Okay, here we go...
Darlene Munroe (the lady in the first panel, just so we're clear), first appeared in Pulp Horrorshow vol. 1 #...it was somewhere in the 4-6 arc. She was a (honest) New York Detective with a nose for the supernatural who was brought in by the (corrupt Ortex controlled) Locke City Police Department specifically to track down the "criminal" known as the Clown. She made a couple of one page appearances back in the olde Xerox Comix days, and that was it.
Flash forward to the debut of "The Hot Fudge Sundae Adventure Club". The original group consisted of Cactus Joe the Clown, Pengy Penguin, Los Super Hip Bros, El Exclamation Point!, and a mysterious female character in an iron mask named Agent "?". In HFSAC 7, Agent "?" shed her mask (and everything else for that matter) for the first time when she and the Clown had a brief fling while floating helplessly in the abyss. In HFSAC 8 we discover that Agent ? is actually Detective Darlene Munroe, and we learn her whole history, including how she is also a Waterbearer Agent, a secret organization of peacekeepers who patrol our solar system. Agent ? is kicked out of the Waterbearers, gets a new set of Liquid Metal Armor, and becomes Agent D. Although originally I thought she was gonna be the Clown's Love Interest, something weird happened and somehow she fell in love with El Exclamation Point! instead. This drove a bit of a wedge into HFSAC, creating tension between the Clown and the new Agent D/EEP! Power Couple, and generally led to the breakup of the original version of HFSAC.
El Exclamation Point!, Agent D, and just about every geek hero I had created formed a super-Super Group called The Skull Mob (the original version, the one that appears in the current comics is the second version). The purpose of the Skull Mob was to wipe out all of the Evils plaguing TORCverse Earth. Unfortunately, the Skull Mob launched a full-on assault on the Ortex Corporation and were completely wiped out. El Exclamation Point! was killed, and Agent D was the only survivor (well, kinda, King Dark survived by hiding a small portion of his Darkness Body inside a corpse, Spookshow survived cause he was already a ghost, and the Puzzelor survived because... honestly I don't know. The Puzzelor is a mystery to me). Obviously, Darlene Munroe did not escape unscathed. She lost an arm (why do my characters always lose their Left Arm? What's up with that?), and has a scar over her left eye. She ultimately hid in the Community, disguising herself as "Mr. Mystery" (an intentional Gender Misnomer).
Occasionally when Darlene needed to help people, she would disguise herself as El Exclamation Point!, both as an homage to her dead lover, and also as a way to keep the spirit of the old Skull Mob alive. If you read SDF #4 or 5 (can't remember which), then you will she her appear as El Exclamation Point! and save the children of the Community.
So, that's her story.
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