The Hardy Boys get Extreme!™

The Hardy Boys have been in need of an image overhaul ever since that unfortunate peeping-tom conviction. Gone are the days of titles like “The Missing Chums” and “The Mystery of Cabin Island.” Now they aren’t even books, they are graphic novels. Check out #8 in the series, the just released Board to Death. Sure it looks like it was drawn in the 80’s, but it actually just came out this month. I wonder if the fact that they were riding coffin shaped boards was a coincidence or a tribute to the fact that Frank and Joe Hardy are old school. I wonder if Chet get’s hit in the solar plexus? I wonder what a solar plexus is?

Bored to Death.

Here’s the plot synopsis, from FYE.

Frank and Joe Hardy go undercover at major skateboarding contest in Venice, California, to find out which competitor is trying to kill off the competition, but before the killer discovers their real mission, the undercover brothers must sort through the list of suspects and solve the mystery. Simultaneous.

Simultaneous? Simultaneous what?

Here’s the plot synopsis, from the publisher Papercutz:

The brothers Frank and Joe Hardy go undercover at a major skateboarding contest in Venice, California to find out which competitor is trying to kill off the competition–literally? The list of suspects includes Dex Thom, a skilled skateboarder whose parents wanted him to be a musical prodigy, the Pink Shadow, a girl of mystery, and her equally secretive trainer, Mr. Miyagi, and the Wraith, a dark and brooding young man. Will Frank and Joe solve the mystery before the killer discovers their real mission–and eliminates them?!

Mr. Miyagi is a suspect? What about the Karate kid? The guy in the blue suit appears to be riding a board that must be eight feet long, and warped to boot.