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Jughead #9 covers are beautiful!

Started by nuageo, May 10, 2016, 04:57:47 PM

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irishmoxie

I had a hard time following the new Jughead stories. I thought they were confusing compared to reboot Archie which is easy to follow. I may have to read them though since Ryan North is saying he's continuing with the same story.

DeCarlo Rules

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Quote from: irishmoxie on May 12, 2016, 05:06:59 PM
Continuity could mean a continuous storyline across multiple issues. Consistency could mean the same 5 page comedic stories with a clear resolution at the end--- basically the old Archie. When you picked up a digest, you knew pretty much what you were getting i.e. comfort food.

Hooray for comfort food!

One thing that really annoys me is when I go to a restaurant specifically because I know they have a certain type of food I like, but if I get there and they say "Sorry, we're only serving __________ at this time", I just turn around and leave rather than just take whatever they're offering. The reason I went THERE was to get what I was expecting, not whatever they happened to want to sell me when I got there.

On the other hand, if I want to read grounded, reality-based, continuity-driven comics I'd be going somewhere else for them. To me the words "Archie" and "reality" don't even belong in the same sentence together. If I wanted grounded, reality-based continuity stories I'd probably be looking for them on television, because that's one of the things that television is really good at (just don't ask them to adapt any comic books). Absent of any other elements, television would do a much better job of convincing me of its fictional reality. Comics are good at other things. They're better most of the time (because they've been doing it longer) than television and movies at creating fictional universes that aren't realistic, but still operate by their own internal logic or set of rules -- and those rules are not limited by anything but the writers' and artists' imaginations, or if working on previously established characters, by rules handed down like the passing of a torch. On occasion they can bend or break those previously-established rules, if it serves the story and makes it more entertaining. They can also mess it up if they don't know what they're doing, or if what they're trying to do isn't worth doing and is nothing more than change for change itself -- just an attempt to make something into something else, as different as possible. Fantasy and slapstick cartoon comedy are a couple of the things that comics can do as well, or more often better, than any other medium. Mundane reality, not so much. Not that it's impossible, but the specific subject matter chosen better be particularly compelling, and the writing and artwork better be damn convincing.

Vespa

I've  always really like the dynamic between Jughead and Sabrina in the earlier Archie comics .


The covers look amazing  I have one set as my phone back round .


I wonder if Ryan North is going to do that thing where he puts little sentences in between the panels like he did in Adventure time  and  Squirrel-Girl ?

Tokyo

Juggie and Sabrina? Oh, I can dig that! I never liked Harvey much and I like Ethel better with Moose. Those covers are really nice.

DeCarlo Rules

Quote from: Tokyo on June 04, 2016, 03:00:28 AM
Juggie and Sabrina? Oh, I can dig that! I never liked Harvey much and I like Ethel better with Moose. Those covers are really nice.

Ethel with Moose??  But then he'd have no excuse to beat guys up...? Or he'd just be beating Jughead up on a regular basis, if Ethel kept chasing him.

60sBettyandReggie

Quote from: Tokyo on June 04, 2016, 03:00:28 AM
Juggie and Sabrina? Oh, I can dig that! I never liked Harvey much and I like Ethel better with Moose. Those covers are really nice.


That's an interesting pair considering Moose is a jock and Midge is the "cheerleader type". And you know how jocks and cheerleaders go together  ::) . Ethel however, is far from being his type. But it definitely would be interesting seeing those  two together. His other jock buddies couldn't make fun of them because Moose would beat them up if they did.

Captain Jetpack

Derek Charm cover for me.


I like Sabrina, & her full profile view is scarcely seen.
Pie is my favorite Vitamin.

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