Joe/Iola or Joe/Vanessa

[tomswift2002]

Vanessa enters the series in book #69 Mayhem In Motion.

[White Eagle]

Yeah, and it seems like every time Frank starts to like someone else, she's evil. But, On topic, it's hard to chose becuase you never really saw Iola and Joe in the casefiles.

They were a great pair in the originals, though

[JoeHardyRocks]

Who is Vanessa?

[mystery chick 901]

Who is Vanessa?

Vanessa Bender, she's Joe's girlfriend in the casefiles.

[JoeHardyRocks]

I thought Iola was Joe's girlfriend?

[Kerin]

I thought Iola was Joe's girlfriend?

She was in the orginals, but they kinda wrote her out of the casefiles.I won't come right out and say what happened in the books, so as not to spoil it.
But she was only in the very first casefile book, but after that she wasn't in htem anymore.

[SDLagent]

You don't have to do much research to find out what happened to Iola, it's even in the Network Database of this site!

[JoeHardyRocks]

I  already know what happened to her. Was it in Dead on Target?

[SDLagent]

Then why did you ask? 

[NZone]

  I loved the fight between Iola 4 and Vanessa at the end of Dead Of Night.

Were there 4 Iola clones? I know there was one in #4 but when were the other two? (besides DON)

[tomswift2002]

In the Casefiles, that Assassins loved to torment Joe with Iola.  Whenever Joe was up against the Assassins, the Assassins would always tell him that they were going to get some else he liked the same way they got Iola, and he would always ask why and where she was.  And I remember they made a couple of copies of her.  In Dead Of Night, that would've been Iola3 at least.

[NZone]

Ok, thanks

[Olivia]

I haven't read enough Casefiles, but I have to say that I have a bias for Iola. I do like the edge her absence gave the series (as some of you has mentioned), so in my world they end up together in the end when they're old and the HBs are not on as many intense cases lol. Half-kidding.

I'll just have to see about Vanessa. Maybe she just worked better in the Casefiles, but imagine her in the Originals or Digests. Again, I can't picture it because I don't really know this character.

[bozonessinc]

I've read about 6 casefiles, and one I did read had Vanessa playing one of the biggest roles. In book 102 WRONG SIDE OF the law she plays a huge role.. Here is a little excerpt:

"Vanessa Bender, Joe's girlfriend, was practically a profressional at creating computer graph-ics, and she worked out of her mother's animation studio.

Joe nodded, "I guess since she talked to you, she's changed her plans a little. She's going to volunteer with a teen program in town. It's called Hands to Help."

"Oh?" Callie Said. I've heard of them. They work with delinquents, right?"" (COPYRIGHT OF SIMON AND SCHUSTER)

[003Robin457]

I never read any with Venessa but I still say Iola is better!