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Riverdale Podcast - Top 5!

Started by playtape, April 24, 2016, 08:48:51 AM

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GingerGal

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 26, 2016, 01:44:32 PM
Quote from: GingerGal on April 25, 2016, 07:49:47 PM
But they have been around for 75 years which I would think has made them a lot of money over those many years. What have they done with all that money?

When times were good, I'm thinking mostly limousines, yachts and summer homes in the Hamptons.   ;)
Living the life of The Lodges.

DeCarlo Rules

I meant to spend some more time thinking about this... what would be my favorite characters (not in the core five), IF we were limiting it to just the Archie-centric titles, and eliminating non-Riverdale characters like Sabrina, Josie, That Wilkin Boy, Madhouse Glads, Wilbur, Ginger, Katy Keene, Jinx, etc. ?  But then I kind of got busy and distracted by some tangential conversations on in this thread, until I finally got around to listening to this week's Riverdale Podcast, and Jonathan read everyone's lists.

And I couldn't really whittle it down to just five, but I did come up with a list of ten, which I refuse to rank in any order.

Trula Twyst
Marcy McDermott
Jellybean Jones
January McAndrews
Shrill
Wendy Weatherbee
DeDe Diaz
Toni Topaz
Cheryl Blossom
Midge Klump

BettyReggie

Here's another list of mine
1-🍁-Harper Lodge
2-🐚 Bernadette who dated Reggie in the New Look series
3-🌟-Brandy who was friends with Betty. She had multiply colored hair. She was only in a few stories.
4-⚡-Billy who was Betty when she was changed into a guy
5-💕-Bingo Wilkin

JonInIowaCity

I finally listened to yesterday's Riverdale Podcast. It was fun hearing Jonathan read out everyone's Top 5 lists.

DeCarlo Rules

Quote from: BettyReggie on May 01, 2016, 10:07:10 AM
Here's another list of mine
1-🍁-Harper Lodge
2-🐚 Bernadette who dated Reggie in the New Look series
3-🌟-Brandy who was friends with Betty. She had multiply colored hair. She was only in a few stories.
4-⚡-Billy who was Betty when she was changed into a guy
5-💕-Bingo Wilkin

Harper! Wow, I can't believe I didn't think of Harper. I think I'd have to get her on my top ten list, so I'd replace... mmm... I guess maybe DeDe Diaz (because she's kind of similar to Wendy Weatherbee) with Harper instead.

I don't think I ever read that New Look story with Reggie (because it was never reprinted in a trade paperback like the New Look stories that came before it, and neither was the one with Betty playing baseball). I never even heard of Brandy (I guess somewhere I must have read about Bernadette being in that story with Reggie, but I don't know anything about her, just her name). I wasn't that crazy about most of the New Look stories anyway. Probably the best one I read was "Bad Boy Trouble", and "Breakup Blues" with Midge and Moose wasn't too bad either, I guess. I'm glad they didn't make a lot of those, though. Bingo Wilkin's great, and so is Samantha Smythe. So is Fran the Fan from the Madhouse Glads (she's the best character in it). I wish they'd reprint more of those stories in the digests, and some Katy Keene stories from the 1980s, too.

I'm going to have to order a copy of that FCBD 2005 Betty and Veronica comic book that Jonathan reviewed that had the story with Katy Keene and Ginger and Cheryl and Marcy in it. Sounded like a great story.

JonInIowaCity

Here are some of my other favorites. I'm surprised that I didn't think of them before:

Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Amisha (I loved the idea of an Archie/Amisha/Valerie love triangle!)
Young Doctor Masters (one of those old characters who hooked me at the right moment)
Catfish Joe (same thing)

DeCarlo Rules

Quote from: JonInIowaCity on May 01, 2016, 01:58:44 PM
Here are some of my other favorites. I'm surprised that I didn't think of them before:

Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Amisha (I loved the idea of an Archie/Amisha/Valerie love triangle!)
Young Doctor Masters (one of those old characters who hooked me at the right moment)
Catfish Joe (same thing)

Were you the one who had Dotty & Ditto on your list? Man, you like the strange ones! Maybe I should have picked five Archie superheroes just to throw everyone for a loop.

Let's see...
MLJ/Mighty/Red (not Dark) Circle top five:

1. The Shield
2. The Web
3. The Black Hood
4. Fly Girl
5. POW-Girl
6. (honorable mention) Cat Girl

Archie/Amisha/Valerie triangle?  I thought it was the Archie/Amisha/Raj triangle? Maybe we'll find out in that Amisha story in the next (which was really supposed to be in the last, but they swapped it with Ginger's) episode of The Many Loves of Archie Andrews.

BettyReggie

Is the DeDe Diaz the girl who worked at the comic book store? She had a crush on Jughead. But Archie really liked her of course. The 3 of them went to the movies. I think that's her only story.

DeCarlo Rules

Quote from: BettyReggie on May 01, 2016, 03:03:26 PM
Is the DeDe Diaz the girl who worked at the comic book store? She had a crush on Jughead. But Archie really liked her of course. The 3 of them went to the movies. I think that's her only story.

I think DeDe Diaz was in two stories. The one you mentioned was the first one that introduced her as a character, and then there was one more, I think.

I mean, it's kind of hard to believe that Harper was only in a few stories. Only two where she had a major part, and then maybe another three where she had a small part in some scene. A lot of the characters on my top ten list didn't appear in that many stories (Toni Topaz, Wendy Weatherbee, Shrill, January McAndrews), but I like them because they were memorable characters and they're ones I look forward to seeing in any story, especially if they have a major part in it. I probably could have added another 5 if I thought about it a little, because they all sort of fall into that "only seen on a few occasions where they're not just in the background as part of the crowd" sort of category. Cricket O'Dell, Jackie Frost, Kumi Tanura, Noelle Claus. Even characters that are relatively well-known who made regular appearances "every so often" but usually aren't around, like Leroy Lodge or Souphead Jones. I read a story the other day where Jughead just casually mentions in passing that he talked to his cousin Knobhead  -- (???), who probably never even appeared in an actual story.

daren

Mr. Lodge
Leroy Lodge
Mr. Weatherbee
Ms. Grundy
Hot Dog

playtape

The episode is up! Thanks for being a part of the conversation, folks!




http://riverdalepodcast.com/day/2016/04/30

irishmoxie

#86
Quote from: playtape on May 02, 2016, 07:19:25 PM
The episode is up! Thanks for being a part of the conversation, folks!




http://riverdalepodcast.com/day/2016/04/30

we're podcast famous!

BettyReggie

#87
In the 2nd to last issue of Life With Archie, Archie had a daughter & son. I was just thinking about them. Did they have names? I remember the son was coming home from school when the daughter was on the phone with her friend Vera. Those kids were good characters. If they didn't end Life With Archie & just made him a father. I think that would have been great. And also if the series continued they could made Jughead's son their friend. He would be another great character. But they didn't give him a name.

irishmoxie

#88
Inspired by this thread I looked up some stories featuring Wendy Weatherbee who I'd never heard of before and read a really cute story about her and Dilton called "Instant Chemistry." She's the main focus of only 2 other stories which are written and drawn by Fernando Ruiz: "Hair Apparent" and "Double W Exposure." Has anyone read any others where's not just a cameo?

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