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Alexandra Cabot

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on January 31, 2017, 08:56:55 PM
Well, it's quite possible (you might even say likely) that ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS won't exist in eight years. Or in four, which is pretty much what I meant by "post-New Riverdale". But where did I say it would? I highly doubt that would mean that Archie stories would cease to be printed by someone (probably not in the floppy comics format...). I'm okay with that idea.

PS - You think New Riverdale comics might last up to EIGHT years before putting ACP out of business?! That's almost as unlikely as Trump being re-elected.

Current management has depreciated the value of the product so much that I honestly don't even see a strong motive for another company to print Archie Comics honestly.  A ton of the digests go unsold from what I've heard, and a majority of that rack space isn't owned by nerds who sell comic books for a living.

QuotePS - You think New Riverdale comics might last up to EIGHT years before putting ACP out of business?!

Strawman based on nothing I said.

QuoteThat's almost as unlikely as Trump being re-elected.

Yeah, just as unlikely as him getting elected with the news propaganda outlets calling him literally Hitler for a year and pollsters over-sampling Democrats by absurd amounts to always put Hillary Clinton ahead.  Last three presidents got re-elected, and Democrats are so insanely stupid they decided to light cars on fire the first day of his presidency pretty much invalidating all of their arguments to background noise hysterics.  If you think it's really unlikely, I think you need to work harder on your critical thinking.


DeCarlo Rules

I guess I'm supposed to feel insulted, but that would be predicated on me actually caring what you think.

Ooooh... let's play Internet Fight Club!

steveinthecity

Quote from: Alexandra Cabot on January 31, 2017, 05:58:12 AM
QuoteBefore you generally blame the Dems for NAFTA, don't forget that the Republicans share the blame for it, and some of them are just as "elitist". The Dems don't have the copyright on it. And President Obama did what he could, while the Republicans sat on their hands and did nothing, period, except be obstructionist. You see what you want to see, don't you, so it's pointless to take up this issue with you. DR's right. Let's get back to Sears/Kmart on this thread, and agree to disagree. Your call...

I'm not a Republican or a conservative.  You don't understand how out of touch the left is with people these days, so you're still going back to your binaries.  I don't think you realize what happened in the election at all honestly. 

As for NAFTA, it was the Clinton administration's fault, and people were still arrogant enough to put one of the policy wonks behind stealing everyone's jobs on the ballot.  You got the result unrestrained arrogance engenders. 

The left definitely has a market on elitism right now.  You are now represented by Marxist lunatics shouting at people about "white privilege."  The left is dead at this point.  What's left is some bizarre religion about virtue signalling to people on social media and places like California that are effectively a foreign country that thinks it will win back the people by having millionaire actors shout at them on television.   :2funny:

Obama didn't do jack.  He was an ineffectual coward.  Hell, his second term was pretty much one long lame duck session because he was hiding out in the White House hiding from congress like a wimp or outside the country half the time.  You can blame that on obstructionists, but the truth is he was an ideological hack with no people skills who couldn't work with a congress from an opposite party like other presidents like Clinton or Reagan did.  Also ISIS loves the guy considering his foreign policy decisions gave it the power vacuum to exist.


QuoteHas California not been wildly progressive in their politics the last few decades?  Holy Cow.  I hate everyone in Connecticut, by the way.  They just don't look like proper Americans to me.  They smirk sometimes in photos. Connecticut is full of communist sympathizers, by my account. They're probably all commies. Every last one of them. North Carolina is also on my list, as is Maryland.  I'm just getting warmed up. South Dakota better hope I don't look your way!

How are you enjoying having your party's teeth kicked down its throat in an electoral landslide?   ;D   I'm loving it.   :smitten:
Exactly what party is that?  Hopefully it's one with a proper stock of full to the brim red Solo cups. How is it you enjoy excoriating or bearing such malice towards large swaths of people? You must be from South Dakota.
Comics!

Alexandra Cabot

#48
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on January 31, 2017, 11:55:30 PM
I guess I'm supposed to feel insulted, but that would be predicated on me actually caring what you think.

Ooooh... let's play Internet Fight Club!

Let's go over this again maybe.  Trump just won one of the most significant electoral landslides in history when all the know-it-alls said it was impossible, and you just said him getting re-elected was impossible because of reasons I guess.  Then I said you need to work on your critical thinking because that's an illogical conclusion, and you reply that's an insult, with no retort to my point at all.

If you want an insult.  Here's a good one.  Just because you routinely type walls of endless text here does not mean you're intelligent.  It's actually pretty annoying, and you barely if ever have a good point to make because you're a pretentious blowhard.   ;D   

QuoteExactly what party is that?  Hopefully it's one with a proper stock of full to the brim red Solo cups. How is it you enjoy excoriating or bearing such malice towards large swaths of people? You must be from South Dakota.

More witless butt hurt.   ;D Yes, you've made me feel so bad about being raycis against commiefornians, and I'm totally not laughing about how mad you are right now.   :2funny:   I'll leave you to your autistic lolcow K-Mart thread now.   :2funny:


Captain Jetpack

Ya know, I can get politics anywhere.
How bout a little more Archie-centric discussion?
Please? ::)
Pie is my favorite Vitamin.

60sBettyandReggie

#50
Regardless of if you like President Trump or not, the fact of the matter is he is now the President for the next 4 (or maybe 8?) years. How about supporting him and the country? Because all the rioting and whining from the liberals is only hurting the country. All the hate that the liberals said was coming from Trump and his supporters, is actually coming from the left side. They have shown such tremendous hate and ignorance and stubbornness and all that is only dividing the country more than it already is. Let's come together as a country again, put on our big-boy pants and support America instead of crying and wearing safety pins and other nonsense. My two cents. I don't mean to be mean but it is annoying watching all the constant whining from the ones who lost. Anyway, let's get back to Kmart  :)

Alexandra Cabot

#51
Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on February 01, 2017, 01:32:25 PM
Regardless of if you like President Trump or not, the fact of the matter is he is now the President for the next 4 (or maybe 8?) years. How about supporting him and the country? Because all the rioting and whining from the liberals is only hurting the country. All the hate that the liberals said was coming from Trump and his supporters, is actually coming from the left side. They have shown such tremendous hate and ignorance and stubbornness and all that is only dividing the country more than it already is. Let's come together as a country again, put on our big-boy pants and support America instead of crying and wearing safety pins and other nonsense. My two cents. I don't mean to be mean but it is annoying watching all the constant whining from the ones who lost. Anyway, let's get back to Kmart  :)

Absolutely.  Trump supporters can't even go to places like L.A. without being physically attacked, and when they were attacked, often times on video, the absurdly non-objective in the tank media decided not to cover it.  How is anyone supposed to respect the left when they act like that and have liars in the news protecting them?  Heck, the riot at the Chicago Trump rally was planned by Democratic operatives who admitted it on video.  The video was released to the media, and still jokers like CNN refused to cover it.  Then a few slime balls torture someone they say is a Trump supporter on video, and after CNN is forced to cover it because it went viral, Don Lemon says they aren't evil and suggests they are probably good kids.  XD

It's what happens when you feed stupid kids Marxist revolutionary rhetoric uniornically.  They start thinking violence that is politically motivated is acceptable.  The ends justify the means to them, and people that disagree are the enemy.  That's where we are with the left is right now. The sad thing is the politicians, the grass roots and even average card carrying Democrats, of which I used to be one (but never again), will never ever say anything against their own kind ever.  They can attack people, torture them, demean people, discriminate, act like adult babies throwing tantrums, and never will they ever be policed by their own people or held responsible for their actions.

As for Steve so upset I poked fun at California, the left and the Democrats didn't give a rat's ass about the Rust Belt for the past 30 years.  Their trade policies destroyed the place and never once did I hear any of them ever admit there was a problem or say anything in favor of the workers who lost their factories to globalization.  They probably care more about the Syrian refugees who took place in gang rape attacks in places like Cologne, Germany than they do about our own citizens who live outside their communities.  So yeah, good luck ever getting our votes back again.  The fact you don't care about us was made explicitly clear due to your reaction to the election results.


DeCarlo Rules

#52
Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on February 01, 2017, 01:32:25 PM
Regardless of if you like President Trump or not, the fact of the matter is he is now the President for the next 4 (or maybe 8?) years. How about supporting him and the country?

I think I'll just try my best to ignore him. Just because he's president doesn't mean I have to be happy about it, but then I wasn't going to be happy about it if Hilary won. I'm not 'whining', but I'm not happy either.

Same applies to Mike Pellerito. He's got the job, but that doesn't mean he's always right. If I disagree with his agenda, I have a right to say so.

But yeah, pretty bored with the politics already.

60sBettyandReggie

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on February 01, 2017, 09:03:24 PM
Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on February 01, 2017, 01:32:25 PM
Regardless of if you like President Trump or not, the fact of the matter is he is now the President for the next 4 (or maybe 8?) years. How about supporting him and the country?

I think I'll just try my best to ignore him. Just because he's president doesn't mean I have to be happy about it, but then I wasn't going to be happy about it if Hilary won. I'm not 'whining', but I'm not happy either.

Same applies to Mike Pellerito. He's got the job, but that doesn't mean he's always right. If I disagree with his agenda, I have a right to say so.

But yeah, pretty bored with the politics already.


Yeah, I get it. And btw, I didn't mean to say you (or anyone else on this forum, for that matter) were whining. I meant all those liberals that are out there protesting....wait, let's me cross that out because they are not liberals anymore, they have become extremists, fanatics, terrorists and they aren't protesting they are rioting.

60sBettyandReggie

Quote from: Alexandra Cabot on February 01, 2017, 04:16:29 PM
Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on February 01, 2017, 01:32:25 PM
Regardless of if you like President Trump or not, the fact of the matter is he is now the President for the next 4 (or maybe 8?) years. How about supporting him and the country? Because all the rioting and whining from the liberals is only hurting the country. All the hate that the liberals said was coming from Trump and his supporters, is actually coming from the left side. They have shown such tremendous hate and ignorance and stubbornness and all that is only dividing the country more than it already is. Let's come together as a country again, put on our big-boy pants and support America instead of crying and wearing safety pins and other nonsense. My two cents. I don't mean to be mean but it is annoying watching all the constant whining from the ones who lost. Anyway, let's get back to Kmart  :)

Absolutely.  Trump supporters can't even go to places like L.A. without being physically attacked, and when they were attacked, often times on video, the absurdly non-objective in the tank media decided not to cover it.  How is anyone supposed to respect the left when they act like that and have liars in the news protecting them?  Heck, the riot at the Chicago Trump rally was planned by Democratic operatives who admitted it on video.  The video was released to the media, and still jokers like CNN refused to cover it.  Then a few slime balls torture someone they say is a Trump supporter on video, and after CNN is forced to cover it because it went viral, Don Lemon says they aren't evil and suggests they are probably good kids.  XD

It's what happens when you feed stupid kids Marxist revolutionary rhetoric uniornically.  They start thinking violence that is politically motivated is acceptable.  The ends justify the means to them, and people that disagree are the enemy.  That's where we are with the left is right now. The sad thing is the politicians, the grass roots and even average card carrying Democrats, of which I used to be one (but never again), will never ever say anything against their own kind ever.  They can attack people, torture them, demean people, discriminate, act like adult babies throwing tantrums, and never will they ever be policed by their own people or held responsible for their actions.

As for Steve so upset I poked fun at California, the left and the Democrats didn't give a rat's ass about the Rust Belt for the past 30 years.  Their trade policies destroyed the place and never once did I hear any of them ever admit there was a problem or say anything in favor of the workers who lost their factories to globalization.  They probably care more about the Syrian refugees who took place in gang rape attacks in places like Cologne, Germany than they do about our own citizens who live outside their communities.  So yeah, good luck ever getting our votes back again.  The fact you don't care about us was made explicitly clear due to your reaction to the election results.


We simply cannot trust in the media anymore. Bunch of liars.

Alexandra Cabot

Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on February 03, 2017, 06:10:39 PM
We simply cannot trust in the media anymore. Bunch of liars.

Absolutely.

About California being a festering communist crap hole, recently at UC Berkely, liberal protestors tried to murder people at a speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, an extremely gay ethnic Jew, because SHOCKER he has conservative views and criticizes political correctness.  For that they labeled him a Nazi and attacked his speech by starting a riot, destroying their student union, burning down part of the campus, pepper spraying a woman wearing a Trump hat in the face and beating a supporter of Milo's in the head with a pipe so badly he almost died on the street.  Milo had to be rushed out the building because people broke into it with the intent to kill him.  The mayor of Berkeley told the police to stand down and cried about Milo being a bad guy during the riot on Twitter.  The police did nothing to stop the riot.

California is so incredibly biased that you can't be queer and disagree with liberals anymore or Californians will try to murder you.  This is what most people outside the state now see when they think of California:



So I ask you SAGG and SteveintheCity, why should I kiss your state's ass when treating people who disagree with the left like that is now common place?  Why do you have no awareness about how your state is perceived by outsiders?  That's not an isolated incident, there's plenty more examples over the course of the past year to choose from (btw, expecting silence here, especially from StevieintheCity).


60sBettyandReggie

^ The sad thing is that the liberals do not care. In fact they were applauding what happened at Berkeley. Those terrorists- because that's what they are- destroyed property, burned things, beat people up all in the name of "free speech and love" and no one batted an eye. Even the police did nothing to stop the destruction. Unbelievable. This really should have been a wake up call for the left side, but nope, they are so blind with their hatred they don't want to see.

DeCarlo Rules

#57
Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on February 05, 2017, 10:59:19 PM
^ The sad thing is that the liberals do not care. In fact they were applauding what happened at Berkeley. Those terrorists- because that's what they are- destroyed property, burned things, beat people up all in the name of "free speech and love" and no one batted an eye. Even the police did nothing to stop the destruction. Unbelievable. This really should have been a wake up call for the left side, but nope, they are so blind with their hatred they don't want to see.

A wake up call for who? If the police did nothing, does that imply that they're all liberal terrorists too, at least passively? Or maybe they needed to follow orders from the Police Commissioner or something -- which I guess makes him a suspect as a pawn of the left wing. But possibly it was a tense situation where if the police took action, they risked touching off a powder keg of escalating violence. There have always been radical extremists, but they're not conscripts in some sort of Liberal Army that can be court-martialed. They're acting on their own, not following some sinister liberal conspiracy master plan. Maybe they'll become the new cliche comic book villains, replacing the 'crazy as a bag of cats' right-wing conservative nutcases. It could happen. I'm sure I've probably already read a dozen stories with radical eco-terrorists, so it probably will. And yes, you will have some people who would never act on it, but will cheer them on, just like there were people saying "Nuke Iraq!" after 9/11.

I guess it's probably just easier to divide all people into a Red Team and a Blue Team, and make sure they always wear their uniforms so we can all tell each other apart and know who's the enemy. And if someone refuses to wear the uniform and show team spirit, then they must be a player for the opposite team, so you know you can't trust them. That's just a mental exercise in visualization, but what really happens is that people latch onto a word for identifying the enemy, and then proceed to start rubber-stamping everyone with one name or the other (purely for the purposes of keeping the Bad Guys sorted out). If you're doing it, then you can guarantee someone else is doing it to you. We don't need no stinking badges. It is amazingly difficult to be a terrorist or even a radical without an ideology. Even an anarchist has an implied ideology, whether he'll admit to it or not. Just accept the fact that the minute you start sorting people into lists of USes and THEMs, you become part of the problem, not part of the solution. Is it any wonder I hate politics?

True story: The Pledge of Allegiance was changed in the 1950s to include the words "One nation, under God" in the hopes that it would help root out Communists in our midst. Because it's a well known fact that all Communists are Atheists, and thus it was assumed the reverse also applied. I'm not really sure if the intended effect was more along the lines of spontaneous human combustion or just a bad actor being dumbstruck in the middle of a performance.

Alexandra Cabot

#58
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on February 06, 2017, 01:05:26 AM
Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on February 05, 2017, 10:59:19 PM
^ The sad thing is that the liberals do not care. In fact they were applauding what happened at Berkeley. Those terrorists- because that's what they are- destroyed property, burned things, beat people up all in the name of "free speech and love" and no one batted an eye. Even the police did nothing to stop the destruction. Unbelievable. This really should have been a wake up call for the left side, but nope, they are so blind with their hatred they don't want to see.

A wake up call for who? If the police did nothing, does that imply that they're all liberal terrorists too, at least passively? Or maybe they needed to follow orders from the Police Commissioner or something -- which I guess makes him a suspect as a pawn of the left wing. But possibly it was a tense situation where if the police took action, they risked touching off a powder keg of escalating violence. There have always been radical extremists, but they're not conscripts in some sort of Liberal Army that can be court-martialed. They're acting on their own, not following some sinister liberal conspiracy master plan. Maybe they'll become the new cliche comic book villains, replacing the 'crazy as a bag of cats' right-wing conservative nutcases. It could happen. I'm sure I've probably already read a dozen stories with radical eco-terrorists, so it probably will. And yes, you will have some people who would never act on it, but will cheer them on, just like there were people saying "Nuke Iraq!" after 9/11.

I guess it's probably just easier to divide all people into a Red Team and a Blue Team, and make sure they always wear their uniforms so we can all tell each other apart and know who's the enemy. And if someone refuses to wear the uniform and show team spirit, then they must be a player for the opposite team, so you know you can't trust them. That's just a mental exercise in visualization, but what really happens is that people latch onto a word for identifying the enemy, and then proceed to start rubber-stamping everyone with one name or the other (purely for the purposes of keeping the Bad Guys sorted out). If you're doing it, then you can guarantee someone else is doing it to you. We don't need no stinking badges. It is amazingly difficult to be a terrorist or even a radical without an ideology. Even an anarchist has an implied ideology, whether he'll admit to it or not. Just accept the fact that the minute you start sorting people into lists of USes and THEMs, you become part of the problem, not part of the solution. Is it any wonder I hate politics?

True story: The Pledge of Allegiance was changed in the 1950s to include the words "One nation, under God" in the hopes that it would help root out Communists in our midst. Because it's a well known fact that all Communists are Atheists, and thus it was assumed the reverse also applied. I'm not really sure if the intended effect was more along the lines of spontaneous human combustion or just a bad actor being dumbstruck in the middle of a performance.

Oh boy, a trademark DeCarlo Rules post that says so much yet absolutely nothing at the same time.  Thanks for following through when I criticized you for that kind of thing earlier in the thread.   ;D

QuoteBut possibly it was a tense situation where if the police took action, they risked touching off a powder keg of escalating violence.

It was already an exploded powder keg of escalating violence.  The police did nothing to protect those people and businesses that were attacked.  People like you are part of the problem honestly.  You're presented with evidence of wrong doing by your side and all you can do is deflect, deflect, deflect, and then fall back on some cliche about anyone complaining being a partisan.  What a joke.  I've witnessed the left completely destroy itself in about 5 years time, and yet no one wants to address the problem.  Kids have been brain washed to the point they think that it's okay to physically attack people over perceived social justice issues, and all the left can do is ignore the problem like nothing happened.  It's beyond absurd at this point.  You talk about teams, but if anyone on the right did anything even approaching this it would be like World War III in the media.  Yet, you don't perceive any bias.   ::)


Alexandra Cabot

#59
Time for an update!   ;D

About Commiefornia being an ideological dystopia, there was an update about the UC Berkeley riot at Milo's speech.  Remember when I mentioned the Milo fan who was almost beaten to death and left in the street to die.  Well, when that happened, information was circulated online that the scumbag who did that beating was actually an employee of UC Berkeley, namely because he bragged about it online.  That has now been backed up by an independent news source that also revealed this is being investigated by the FBI:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/02/uc-berkeley-thug-beat-conservative-bragged-online-university-staff-member/

Explain this one, guys.  How is this school system redeemable?  Why in the blue hell should this crappy school in this whackjob state receive federal funds?


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