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Days we look foward to as Archie Fans.

Started by BettyReggie, March 30, 2016, 08:01:24 PM

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BettyReggie

#240

📖 12 Days till Archie #12 which comes on September /21/2016
🎤 🎹 🎼 🎧 🎸 🎶 🎤 19 Days till Josie & The Pussycats #1 - September /28/2016 🎤 🎹 🎼 🎧 🎸 🎶 🎤.
🎤 🎹 🎼 🎧 🎸 🎶 🎤 26 Days till Archie Meets The Ramones -October /5/2016 🎤 🎹 🎼 🎧 🎸 🎶 🎤.
🐒  27 Days till New York Comic Con which is October /6/2016
📖  33 days Away- World Of Archie Jumbo Comics Digest #63-October 12, 2016
📖  40 Days till Archie #13 & Archie Comics Double Digest #273- which comes out on October /19/2016               
📖  47 days Away Jughead & Archie Jumbo Comics Digest #23-October 26, 2016
📖  54 days Away Josie & The Pussycats #2 & Betty & Veronica Holiday Annual Digest #248 -November 02, 2016
💋  61 Days till B & V #3 November /9/2016
👜  80 Days till Cyber Monday which is November /28/2016
👓 102 Days till Archie Volume #2 which comes out on December /20/2016
💋 107 Days till Christmas.
🐒 114 Days till January 1st & hopefully we see Riverdale In January 2017.
🌴 162 Days till my 37th Birthday which is February 18th 2017
Archie Vol. 3 Paperback  – May 9, 2017 from Amazon & that's 242 days away. I can't wait. I'm going preorder it

BettyReggie

#241
Tomorrow September 10th 2016 will actually be a sad day for us Archie fans. It will be the first Saturday without The RiverDale Podcast 💔😣😞😱💔.

irishmoxie

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on August 18, 2016, 04:39:08 AM
Wednesday, August 24th, 2016 - BETTY AND VERONICA: GIRLS RULE! trade paperback is released to comic shops. Solicitation description follows...
QuoteAnything boys can do, girls can do better! The gals are taking center stage and showing the boys who's boss! Watch the girls as they challenge their male counterparts to a dance-off, show them what's what on the sports field and even fight crime! It's not just a battle of the sexes, but also a fun walk through history, highlighting important female figures throughout time standing up for what's right! This collection spotlights the girls of Riverdale, including Betty, Veronica, Nancy, Cheryl, Ethel, Ginger, Trula Twyst and Brigitte, featuring a special introduction by comics legend Gail Simone! In this collection, the girls really do rule!

$10.99/$11.99CAN
5 1/4 x 8"
224 pp, Full Color

I love B&V "theme" collection trade paperbacks. If they put out one every single month, I would buy it.

1) This is the first classic Archie trade paperback (which is in the ARCHIE & FRIENDS ALL-STARS format of 5.25" x 8") to be released by ACP in over a year. (I discount 1000 Page Comics Digests and Giant Comics Digests as true trade paperbacks, even though that's what ACP calls them. They are simply bargain-priced digest omnibuses, that reprint the same stories as appeared in the regular digests in the previous 2 or 3 months. They're a great money-saving value for those who don't follow the digest titles on a regular basis, but for regular digest consumers, they're redundant.)

2) The last previous thematic collection of classic Archie stories in trade paperback was ARCHIE CAMPFIRE STORIES, released in July 2015, so it's been a long drought for classic Archie TPBs since then. Several solicitations for classic Archie trade paperbacks have appeared since then, but none of them have actually made it to print.

3) The last previous BETTY & VERONICA trade paperback collection was SHOPPING SPREE, released in December 2014.

4) This particular B&V collection, GIRLS RULE, has an especially twisty history on its road to print publication. If you're a reader of digital, you may remember this Digital Exclusive collection which was first released way back in December 2012:

(original release cover, under the Archie Digital iVerse app.)

(re-release cover as PEP DIGITAL #29, under the Archie Digital Madefire app.)

It's interesting to compare the description of that DE release with the new trade paperback version:
QuotePEP Digital #29: B & V Friends Girls Rule!
111 pages!
Anything boys can do, girls can do better! The gals are taking center stage and showing the boys who's boss! Watch the girls as they challenge their male counterparts to a dance-off, show them what's what on the sports field and even fight crime! It's not just a battle of the sexes, but also a fun walk through history, highlighting important female figures throughout time, standing up for what's right! This 100+ page digital exclusive features the lovely ladies of Riverdale, including Betty, Veronica, Nancy, Cheryl, Ethel, Ginger, Trula Twyst and Brigitte! In this collection, the girls really do rule!
Hmm... very similar to the print release as solicited above, except for using B&V FRIENDS instead of BETTY & VERONICA in the title. However, it can't be exactly the same collection, because the digital exclusive release was only 111 pages, while the new TPB release is 224 pages, over twice the page count. What stories might be the same in both collections is anyone's guess.

This particular trade paperback collection has been solicited at least twice before, but it looks like it will finally arrive in stores on August 24th.


In case you or anyone else cares, the TPB and digital collection do share a lot of the same stories:


B&V Friends Girls Rule! (111 pages)

"Obstacle Coarse" 5 pg
"Action Girl" 5 pg Nancy story
"Cheer Factor" 11 pg Jughead story
"A Women's Lib-Rib" 5 pg That Wilkin Boy story
"Bicentennial Banter" 5 pg
"Charming Chuckle" 1 pg
"The New Girl in Town" 5 pg Brigitte story 1st appearance?
"Pulling An Archie" 6 pg Ginger Lopez story
"The Chase" 5 pg Jughead story
"Women's Rights" 4 pg
"You Came A Long Way, Baby.." 6 pg
"The Battle of the Jitterbugs" 7 pg
"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" 5 pg
"Meow Row" 5 pg
"Toolbelt Diva!" 6 pg Ginger Lopez
"No Fear" 6 pg Jughead/Trula Twyst story
"Turnabout" 5 pg Archie and Jughead cross dress
"Radio Daze" 11 pg Cheryl Blossom story
"Modest Mood" 1 pg
"The Big Chase" 6 pg

Betty and Veronica Girls Rule! (226 pgs)
"Friends 'Til The End" part 1 and 2 11 pg
"The New Girl in Town" 5 pg Brigitte story
"Bicentennial Banter" 5 pg
"Girl Power" 6 pg
"The Battle of the Jitterbugs" 7 pg
"Sweet as Butter" 6 pg
"Obstacle Coarse" 5 pg
"Cheer Factor" 11 pg
"Meow Row" 5 pg
"Let Betty Do It" 5 pg
"A Women's Lib-Rib" 5 pg
"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" 5 pg
"200 Things I Like About You!" part 1, 2, and 3. 21 pg
"Women's Rights" 4 pg
"Modest Mood" 1 pg
"The Great Switcheroo!" Sabrina story 20 pg
"Chase Race" 6 pg
"A Battle Royal" 11 pg
"You Came A Long Way, Baby.." 6 pg
"Sleepover!" part 1 and 2 11 pg. Brigitte story
"Radio Daze" 11 pg Cheryl Blossom story
"The Trouble With Girls" 5 pg
"Poor Little Rich Girl!" 7 pg
"Best Friends" 11 pg
"No Fear" 6 pg
"Photo Op!" 5 pg
"Friendship Wrecked" 5 pg
"The Chase" 5 pg
"Best Buds" 5 pg
"Share & Share Alike" 5 pg

DeCarlo Rules

@irishmoxie - Thanks for the contents listing comparison, it's always good to know.

I was a little surprised by the trade collection, because it didn't seem anywhere near as thematic as the solicitation description had led me to believe. I had figured that there would have been a lot more "and Friends" as the focus of this collection, like first appearances of a lot of the most notable female supporting characters or stories which put one of them in the spotlight as one of the main characters. Josie's name is mentioned on the back cover, but there's not a single Josie story in this collection, unless you count her cameo appearance in "The Great Switcheroo!" as the leader of 'Joey and the Junkyard Dogs'. A lot of the other reoccurring female characters are nowhere to be found in this collection, either. At least there was a short Jughead story ("No Fear") featuring Trula Twyst that I hadn't read before.

I also expected the trade paperback to be in the usual "Archie & Friends All-Stars" format (6" x 9"), but instead it was in the smaller 5.3" x 8" format used for ARCHIE'S CAMPFIRE STORIES (which was the last new collection of classic Archie stories released in trade paperback, back in July of 2015). At least it was printed on nice, bright white paper. All in all though, after I finished reading it I was left with the feeling that the same story contents list could have been used to fill a Jumbo Comics edition of one of the B&V digests, and I would never really even have taken notice of the theme. There were even a couple of Archie and Jughead stories (that didn't really feature any of the girls prominently) included in the contents, which seemed a little strange for a B&V collection.

BettyReggie

#244

📖 9 Days till Archie #12 which comes on September /21/2016
🎤 🎹 🎼 🎧 🎸 🎶 🎤 16 Days till Josie & The Pussycats #1 - September /28/2016 🎤 🎹 🎼 🎧 🎸 🎶 🎤.
🎤 🎹 🎼 🎧 🎸 🎶 🎤 23 Days till Archie Meets The Ramones -October /5/2016 🎤 🎹 🎼 🎧 🎸 🎶 🎤.
🐒  24 Days till New York Comic Con which is October /6/2016
📖  30 days Away- World Of Archie Jumbo Comics Digest #63-October 12, 2016
📖  37 Days till Archie #13 & Archie Comics Double Digest #273- which comes out on October /19/2016               
📖  44 days Away Jughead & Archie Jumbo Comics Digest #23-October 26, 2016
📖  51 days Away Josie & The Pussycats #2 & Betty & Veronica Holiday Annual Digest #248 -November 02, 2016
💋  58 Days till B & V #3 November 09, 2016
👜  77 Days till Cyber Monday which is November /28/2016
👓  99 Days till Archie Volume #2 which comes out on December /20/2016
💋 104 Days till Christmas.
🐒 111 Days till January 1st & hopefully we see Riverdale In January 2017.
🌴 159 Days till my 37th Birthday which is February 18th 2017
Archie Vol. 3 Paperback  – May 9, 2017 from Amazon & that's 239 days away. I can't wait. I'm going preorder it

irishmoxie

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on September 11, 2016, 03:22:50 AM
@irishmoxie - Thanks for the contents listing comparison, it's always good to know.

I was a little surprised by the trade collection, because it didn't seem anywhere near as thematic as the solicitation description had led me to believe. I had figured that there would have been a lot more "and Friends" as the focus of this collection, like first appearances of a lot of the most notable female supporting characters or stories which put one of them in the spotlight as one of the main characters. Josie's name is mentioned on the back cover, but there's not a single Josie story in this collection, unless you count her cameo appearance in "The Great Switcheroo!" as the leader of 'Joey and the Junkyard Dogs'. A lot of the other reoccurring female characters are nowhere to be found in this collection, either. At least there was a short Jughead story ("No Fear") featuring Trula Twyst that I hadn't read before.

I also expected the trade paperback to be in the usual "Archie & Friends All-Stars" format (6" x 9"), but instead it was in the smaller 5.3" x 8" format used for ARCHIE'S CAMPFIRE STORIES (which was the last new collection of classic Archie stories released in trade paperback, back in July of 2015). At least it was printed on nice, bright white paper. All in all though, after I finished reading it I was left with the feeling that the same story contents list could have been used to fill a Jumbo Comics edition of one of the B&V digests, and I would never really even have taken notice of the theme. There were even a couple of Archie and Jughead stories (that didn't really feature any of the girls prominently) included in the contents, which seemed a little strange for a B&V collection.


When reading through this trade paperback, it seemed to be a mix of Boys vs. Girls stories and girls' friendship stories. It seemed to combine 2 Pep Digitals. One called World of Archie Pals vs Gals featuring "The Trouble With Girls", "No Fear", "Bicentennial Banter", and "The Great Switcheroo" and one called Betty and Veronica Friendship Fun featuring "Photo Op", "Poor Little Rich Girl", "Sweet as Butter", "200 Things I Like About You!", "Best Buds", "A Battle Royal", "Sleepover", "Best Friends", "Share and Share Alike", "Friends 'Til the End", "Let Betty Do It", and "Friendship Wrecked."

I wonder if whoever puts these collections together gets points for using stories that have already been used recently.

steveinthecity

Quote from: irishmoxie on September 11, 2016, 11:53:27 AM
I wonder if whoever puts these collections together gets points for using stories that have already been used recently.
I think it was Suzanna R. who used to post here that mentioned the only policy for Digest story selections be that every story was at least five years old.  I think in prior years the bulk of their readership was regular readers buying the 32-pagers and maybe the digests were for the casual fan and that person wasn't buying multiple digests each month. Obviously there's now more reprints than new material so it's frustrating for those of us who buy the larger books.
Comics!

BettyReggie


📖 7 Days till Archie #12 which comes on September /21/2016. I really looking forward to this one because Thomas Pitilli is the artist for this comic. He's a great artist.

BettyReggie

#248

📖 4 Days till Archie #12 which comes on September /21/2016
🎤 🎹 🎼 🎧 🎸 🎶 🎤 11 Days till Josie & The Pussycats #1 - September /28/2016 🎤 🎹 🎼 🎧 🎸 🎶 🎤.
🎤 🎹 🎼 🎧 🎸 🎶 🎤 18 Days till Archie Meets The Ramones -October /5/2016 🎤 🎹 🎼 🎧 🎸 🎶 🎤.
🐒  19 Days till New York Comic Con which is October /6/2016
📖  25 days Away- World Of Archie Jumbo Comics Digest #63-October 12, 2016
📖  32 Days till Archie #13 & Archie Comics Double Digest #273- which comes out on October /19/2016               
📖  39 days Away Jughead & Archie Jumbo Comics Digest #23-October 26, 2016
📖  46 days Away Josie & The Pussycats #2 & Betty & Veronica Holiday Annual Digest #248 -November 02, 2016
💋  53 Days till B & V #3 November 09, 2016
👜  72 Days till Cyber Monday which is November /28/2016
👓  94 Days till Archie Volume #2 which comes out on December /20/2016
💋  99 Days till Christmas.
🐒 106 Days till January 1st & hopefully we see Riverdale In January 2017.
🌴 155 Days till my 37th Birthday which is February 18th 2017
Archie Vol. 3 Paperback  – May 9, 2017 from Amazon & that's 234 days away. I can't wait. I'm going preorder it

BettyReggie

#249
Tomorrow is 2nd Saturday with no Riverdale Podcast

BettyReggie

#250
📖 2 Days & 9 Hours & 43 Minutes & 57 Seconds  till Archie #12

BettyReggie

#251

💖  💗 💝 💋 🎉 And today was day that a new Reggie title was announced September 19 2016.
78 Days till Reggie & Me #1 which comes out on December 7th 2016.

BettyReggie

77 Days for Josie & The Pussycats #3 which comes out the same day as Reggie & Me #1.
Archie #15 will be there in 91 days -December 21 2016

BettyReggie


🎤 🎹 🎼 🎧 🎸 🎶 🎤 6 Days till Josie & The Pussycats #1 - September /28/2016 🎤 🎹 🎼 🎧 🎸 🎶 🎤.
🎤 🎹 🎼 🎧 🎸 🎶 🎤13 Days till Archie Meets The Ramones -October /5/2016 🎤 🎹 🎼 🎧 🎸 🎶 🎤.
🐒  14 Days till New York Comic Con which is October /6/2016
📖  20 days Away- World Of Archie Jumbo Comics Digest #63-October 12, 2016
📖  27 Days till Archie #13 & Archie Comics Double Digest #273- which comes out on October /19/2016               
📖  34 days Away Jughead & Archie Jumbo Comics Digest #23-October 26, 2016
📖  41 days Away Josie & The Pussycats #2 & Betty & Veronica Holiday Annual Digest #248 -November 02, 2016
💋  48 Days till B & V #3 November 09, 2016
👜  67 Days till Cyber Monday which is November 28 2016
💋  76 Days till Reggie & Me #1 & 🎤 🎹 🎼 🎧 🎸 🎶 🎤  Josie & Pussycats #3 & B&V FRIENDS JUMBO COMICS DIGEST #252 which comes out on December 7, 2016
📖  83 Days till REGGIE'S 80-PAGE GIANT COMIC #1 which comes on December 14 2016
👓  89 Days till Archie Volume #2 which comes out on December 20 2016
📖  90 Days till Archie #15 & JUGHEAD AND ARCHIE WINTER ANNUAL #24 which comes out on December 21  2016
💋  94 Days till Christmas.
📖  97 Days till Afterlife With Archie & WORLD OF ARCHIE COMICS DOUBLE DIGEST #65which comes out on December 28, 2016
🐒 101 Days till January 1st & hopefully we see Riverdale In January 2017.
🌴 149 Days till my 37th Birthday which is February 18th 2017
Archie Vol. 3 Paperback  – May 9, 2017 from Amazon & that's 229 days away. I can't wait. I'm going preorder it

BettyReggie

#254
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💦 💝 🎉 💋 💞 💖💦 Reggie & Me #1 is coming out in 75 days.
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