WHAT WOULD VELMA DO? is written by my friend Shaenon Garrity, whose name is no doubt familiar to you all*. It’s just what it says on the title: a book about Velma, why she’s so awesome, and why you should be just like her. I don’t really think of myself as a Velma, per se — the archetypes don’t really line up for me, I think — but I do like it when Shaenon gets to pay her bills, so check the book out.
*If it’s not: she wrote the Narbonic and Skin Horse webcomics, did the covers for FROZEN DREAMS and TINSEL RAIN, and is a general good egg.
Pull Mindy Kaeling’s face off?
Velma seems smart because the only people we have to compare her to are all morons. Otherwise, why would it take them so long to solve identical cases? How many times did Those Darn Kids uncover a plot to scare people away from a particular building?
Shaggy has an excuse. He is permanently under the influence of a significant dose of THC, which he receives every time Fred throws him a Scooby Snack. Fred wears an ascot, so we know there’s nothing going upstairs there. Daphne hangs around with a stoner and a giant talking dog and doesn’t think it’s all that unusual. That leaves Velma. You would think that a person as smart as her would be able to recognize the look and distinctive scent of latex after seeing so many masks. But you would be wrong.
Answer now and answer true, does she serialize a cartoon character?
*Sexualize
Who? Shaenon? Of course she didn’t! As far as I’ve seen, this book is teenager-appropriate, by our standards.