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DeCarlo Rules

Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on February 23, 2017, 01:28:32 PM
I can't remember, is the op of this thread the same person who got mad at us because we wouldn't post 24 hours a day?She was logged in all day and expected us to do the same. She got pissed off and said she was never coming back again. Maybe it was another person, can't remember.

I think you might be thinking of Midge. She seemed excited to discover that an Archie fan forum existed, and posted a lot for a little while, but then quickly became disillusioned when there wasn't enough daily activity to meet her level of enthusiasm.

steveinthecity

Quote from: kassandralove on February 23, 2017, 11:29:36 PM
I think forums are fairly old style and it's hard to go through it but I have this app called Tapatalk and it makes everything SO much easier and it's the only way I go on here it's fast and effective


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
These "old" style forums do allow people to have actual discussions beyond just the "hit and run" comments that seem so popular other places.  There's advantages to this type of site beyond "look at me, 'like' me" so common elsewhere.
Comics!

DeCarlo Rules

Quote from: steveinthecity on February 24, 2017, 04:18:39 AM
Quote from: kassandralove on February 23, 2017, 11:29:36 PM
I think forums are fairly old style and it's hard to go through it but I have this app called Tapatalk and it makes everything SO much easier and it's the only way I go on here it's fast and effective


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
These "old" style forums do allow people to have actual discussions beyond just the "hit and run" comments that seem so popular other places.  There's advantages to this type of site beyond "look at me, 'like' me" so common elsewhere.

Totally agree, Steve. I have zero interest in posting 140-character shout-outs, so I've never had a Facebook account, and probably never will.

steveinthecity

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on February 24, 2017, 06:13:29 AM
Quote from: steveinthecity on February 24, 2017, 04:18:39 AM
Quote from: kassandralove on February 23, 2017, 11:29:36 PM
I think forums are fairly old style and it's hard to go through it but I have this app called Tapatalk and it makes everything SO much easier and it's the only way I go on here it's fast and effective


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
These "old" style forums do allow people to have actual discussions beyond just the "hit and run" comments that seem so popular other places.  There's advantages to this type of site beyond "look at me, 'like' me" so common elsewhere.

Totally agree, Steve. I have zero interest in posting 140-character shout-outs, so I've never had a Facebook account, and probably never will.
I see what you did there.  A 141 character post.  Quite clever and subversive some might argue.   ;)




:D
Comics!

60sBettyandReggie

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on February 23, 2017, 11:55:41 PM
Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on February 23, 2017, 01:28:32 PM
I can't remember, is the op of this thread the same person who got mad at us because we wouldn't post 24 hours a day?She was logged in all day and expected us to do the same. She got pissed off and said she was never coming back again. Maybe it was another person, can't remember.

I think you might be thinking of Midge. She seemed excited to discover that an Archie fan forum existed, and posted a lot for a little while, but then quickly became disillusioned when there wasn't enough daily activity to meet her level of enthusiasm.
Oh, yeah it was probably her. I don't remember her user name but I remember how upset she was. It was weird.

Shuester

I lurked around this site for about two months before the temporary shutdown happened. I'm really glad I became interested in the site then, because all of the information was enough to get me interested and keep scrolling for more.
If I had just discovered the site now, though, I don't know how long I would have stayed. Long conversations about characters and historical comics that are fascinating and have input from many users are much less frequent on the new site than the old one. I understand that it's no one's fault, and of course all of those conversations took years to develop. But if I hadn't found the site when it was full of lively discussions, I don't know that I would have eventually made an account.

Jabroniville

Quote from: Shuester on February 27, 2017, 03:39:36 AM
I lurked around this site for about two months before the temporary shutdown happened. I'm really glad I became interested in the site then, because all of the information was enough to get me interested and keep scrolling for more.
If I had just discovered the site now, though, I don't know how long I would have stayed. Long conversations about characters and historical comics that are fascinating and have input from many users are much less frequent on the new site than the old one. I understand that it's no one's fault, and of course all of those conversations took years to develop. But if I hadn't found the site when it was full of lively discussions, I don't know that I would have eventually made an account.
Yeah, it was really tragic to lose the site because nobody was backing anything up. It was a really amateur-hour thing.

I used to love coming here a lot. I'd actually look up stuff every day, find old posts, and go on my trademark long-winded rants. Unfortunately, a lot of the "energy" to do that has faded. Posters like Zach Ziggster don't seem to be around- he was good people.  Even Mark's insanely-long threads about his old mall or his constantly-dying pets at least held SOME interest, but those are gone. The idea of arguing on the internet loses its luster now that I'm in my mid-30s and don't feel like arguing with people who don't seem like they can read or write properly, either, and we seem to have a lot more of those types all of a sudden.

carrotz


It was no one's fault the old forum died, but losing eleven years of threads makes the new forum feel second best. It is 2006 all over again, except without the unity, innocence and optimism.


irishmoxie

Quote from: carrotz on March 02, 2017, 05:57:24 AM

It was no one's fault the old forum died, but losing eleven years of threads makes the new forum feel second best. It is 2006 all over again, except without the unity, innocence and optimism.


Oh to be back in 2006, when things were simple.

DeCarlo Rules

My posting has actually gone down just since RIVERDALE aired.

Hate to say it, but it's beginning to feel like just another board for TV show discussions.  :(

JonInIowaCity

Let's talk about the comics and digests then. What comic book did you last enjoy from Archie Comics?

VintageJon

I recently read the latest Betty and Veronica 1&2 and enjoyed them;  My only note of criticism being that the feud between the two seemed to escalate pretty quickly.  Having said that, I have a teenage daughter and well, that is pretty much how those things actually go!  On the other hand it is a 3 issue story so I guess things need to move quickly. 


Do you have a favourite Archie story that shouldn't be memorable but for some reason just sticks with you?


I have one, for some reason I can remember every single panel.


Anyway here it goes.  Veronica comments that both Archie and Reggie have put on some pounds and she is unimpressed!  It is decided that the boy who loses the most weight gets to date her.  Reggie, in his malevolent genius has a wide array of fast food delivered to Archie's door which he of course consumes. 
The day of the competition comes up and Archie has gotten big!  He cleverly decides to throw on Fred's clothing (XXXL apparently) creating the illusion of being underweight.  He wins Veronica, flusters Reggie and gets some more free food.  Classic.

DeCarlo Rules

Quote from: JonInIowaCity on March 03, 2017, 10:44:39 AM
Let's talk about the comics and digests then. What comic book did you last enjoy from Archie Comics?

B&V Friends Comics Annual #253. I subscribe to all the digests. I still really enjoy all the issues of B&V Friends and Betty and Veronica digests (my top two, respectively), and most issues of Jughead & Archie are still worth the money to me. Recently I haven't been enjoying the Archie and World of Archie digests as much, so I'm letting those subscriptions lapse and will only buy them FNO when there's a new story (or reprint) of special interest. Maybe it's just too much Archie for me - it's overkill. I'm kind of on the fence about Archie's Funhouse (it tends to vary from one issue to another, as does World of Archie), but I've still got a number of issues left in my subscription before having to decide whether to keep it or not.

I'm sort of partial to keeping on with Archie's Funhouse as I've got a nearly complete set of those (still missing one), and it's only six times a year anyway. I tend to enjoy the reprinted stories featuring Reggie, Dilton, Ethel, Nancy or Chuck more than just straight Archie stories, and most of those are in either Funhouse or WoA (it varies), but I feel shortchanged when they stick in 15 pages of Little Archie (this happens in Jughead & Archie with regularity too, but it's more than counterbalanced with enough good Jughead stories by Samm Schwartz, Fernando Ruiz, or Boldman & Lindsey in each issue).

I do wish they'd reprint more older stories (Silver/Bronze Age) and more obscure characters like Bingo Wilkin, the Madhouse Glads, etc., just for some variety. One of the reasons I like the two B&V digests so much is that they've reliably got either Sabrina or Josie reprints, and frequently Cheryl Blossom reprints as well. What about some reprints of Katy Keene stories from the 1980s? I don't think I've ever seen any in the digests so far.

I wish they could double the number of pages of new stories in the digests. Some more interesting stories could be done with the characters, but they'd require more than 5 pages, or they could even let some of the non-star players get a 5-page solo story every so often. I feel like there are all these great unused supporting characters out there just going to waste because there really isn't enough room in 5 page story that has to feature the main characters every issue. I'd love to see Veronica's cousins Harper or Marcy, or some of the New Kids get meatier parts in the stories -- but as it stands right now, there just isn't enough room or enough pages a year to squeeze them in on a regular basis. In a few years, none of these characters will even be remembered by digest readers, if they aren't forgotten already. What am I saying? With only 240 pages a year of new material being generated by Dan Parent right now, they won't have any stories to fill the digests of five years in the future. Or maybe they'll be down to only a couple of bimonthly digest titles by then.

JUGHEAD is the only other comic that they're putting out right now that I'm getting anything out of, but I don't expect that situation will last much longer, since they've already announced that they're replacing Ryan North on the writing. Derek Charm comes the closest of all the artists on New Riverdale comics to actually being a cartoonist. The opening pages of the issue where the gang were all playing the racing videogame almost fooled me that Charm was slowly adjusting his style more towards the cartoony side, but then he had to spoil it by going back to more of a realistic style - it was just for the characters as they appeared inside the game. I liked Ian Flynn's writing on Mega Man and I liked him on New Crusaders, but can he write a funny JUGHEAD story? I suspect he'll be doing most of the work because his page rate is cheaper than Mark Waid's -- I think Waid is just there to ride herd on the continuity and his name is being used to attract the readers who already like his writing on ARCHIE.



steveinthecity

Quote from: carrotz on March 02, 2017, 05:57:24 AM

It was no one's fault the old forum died, but losing eleven years of threads makes the new forum feel second best. It is 2006 all over again, except without the unity, innocence and optimism.
I'm fairly certain some fault can be found.  We lost a great amount of info, plus contributing members like Frank, Forsythe, Captain Hero, Chuck, and Greg who are still involved in the hobby.
Comics!

irishmoxie

Quote from: steveinthecity on March 04, 2017, 05:27:38 AM
Quote from: carrotz on March 02, 2017, 05:57:24 AM

It was no one's fault the old forum died, but losing eleven years of threads makes the new forum feel second best. It is 2006 all over again, except without the unity, innocence and optimism.
I'm fairly certain some fault can be found.  We lost a great amount of info, plus contributing members like Frank, Forsythe, Captain Hero, Chuck, and Greg who are still involved in the hobby.


Yeah where did all these Archie historians go? Are they still interested in Archie? Are they posting somewhere else? Or is there just nothing to say now that ACP puts out so little Classic Archie.

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