Judge Doom yellow-tinted glasses; he also carries a pocketwatch, as well as a cane which is revealed to be a saber in disguise, for use in emergency situations. During the writing process, Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman were unsure of whom to include as the villain in the plot of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". They wrote scripts that had either Jessica Rabbit or Baby Herman as the villain, but they made their final decision with newly created character Judge Doom. Price and Seaman based the scheme of Judge Doom of destroying Toontown for a freeway by a planned unproduced sequel of
Roger Rabbit in the soon-to-be-shot "Gone with the Wind", but he has also stolen the heart of Jessica. Investigating the affair, Eddie Valiant, Toon protector, finds himself up to his fedora in murder and Hollywood corruption. The book is neither a sequel nor a prequel to "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?" or the film adaptation by Disney. It is a spin-off story with the same characters, just different situations. Roger and Jessica both make small cameo appearances. In "Who Wacked Roger Rabbit?", the third novel in Gary K. Wolf's acclaimed "Roger Rabbit/Toontown" series, hard-boiled gumshoe Eddie Valiant lands a plum job as Gary