I wanted to put this in news, but I don't think I have the access to.

Anyway, here's a recent interview with Archie Comics President Mike Pellerito. Lots of stuff in here.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=32394

Wow, he seems really excited and postive about the new Goldwater taking over and changing things.  Kind of a contrast from a past interevew from a few years ago from someone else I saw recently where it was like souless droning with stuff like "this comic is for 11 year old girls only" being strongly impled that was kind of off putting.  LOL.  It's good that morale seems up and there are now enthusiatic people who want to do new things again.  lol

He was a really nice guy, but he was just upset that we were putting Kevin in the books. And I said, "Well, what's the big deal?" He said, "It's going to be the sex." I was like, "Sex? What do you mean?" And he told me "Now that Kevin's here, there's going to be all this sex in the books." And I just said, "Look, you don't sound like a kid to me . You sound like an adult. How many sex scenes have you ever seen in an Archie comic book?"

"None."

I found this pretty funny. "It's going to be the sex."  That's almost as bad as, "All your base are belong to us."  That should be a meme or something.  There's definitley a few nutjobs who read Archie Comics.  lol

The thing I find troubling though is are they really rebooting Sonic continuity completely?  I dunno, I don't read it anymore, but one of the draws to that comic I think was the the 20 year continuity.  The only other comics with continuity like that out there are super hero comics, you have have nothing like that anywhere else with characters like Sonic.  Plus I'm really big on the characters that transitioned over from the saturday morning cartoon.  Theyr'e a lot more compelling to me than any of Sega Japan's characters.  I thought the point to having the other Sonic titles was to accomplish that.

What, no question about giving a certain Features Editor of Archie Comic Publications a raise?

Anyway, really liked the interview and I like his approach as an editor. "I've got this idea, here it is and who wants to do it?" And his ideas have been pretty good for the most part.



Kevin, I can't really comment on since I haven't read anything about him (where I live, only Double Digests and maybe whenever someone feels like putting The Married Life on a magazine shelf). But he seems like he's having a positive impact and he's selling. Can't really argue with that.

And the guy with the wrong idea about sex happening in Archie comics, did spring a good idea to mind. I think it would be a great story to have a teen pregnancy story. Archie, in a recent double digest, touched on drinking, but I'm sure that teen pregnancy hasn't been addressed.

Fantastic! It's great for the forum have a chance to interview the man in charge of things: what a dream job. 

I expect a future story on teen pregnancy in the Archies, but must be of a lighter nature being a comic book meant to make people laugh. More on the lines of the movie Juno, MTV's 16 and Pregnant, Teen Mom show, and Murphy Brown in the 1990s also addressed the subject of unplanned motherhood.

Good thing the Archies finally touched on teen drinking, to send a message on why one wait until they are 21 or mature enough at least.