours she had to convince her dipshit friends and a random girl that vampires arent real and Gregor is just weird and has a disease.

gellaho

That's so Raven

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Id check on that translation but I dont give this enough credit to even begin to assume they got it right.

FancyShark

Gregor, you could at least get a different haircut

gellaho

George is frozen like that

Mordred, Nuclear Werewoof ☢🐺

He's got the Uchiha chicken butt

gellaho

You know industrial towns and their castles

FancyShark

"Sure, sweetie. Eastern Europe doesn't have any human traffickers or murderers. Have fun."

gellaho

That is one wide head

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

So......Nancy. You think its a good idea to follow your boyfriend to fucking Romania? For basically no reason?

A good Romanian old lady is made of five pumpkins and a very large potato.

Draw two dots for eyes, a mouth, and shes shaped like a grandma.

From Romania.

gellaho

Let's examine their detective skills. They are looking for Ned Nickerson

FancyShark

And the investigation comes to a close

gellaho

Sign the guest book

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Oh well. Who's up for skiing and Romanian hot dogs?

FancyShark

HAHAHAHA

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Brendan

Please include you social security number and dog's name

FancyShark

Incredible

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Hahahahah Sho, you drew that but cant draw a good hand.

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-- Ned

FancyShark

R4P

R4P

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

"N.....NANCY?! What the fuck are you doing in Romania? This....Nancy we talked about boundaries."

gellaho

There's my Joe

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

KARATE KIIIIIIIIICK!

FancyShark

Our boy's home

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FancyShark

No notes

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Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

"Yeah Joe but we have to pay for that."

FancyShark

That's a level of reaction you'd normally save for a murder

gellaho

Castel Corb

LyraV

she haunts me

LyraV

A van made of this comic would be a nightmare.

gellaho

If "Castel Corb" means "Castle of the Raven," how does "Varf Negru" mean "Raven's Peak?"

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Im beginning to think the writer doesnt speak even a little Romanian.

gellaho

Like how Sho doesn't speak English?

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Almost exactly like how Sho doesnt speak English.

FancyShark

Their dictionary is a napkin with the word "raven" scribbled on it

gellaho

Really needed to be a two page spread

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Its not like they could possibly have like......used some kind of thinking machine to look up words in Romanian or anythinng. That would require some kind of global data network.

FancyShark

"We don't know he's being held prisoner, but I did say it was a trap."

gellaho

All of these siblings are too close

gellaho

Impossible technology for 2011

FancyShark

They got that aspect of manga right

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Siblings who were trying to murder one another recently.

Because one was convinced the other was a vampire.

FancyShark

Still standard manga

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Manga as fuck, really.

gellaho

You know how cable cars lift off

FancyShark

Make the platform the same color as the background. Thanks, Sho!

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Was........Sho? I dont think this needs to be an action sequence.

gellaho

Nancy needs to work on her super powers

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Was Sho traumatized as a child by a cable car incident?

Just drop Joe. He'll be fine.

FancyShark

Sho just thinks cable cars are cool because they're so fast

gellaho

If you were wondering why this is Joe's fault

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Oh that makes sense.

gellaho

FancyShark

ohhhhh

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Most things are Joe's fault when they arent Franks fault.

FancyShark

Is this the moment they stop fighting?

Did a cable car acceleration repair their bond?

gellaho

Saved by the strength of two diseased teens

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

I, personally, would drop my brother off a cable car in a heartbeat.

FancyShark

Nancy is ripped in half like a piece of bread

gellaho

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

"Are going to do the very easy tast of combining the physical strength of like four people to save the two dipshits youre holding on to."

gellaho

What is Nancy pointing at?

Who can say

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Also it looked like it just almost got JOE killed.

And maybe Frank.

Assuming Nancy dropped them both.

And they didnt land on a Romanian alpaca or something.

FancyShark

Or acres and acres of snow

gellaho

Emotions are hard

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

KISS!

FancyShark

KISS

gellaho

Exclamation points

Badger, Gun-Tutting Cardinal

GIF

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Wait, Nancy why did you bring these two?

Why are you even HERE?

gellaho

Hello?

FancyShark

GIF

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Did they foot the bill for the plane ticket?

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

GIF

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FancyShark

Ned's a cat demon?

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

It's manga so hes probably a secret wolf boy.

gellaho

I thought somebody drew with pencil on this

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Nancy's nose gets more and more of a suggestion as Sho loses his remaining art fucks.

gellaho

But that's printed on there

FancyShark

hahaha

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

lol

FancyShark

Sho tried the "frustration cloud" thing and gave up at a doodle

Badger, Gun-Tutting Cardinal

Beginning to think Sho gave up in general on this one

gellaho

Nancy out here criticizing the writing

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

The colorist just overlooked it.

HAhahah Nancy you fuckhead. You came all the way to Romania to embarass your boyfriend at work.

FancyShark

If it's a call center, you can absolutely set fire to the place. The employees will thank you

LyraV

It looks like a bunch of crudely drawn squares and rectangles.

gellaho

The person on the left is a different human being than the one on the right

FancyShark

Yep, typical call center effect

gellaho

Your nightmares seem kind of boring

LyraV

No no I get it now, I once took some fairly powerful microdot acid and overall it was a great experience but at one point I did walk downstairs into the kitchen and dropped to my knees and whispered 'there's too many squares' then went back upstairs. It looked a lot like this, maybe the same thing happened to Sho while they were 'working' on this.

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

Yeah I worked in one for a while. Good commission and coworkers but working to sell cable? God.

gellaho

Villains love chairs

FancyShark

I'd crime for a good chair

gellaho

"Welcome to the Olive Garden"

Badger, Gun-Tutting Cardinal

And then Joe pile drives him into the glass tabletop

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

"Hi I'm Gregor and Garina's dad. I just LOOK sinister."

"Guess who Gregor takes after?"

LyraV

Hey me too! I sold timeshares to Dollywood, and directv...sigh then one time doing surveys

FancyShark

"Better TABLE any calls for the day!"

LyraV

they were all awful jobs

gellaho

Tell them about the unlimited bread sticks, brother!

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

I was selling upgrades for Time Warner, I worked for an independent contractor and they were actually pretty cool.

FancyShark

"I'm bitter that you left me to run a massive international enterprise, brother"

gellaho

That's not how you do the Vulcan salute, Nancy

gellaho

I think there are supposed to be guards behind them

But Sho forgot

Paws of a Goose Flippant Sausage

"Gregor, how could you leave me to support our mother and mentally ill sisters on my own? This hotel doesnt run itself!"