| | Another truely great comics character is Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty's Ms. Tree.
Collins, whose work I have praised elsewhere, is, like Ayn Rand, a fan of Mickey Spillane (Mike Hammer, I, the Jury). Collins, however, is not just a fan but lists Spillane as his greatest literary influence.
Ms. Tree has often been described as a female Mike Hammer. She is as hard-boiled as they come and Collin's intelligent scripts touch on very real and often controversial topics. Ms. Tree has taken on organized crime, serial child killers, bombers of abortion clinics and many other criminal types. And she doesn't waste time waiting for the legal system to work its own often flawed version of justice. She, like Mike Hammer before her, often takes on the role of "I, the Jury" meting out justice in her own indomitable fashion. And, of course, this puts her in a contentious relationship with local law enforcement.
You can read more about Ms. Tree here and here.
(Edited by Bob Palin on 11/14, 10:30am)
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