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What comics have you been reading?

Started by irishmoxie, March 30, 2016, 10:49:35 PM

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BettyReggie

I read
Reggie & Me #3-Thomas Pitilli
RiverDale-One Shot-Thomas Pitilli
Josie & The Pussycats #5-Main cover which had pages stuck together.

BettyReggie

I read
RiverDale-One Shot-Dan Parent

60sBettyandReggie

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I read the reboot  Reggie and Me #2.
Why is the storyline so boring? It's sad 'cause he is my favorite character but so far this  reboot is not doing it for me.


I read Reggie and Me #3 yesterday. It's MUCH better than #2.


Thanks. I really hope so because those two issues so far haven't been interesting nor funny  :(

I thought the first 2 were OK, not bad, but this one was a huge improvement, IMO.


I just finished reading Reggie and Me #3. it was a tad better than the first 2 issues. I liked that we got to see a bit more of Moose and how there's more to him than meets the eye. But it is still not funny or entertaining. Like I said, I'm only reading them cause Reggie's my favorite, I would like to see more of his family life and the real reason why he acts the way he does. I want deeper insight of him.

DeCarlo Rules

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I read the reboot  Reggie and Me #2.
Why is the storyline so boring? It's sad 'cause he is my favorite character but so far this  reboot is not doing it for me.


I read Reggie and Me #3 yesterday. It's MUCH better than #2.


Thanks. I really hope so because those two issues so far haven't been interesting nor funny  :(

I thought the first 2 were OK, not bad, but this one was a huge improvement, IMO.


I just finished reading Reggie and Me #3. it was a tad better than the first 2 issues. I liked that we got to see a bit more of Moose and how there's more to him than meets the eye. But it is still not funny or entertaining. Like I said, I'm only reading them cause Reggie's my favorite, I would like to see more of his family life and the real reason why he acts the way he does. I want deeper insight of him.

Yeesh. I don't need any deep insight into either of them. Reggie and Moose are joke characters who just don't work when you try to expand them into more multi-dimensional realistic humans. I have even less empathy for this version of Reggie than I do for "comic foil" Reggie. The dog narrating everything and adding his own comments about how he sees things from his perspective has really gotten annoying at this point, and the character named "Moose" is some completely different character than the one I'm familiar with ("he's really just a sensitive artist"). Not funny, and boring.

DeCarlo Rules

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MAN-THING #1 (of 5) - The art's not bad at all, but I get the feeling R.L. Stine (yes, the Goosebumps one) had really never read a Man-Thing story before being drafted for this assignment. It's odd, to say the least, and the humor here seems out of place. Still hooked me enough to read #2, but I may have been seduced by the artwork.

COMPLETE TALES FROM THE CON TP - Concult webcom print collection. Humor in a conventional vein. I did get most of the jokes in these strips, but a few were even too inscrutable for me.

SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH #11 (March 1998) - Pretty good DeCarlo art. Sabrina meets her evil opposite (Anirbas, what else?) from the mirror dimension, has a visit from Cousin Fern (another victim of Head Witch Enchantra's tempestuous wrath, like Salem - now an actual plant), and inadvertently transforms her teacher into a gorilla while drowsing in class during a zoology lecture. The only thing that annoyed me about this run of SABRINA was the bizarre sexually-ambiguous redesign of Aunt Zelda (the only visual cues connecting her to her former self being her green hair and glasses). At least she shed some excess weight, but looks like she went overboard, winding up with a figure more like Ethel's or Ms. Grundy's, and no fashion sense whatsoever (the big round spectacles and short green hair with a huge curl in front make her look like some sort of punk-rock Dilton). She's a witch, and she self-transformed at the start of the series, so I don't know what I'm supposed to make of that, since she could presumably have altered herself to look any way she wanted. At least they had the good sense to rethink that in the subsequent Holly G run, while Aunt Hilda carried on in the later run looking almost exactly the same (not bad) as here, which seemed to have considerably improved her formerly cranky disposition -- although when last seen in a Gisele digest story, she'd opted for an even younger sexy teenager look, while reverting to her bad-witchy ways.

JUGHEAD'S DOUBLE DIGEST #123 (Sept. 2006) - Good selection of stories, but nothing remarkable. This comes from a brief time where they experimented with coloring in the gutters and borders in various hues in select stories, which gives them an interesting look, although I'm sure some must have hated it.

CLUBBING (OGN) by Andi Watson & Josh Howard - Small B&W trade (same size ACP formerly preferred with the Archie & Friends All-Stars collection) that was part of a DC line of girlie comics [minx] a decade ago - which oddly enough seem to all have been written and drawn by men (one was written by a married couple), even though they all featured young female protagonists. The back of the book has three previews for others: THE PLAIN JANES by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg, RE-GIFTERS by Mike Carey and Sonny Liew, GOOD AS LILY by Derek Kirk Kim and Jesse Hamm, and a final page showing covers of three more then-upcoming: CONFESSIONS OF A BLABBERMOUTH, WATER BABY, and KIMMIE66. Whether the line ever got further than that, or even if all of those books were ever released, I don't know.

60sBettyandReggie

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Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on February 23, 2017, 01:33:11 PM
I read the reboot  Reggie and Me #2.
Why is the storyline so boring? It's sad 'cause he is my favorite character but so far this  reboot is not doing it for me.


I read Reggie and Me #3 yesterday. It's MUCH better than #2.


Thanks. I really hope so because those two issues so far haven't been interesting nor funny  :(

I thought the first 2 were OK, not bad, but this one was a huge improvement, IMO.


I just finished reading Reggie and Me #3. it was a tad better than the first 2 issues. I liked that we got to see a bit more of Moose and how there's more to him than meets the eye. But it is still not funny or entertaining. Like I said, I'm only reading them cause Reggie's my favorite, I would like to see more of his family life and the real reason why he acts the way he does. I want deeper insight of him.

Yeesh. I don't need any deep insight into either of them. Reggie and Moose are joke characters who just don't work when you try to expand them into more multi-dimensional realistic humans. I have even less empathy for this version of Reggie than I do for "comic foil" Reggie. The dog narrating everything and adding his own comments about how he sees things from his perspective has really gotten annoying at this point, and the character named "Moose" is some completely different character than the one I'm familiar with ("he's really just a sensitive artist"). Not funny, and boring.


Well the way I see it is if we are not getting any comedy from this reboot at least give us some deep sh!t/insight  ;)  Something to keep us entertained! Anything.  So far there's been nothing!
I do agree with you on the whole dog-narrating thing. What is it with these new reboots and narrating dogs?? Whose idea was it? ::)  And all of a sudden Moose is into Geology and a History buff!? Ookay. What I liked was his home life, Moose taking care of his younger siblings. That part was nice.

DeCarlo Rules

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Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on March 12, 2017, 05:45:53 PM
Well the way I see it is if we are not getting any comedy from this reboot at least give us some deep sh!t/insight  ;)  Something to keep us entertained! Anything.  So far there's been nothing!
I do agree with you on the whole dog-narrating thing. What is it with these new reboots and narrating dogs?? Whose idea was it? ::)  And all of a sudden Moose is into Geology and a History buff!? Ookay. What I liked was his home life, Moose taking care of his younger siblings. That part was nice.

Yeah, it's puzzling though. We can assume he has some kind of learning disabilities that give him a reputation for being a real dumb-dumb, because nobody really knows him ... or actually, no we can't, on second thought. It's pretty hard to get far being interested in Geology and History without being able to read well and retain information... so -- ??

... and he looks about the same physically, more or less (somewhat more handsome, intentionally I think). But why would the whole school be sh*tting their pants in fear of him? Doesn't make any sense in light of the revelations.

irishmoxie

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on March 12, 2017, 05:14:48 PM

CLUBBING (OGN) by Andi Watson & Josh Howard - Small B&W trade (same size ACP formerly preferred with the Archie & Friends All-Stars collection) that was part of a DC line of girlie comics [minx] a decade ago - which oddly enough seem to all have been written and drawn by men (one was written by a married couple), even though they all featured young female protagonists. The back of the book has three previews for others: THE PLAIN JANES by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg, RE-GIFTERS by Mike Carey and Sonny Liew, GOOD AS LILY by Derek Kirk Kim and Jesse Hamm, and a final page showing covers of three more then-upcoming: CONFESSIONS OF A BLABBERMOUTH, WATER BABY, and KIMMIE66. Whether the line ever got further than that, or even if all of those books were ever released, I don't know.


I have all these. They are ok. They can't decide if they are manga or graphic novels.

DeCarlo Rules

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Quote from: irishmoxie on March 12, 2017, 09:26:44 PM
I have all these. They are ok. They can't decide if they are manga or graphic novels.

Graphic novels. That's exactly what they refer to themselves as, on a text page included at the back that is introducing the imprint and (more or less, I guess) outlining their mission statement: "MINX is a line of graphic novels that's designed especially for you - someone who's a bit bored with straight fiction and is ready for stories that are visually exciting beyond words..." ??  (I don't know what they were imagining they were aiming at in terms of an age level, but clearly they're assuming readers who aren't comics-literate at all... and is it just me or does this sound incredibly condescending to their readers' presumed intelligence?)

These are all established indy artists, and I'm not seeing any more than the usual diffuse (hard to escape it after all these years) manga influence here common to artists of a generation when manga was commonly available for them growing up (which is to say, the late 1980s/early 1990s). No, these are more or less typical examples of different indy artists' styles, nothing here consciously aping real manga styles. I've seen what you're referring to much more often in mainstream comics, although it's abated somewhat since the late 1990s, when it seemed like it was everywhere you looked. Some of that was overt publisher-dictated "let's try to grab the manga fans" initiatives (Marvel Mangaverse, Tsunami, and other Marvel miniseries featuring Spider-Man or one of the X-Men, or to give a more recent example, DC's AmeComi Girls, based on a line of statues and action figures of redesigned bishoujo DC superheroines), and some of it was just new artists coming in on established mainstream titles who were heavily consciously influenced themselves, and were seeking some sort of 'fusion' in-your-face manga style merged with traditional American superhero comic art to grab attention as 'the new hotness' in comic book artists. Joe Madureira, Pop Mhan, Humberto Ramos, Todd Nauck, etc.

American comics artists have been influenced since at least the mid-80s by manga art, but that covered a wide spectrum from Frank Miller being influenced by Lone Wolf & Cub's Goseki Kojima (Dark Horse asked Miller to draw the covers for the American translation, which was, I think, only about the second or third manga to be published in English at that point) to Ninja High School's Ben Dunn being saturated by watching a lot of anime in the early 80s (he went on to draw the American licensed adaptations of Captain Harlock, Star Blazers, and Gigantor, but he was ahead of the curve. 15 years or so later, he was invited by Marvel to draw the bookend specials for the launch of a bunch of one-shots introducing the Marvel Mangaverse). The American who was most successful at cloning an absolutely authentic-looking manga art style was Adam Warren. Dark Horse hired him to draw adaptations of the anime Dirty Pair and Bubblegum Crisis in the 1980s, and that gained him enough of a following to draw various of his own projects, as well as be invited to draw a story arc for Image's Gen13 and much later, miniseries for Marvel such as Iron Man: Hypervelocity and LiveWires. He's been drawing his own manga/superhero webcomic, Empowered, for years now, which Dark Horse later issues in print collections. Far less slavish to authenticity but nevertheless wearing their influences on their sleeves are artists like Blue Monday's Chynna Clugston-whatever (Hey girl! If you're going to change husbands so often, stop hyphenating your surname! It's drawing too much attention!! ...and besides, it's a real bitch for comicbook databasists...) or Scott Pilgrim's Bryan Lee O'Malley (... or is it Brian Leo-Malley?, I can never remember... Actually, I'd always get confused and just call him Scott Pilgrim. Or is it SnotPilgrim? No wait, that's Scottgirl... er, Snotgirl).

At one point it seemed like there were a couple dozen of those "Yeah buddy! Manga, that's what I'm talkin' bout!" guys. They were all over the books at Marvel, and especially Image. It got to be pretty annoying, but I can't see that here at all. You'd think it would look more like shoujo art, wouldn't you, since that's the age demographic they seem to be going for here, or Rumiko Takahashi or CLAMP  ...? Kristin Gudsnuk's HENCHGIRL is a good example. I can see a lot of Rumiko Takahashi influence there, or in a more general way, something like JONESY or LUMBERJANES, which seem like they're aimed at approximately the same target.

But hey, it goes both ways, too. There have been a number of mangaka who've publicly acknowledged their love of superheroes, and not just the Ultramen, Kamen Riders, and Super Sentai costumed heroes that are a staple of Japanese broadcasting's kidvid fare. Even more so now, in the wake of Tim Burton's 1989 BATMAN, American superheroes have foreign fans, and many American-originated comics have influenced manga in Japan. One of mangaka Jiro Kuwata's earliest solo jobs as a teenage manga creator was a thing called Rocket Taro, which bears an uncanny resemblance in style to Superman -- but not just the character Superman, the very specific art style being used by American Superman artist Wayne Boring in the 1950s - comparing the two, it's pretty obvious that Kuwata-san had copies of those comics and studied the style until he could duplicate it nearly to a T (or should that be an S?). It sticks out as a stylistic oddity among other Japanese gekiga stories of the 50s. They did get the old George Reeves B&W Superman TV series in Japan, and I think it may have been adapted in some TV-themed manga magazine, of which their were many. The experience turned out to be good training for Kuwata, because by the time Japanese TV shows and movies began inventing their own superheroes, Kuwata-sensei became the go-to guy (it's not entirely clear whether Kuwata was specifically seeking to work in this genre, or publishers were seeking him in particular because of his prior experience with Rocket Taro (possibly it was a little of both), but whatever the case, he drew a slew of homeland supers in the late 50s/early 1960s, beginning with Moonlight Mask and SuperGiant, based on early TV shows. He then went on to create his own boy detective masked hero, Phantom Detective, and co-create 8 Man, considered to be the first cyborg hero in Japan (a murdered detective whose brain was transplanted into an android body), and drew the manga based on the anime series Mach-GO-GO-GO (known elsewhere in the world as Speed Racer). That same year (1967) he also got the job of drawing the first Japanese Batman manga (reprinted just about a year ago by DC in its entirety in 3 volumes, in English for the first time). The interesting thing about those is you might expect his Bat-Manga to look like the 1966 Batman television series, but it's clear that the Japanese publisher of Shonen King was sent copies of 1960s issues of DETECTIVE COMICS and BATMAN, and Kuwata chose to re-tell those stories in manga style -- significantly improving them in the process, IMO. The striking skeleton-costumed death-cheating villain of the American comic story "Death Knocks Three Times!", known in the American comic story as "Death Man", was re-named LORD Death Man in Kuwata's manga, and the American TV cartoon BATMAN: The Brave & The Bold adapted the manga story in a 10-minute animated homage looking for all the world as though Batman had suddenly taken over an episode of the classic 1967 anime, Speed Racer. While the American comic book villain Death Man never again made another appearance after his initial story in Detective Comics, somehow Lord Death Man has lived on, going from Kuwata's Bat-Manga to America's B:TB&TB cartoon, and then back into American mainstream comic books again in a BATMAN Incorporated story arc written by Grant Morrison.

I just love the weirdly multi-recursive idea of a contemporary American comic book based on an homage to a classic 1960s anime series' style, in a modern American animated spinoff cartoon, being based on a (until quite recently semi-obscure) 1967 Japanese manga story based on an American comic story from only a year or so earlier. But then I love it when you place 2 big mirrors facing each other and stand in between them and look back and forth from one to the other. Maybe it's not so weird though, because American comic books were around in Japan in 1945 with General MacArthur's Occupation Forces. It's been established that Osamu Tezuka (Manga No Kamisama, "The GOD of Manga") was influenced by post-war Disney comics given to him by an American serviceman. When asked about what influenced him to create the boy robot hero AstroBoy, he cited being a fan of both Walt Disney and Superman ("but by way of Mighty Mouse"). By forty years after Japan's defeat in WWII, it was Japanese culture that began influencing American culture, with the turning point considered to be the late-1980s release of anime feature films like AKIRA and GHOST IN THE SHELL (but "Japanimation" had its fans as far back as AstroBoy's appearance on American syndicated televison in 1964). When the 1980s New Wave band The Vapors sang "I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so, think so, think so, think so", they probably didn't realize how literally right they were. While legend has it that the lyrics to the song are inspired by facial expression of someone in the act of sexual self-gratification (and that's all I'll say... just Google it) the song seems to be a fitting theme to a point in time when Japanese graphic pop culture returned to invade American culture, the same way that American culture had invaded Japanese culture 40 years earlier.

BettyReggie

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I read
💝-💋 -💞 -💝 Reggie & Me #3-Sandy Jarrell issue

BettyReggie

#1030
I read these books for 12 minutes each
Tales From RiverDale Digest #26 & #29
Betty & Veronica Annual Digest Magazine #9

60sBettyandReggie

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on March 12, 2017, 06:07:01 PM
... and he looks about the same physically, more or less (somewhat more handsome, intentionally I think). But why would the whole school be sh*tting their pants in fear of him? Doesn't make any sense in light of the revelations.





:D

DeCarlo Rules

DARK HORSE PRESENTS #32
WONDER WOMAN 77 BIONIC WOMAN #3 (of 6)
BATWOMAN #1                           
VAMPIRELLA #1                       
THE WILD STORM #2                         
CAVE CARSON HAS A CYBERNETIC EYE #6 
GREAT LAKES AVENGERS #6
BETTY & VERONICA COMICS ANNUAL #252 - The Dan Parent fairy tales continue with "Thumbelonica". Loving it!

irishmoxie

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on March 16, 2017, 03:45:42 AM
DARK HORSE PRESENTS #32
WONDER WOMAN 77 BIONIC WOMAN #3 (of 6)
BATWOMAN #1                           
VAMPIRELLA #1                       
THE WILD STORM #2                         
CAVE CARSON HAS A CYBERNETIC EYE #6 
GREAT LAKES AVENGERS #6
BETTY & VERONICA COMICS ANNUAL #252 - The Dan Parent fairy tales continue with "Thumbelonica". Loving it!


Really liked the Hansel and Gretal story from Archie's Funhouse.

BettyReggie


Maybe I'll read later
I just Jughead Volume #2 from amazon yesterday.

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