Monday, November 1, 2021

HUNTER'S MOON Connie Lamb as Ms. Tree Detective


This is for :iconvladen13:'s Hunters Moon 2021 for Halloween there was a party next to an old graveyard.   Things are getting weird for my OCs and have been grabbed by some mysterious force.  It seems that even the dead are party poopers.

This is my German Shepard OC Confiserie "Connie" Lamb went dressed  as Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty's hard boiled detective comic book Ms. Tree and it went as well.  Things are bad when even police officers are not safe from whatever happening in the cemetery.

Ms. Tree is a comic book series named for its lead character, co-created by writer Max Allan Collins and artist Terry Beatty.

The title character is Michael Tree, a female private detective who takes over her husband's investigation business when he is murdered. In her first case, she captures the murderer and discovers his link to the Muerta organized crime family.

Ms. Tree's dead husband was named Michael Tree, the joke being that after the marriage they had the same name. (The female main character's real first name actually is Michael; when friends want to irritate her they deliberately mispronounce it as "Michelle." Michael Tree hates being called Michelle.) Series creator/writer Max Allan Collins makes no secret of the fact that Ms. Tree was inspired by Velda, Mike Hammer's secretary, a stacked, gun carrying, six-foot tall brunette and Mike's lover, who was almost as tough as he was. The basic premise of Ms. Tree was, "What if Velda and Mike Hammer eventually got married, and on their honeymoon he was murdered?"

Throughout the series, in addition to isolated cases that often touch on social issues of the day, Ms. Tree's vendetta against the Muerta family is a major plot thread. Her methods often include deadly violence, which she uses with little hesitation. In contrast to genre conventions, she faces serious consequences throughout the series for these violent actions including arrest, imprisonment, commitment to a mental hospital, and involuntary medication.

In another genre divergence, the male Michael Tree's son, Mike Jr. (of course), inadvertently falls in love with the daughter of the Muerta matron. The female Michael disapproves of this arrangement, but respects her stepson's decision while observing with amusement the Muerta matron's futile attempts to discourage it. To Ms. Tree's shock, when the relationship grows enough to make marriage probable, the Muerta family decides Mike's stepmother is now family and initiates a reconciliation with her while going legit.

In addition, Michael is impregnated by an old flame who is manipulating her to kill his wife. She decides to keep the baby, creating a unique series of adventures of this homicidal PI fighting off criminals even while dealing with a full term pregnancy, while the mob family she hates moves to protect her in their own way.


 

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