I'm just waiting to see what happens after the program finally airs. Advertising for RIVERDALE is pretty heavy in the current issues of the digest titles, and I know that they have these pages in the digests where they can rarely sell them to paid advertisers (and it's hard to say whether CW is actually paying ACP to promote a show based on its own comics), but...  from the sounds of it, RIVERDALE does not seem like a television program whose content would constitute what most parents of 8-12 year-olds (assuming that they still form the majority of digest readers) would consider 'appropriate viewing' for pre-teens.

Which makes me wonder if there might be a backlash of complaints after the parents of those 8-12 year olds see what's in the show.

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I hope it's on Friday night. There's nothing on tv on Friday night.

  I hope so too.  Friday is the Jewish Sabbath and thus I will be unable to watch this atrocity. 

It sounds to me like this show would be decidedly non-kosher, which would mean you shouldn't watch it no matter when it airs. 

THE FALL AND RISE OF CAPTAIN ATOM #1 (of 3)
UNCLE SCROOGE #426
MICKEY MOUSE #325
RICK AND MORTY #21
SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU? #77
HAWKEYE #2
MOON KNIGHT #10
WORLD WAR X #1
CAGE #1, 2 & 3 (of 4)
WORLD OF ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #65
ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #275

Quote from: irishmoxie on January 01, 2017, 03:31:15 PM
Most of them are by Barbara Slate.

Can't say that I've read enough of Barbara Slate's stories for Archie Comics to have formed an opinion about her writing one way or the other. I've read more than just a few, but none of them ever struck me as especially outstanding in some way, or particularly bad either. I guess you could say the same about Mike Pellowski's stories... most of them aren't really bad per se, just run of the mill. Some of the scripts can be taken up or down a notch or two depending on the artwork.

Quote from: Shuester on January 03, 2017, 06:48:16 AM
I'm pretty sure there was a story a few years ago about the Archie gang going to an event similar to Comic-Con, and they saw a ton of other characters there. I remember that Bingo Wilkin was definitely there, and I think the Pussycats and Sabrina were too. But I'm not sure that they interacted. The story was in classic Archie, not sure which issue.

I believe this may be the story you're remembering -- ARCHIE & FRIENDS #156 (Aug. 2011), "The Great Riverdale Comic-CON" by Alex Segura and Bill Galvan.

Dick Clark is still alive? 

I spent hours and hours last night saving about 240 pages (which amounts to the first four issues, or story arcs) of Holly G's webcomic, SCHOOL BITES. Frankly it's a lot of work, but I like to save the actual images of the pages (which, for webcomics, are usually in .JPG or .GIF or some other common, non-proprietary graphics file format) so that I can sort them into folders using some sort of logical alphanumeric file naming sequence. That way I can read them later either on my tablet or desktop using some generic image viewer app, and just see the pages and not the ads on the webcomic HTML page as it's displayed in a browser. So I just right-click on the image, and "Save Image" to an appropriately-named folder, naming each page as something like "School_Bites-Page_001" and so on, in sequence. In this case it turned out to be fortunate decision because somewhere in the middle of the third story arc, SCHOOL BITES began skipping pages every 3rd page or so (it was apparently on a 3x weekly schedule as a webcomic), and posted either a pin-up or a gag strip (either by Holly or someone else) or some sketch or personal journal kind of strip for that date instead of another page of the story. So as I'm going along saving the main story pages, I'm sorting those little interruptions out by saving them into a different file folder than the main story continuity pages, naming the folder something like "SCHOOL BITES - Pin-Up Special" or "SCHOOL BITES - Special Strips", instead of the one named for the story arc ("SCHOOL BITES #3 - Phys Ed" ... each story arc or issue # has some clever title related to school like "Orientation", "Blood Sucking 101", "Phys Ed", "Music Theory", or "DETENTION"). So far it's working out to be that each story has a little over 60 pages, but it looks like a couple of the later issues or stories might be much longer than that. There are 8 issues or story arcs in all, amounting to some 600-odd pages in total. I made it as far as completing the folder that I named "SCHOOL BITES #4 - Music Theory", but like I said, the later arcs/issues look longer (and who knows how many pin-ups and non-story pages to sort out in that 400 pages or so that I have left to save). It'll all be worth it when I finally sit down to read it all, and I can just swipe or click through the pages of story a lot faster.

All of the DVDs of BEN 10 ALIEN FORCE and BEN 10 ULTIMATE ALIEN that I was missing from my collection. I had held off on buying them when they originally came out (between 2008 and 2012) in the vain hope that Warner Home Video would do something sensible, like releasing those series as complete season boxed sets at some sort of reasonable price, instead of their usual money-grubbing policy of putting 5 or 6 half-hour episodes on a single DVD, each one selling for somewhere from $10-13. Since 4 years have gone by since the last of those DVDs was released, it doesn't look like that will ever happen, so I thought I should get the 10 individual DVD releases of episodes that I was missing (after buying a single bargain compilation of the first four individual DVDs of ALIEN FORCE) - which would have wound up costing me just about $110, were it not for the fact that I had a few Amazon Gift Cards from Christmas, so I used those to pay.

Quote from: SAGG on January 01, 2017, 02:33:50 AM
Thanks to DR, I let loose in a HUGE way! In my second album, there's plenty to take in, the same for my first album! 

Goes a lot faster now, don't it? 

Could have fooled me. That Fry POP! vinyl from Futurama could easily pass as New Riverdale Archie in a different box with an Archie logo on it. Personally, I've never been a fan of the Japanese-inspired derivative design of characters variously known as "SD" (superdeformed - a term that [while technically accurate] seems to have fallen out of use since the Japanese realized what the English word 'deformed' implies in reference to the human body [which is pretty much the opposite of the intended 'cute']) or "small body" or "CB" (child body, a.k.a. 'chibi'). But then, I don't like Little Archie either, so there you go.

Funko made these Wacky Wobblers (aka "bobbleheads") back in 2002 (alas, only the two you see here):

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JUGHEAD & ARCHIE WINTER ANNUAL #24

Any good stories ie Boldman? I'm debating on whether to buy this or not. The last Jughead digest was really good.

Here's a list of some of the better stories in this issue (about half of them - Boldman stories in bold):

"Oh, Brother... or Sister" (Parent/Parent, 5 pages, NEW) - Jughead, Archie, Reggie & Jellybean in a 'Snow Day' story.

"The Ice Breaker" (Doyle/DeCarlo Jr.-J. DeCarlo, 5 pages) - Archie volunteers to do a favor for Mr. Lodge during an ice storm.

"Snow Day" (Boldman/Lindsey, 6 pages) - Jughead proves to Reggie that he can throw snowballs at people without them getting mad at him.

"Snow Bored" (Pellowski/Ruiz, 6 pages) - Archie's helps Mr. Lodge demonstrate the new Lodge 'Sno-Scoot', a powered snowboard, to prospective buyers.

"Hot Lips" (Doyle/Crane, 5 pages) - Jughead saves a little girl stuck in a snow drift, and is rewarded as a hero by her grateful older sister.

"Resolution Solution!!" (Golliher/Golliher, 6 pages) - Jughead makes himself sick by trying to eat healthy to set an example for Jellybean.

"=Garbage In=> <=Garbage Out=" (Boldman/Lindsey, 11 pages) - Jughead's dad assigns him the simple chore of taking out the garbage, but when Juggie fails to get it to the curb in time for the pickup, then tries to hide the evidence of his failure, a series of comedic consequences result.

"Bored Dumb!" (Pellowski/Ruiz, 5 pages) - Jughead & Archie are having a tough time making it through Study Hall without annoying The Bee.

"Nose Job" (Doyle/Goldberg, 6 pages) - When Betty tells Archie how her dad used to put her to sleep by rubbing her nose as a baby, Archie tries it on her, and she goes into a deep, unwakeable sleep, standing in the hallway of Riverdale High.

"Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back Inside... GNAWS!" (Margopoulis/Goldberg, 11 pages) - Archie & Jughead hire themselves out to Mr. Lodge for the weekend as mice exterminators at his mountain cabin.

"Hideaway" (Boldman/Lindsey, 5 pages) - Jughead is delighted to accidentally discover that his favorite old couch has hidden a fold-out bed all along.

"Cafeteria Crisis" (Golliher/Ruiz, 6 pages) - When Ms. Beazley goes on strike, the only people freaking out are Jughead and Mr. Weatherbee.

"Turn the Other Chick!" (Boldman/Lindsey, 6 pages) - Ethel is dismayed by all the attention Jughead is getting from other girls like Debbie Dalton and Joani Jumpp, but turnabout is fair play.

"Battling Butlers" (Boldman/Lindsey, 6 pages) - Reggie visits Veronica's house with his own butler in tow - Jughead, which leads to some confusion on the part of an important client of Mr. Lodge's as to who's butlering for whom.

Quote from: irishmoxie on January 01, 2017, 01:23:55 AM
Trying to slog through the mid 2000s Betty and Veronica stories (Issue 200 or so) to complete Betty and Veronica on comics.org. Poor Jeff Shultz. The stories aren't that great plot wise. Most of them just feature Betty and Veronica without any other characters.

Well, I've read #200. That was a pretty good story, I thought (Kathleen Webb, IIRC). I would say if they begin to get boring and repetitious after that... good possibility that they're Mike Pellowski stories?

Fun Fact: If you're reading an uncredited ACP story from the 1990s or early 2000s, and there's some minor incidental character in it named "Melanie" or "_______ Morgan", chances are pretty good that it's a Mike Pellowski story. Pellowski also wrote the Riverdale High prose novel series from 1992-1993, and adapted a bunch of them (under different titles) as the "New Look Archie Series", writing under the pseudonym Melanie J. Morgan. Since by this time he'd already written hundreds of comic stories for ACP, it's unknown why he employed a nom de plume for that series. Unless he was wary of the potential fan backlash, which in fact is exactly what ensued.

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Quote from: irishmoxie on December 31, 2016, 09:22:42 PM
Enchanted, a Disney movie with Amy Adams, dubbed in Cantonese.

Interesting. You understand Cantonese?

If so, it would seem ironic to me, as I would think there would be much more interesting films (i.e. films made in China, and otherwise not dubbed or subtitled in English) that you could be watching. I don't know anything about Enchanted (it could be a good film), but seems like it would be easily available in the language it was filmed in, wouldn't it?

I'm trying to learn Cantonese. I've already seen the movie in English before.

Have you seen The Mermaid, directed by Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle)? That's kind of a Disney-esque story that was (I believe) originally filmed in Cantonese.

EDIT: Oops, my bad. Should have checked first -- it's actually in Mandarin.

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B & V FRIENDS JUMBO COMICS #252 came in the mail today. I'll be reading that later tonight and tomorrow. Already read the new lead story by Dan Parent. Very unusual theme to this one, entitled "OWL Be Seeing You!". Seems B & V are very concerned about birds flying into the large glass windowpanes of the Lodge mansion, due to a flock of migrating owls passing through Riverdale. Can't say I've ever seen any sort of variation on this particular plot before. I guess Dan just reads things in the news or sees them on television, and decides to write a story about it. He did that last year with a Jughead story about 'hoverboards' (which actually look like some kind of spinoff of the Segway technology) being unsafe and prone to malfunctions. Oh well, I guess he must get bored doing variations of the same typical plots we've seen dozens of times already.

Yeah I was curious where the inspiration for this one came from as well. Who knows?? At least we're getting something different.

Yeah, and it fits with the general trend towards more stories demonstrating a pro-social awareness that seem to be a more common theme for B&V stories than for Archie and Jughead stories. The girls always seem to get involved in raising money for charity, and at one time they formed the Green Girls as a club to promote positive eco-action in the community. Those are just a couple of examples that come to mind off the top of my head, but I'm sure you could probably add half-a-dozen more if you really thought about it, or browsed through a dozen or so B&V digests, so promoting awareness of how human communities impact wildlife isn't much of a stretch. I think I'm gonna say that ACP has a bigger awareness of how much more B&V are role models for young female readers, as opposed to say, Archie and Jughead for young male readers.

That probably has something to do with the softening of Veronica's less-admirable personality traits in the 2000s as well, now that I think about it -- although it certainly has as much to do with keeping her as a likeable protagonist starring in her own title for a couple of decades, too. Cheryl certainly became more likeable as the protagonist of her own series during the years when she had one, and since she lost it and went back to being a mere supporting character, she gets cast in the villain role more often than not.

Quote from: irishmoxie on December 31, 2016, 09:22:42 PM
Enchanted, a Disney movie with Amy Adams, dubbed in Cantonese.

Interesting. You understand Cantonese?

If so, it would seem ironic to me, as I would think there would be much more interesting films (i.e. films made in China, and otherwise not dubbed or subtitled in English) that you could be watching. I don't know anything about Enchanted (it could be a good film), but seems like it would be easily available in the language it was filmed in, wouldn't it?

B & V FRIENDS JUMBO COMICS #252 came in the mail today. I'll be reading that later tonight and tomorrow. Already read the new lead story by Dan Parent. Very unusual theme to this one, entitled "OWL Be Seeing You!". Seems B & V are very concerned about birds flying into the large glass windowpanes of the Lodge mansion, due to a flock of migrating owls passing through Riverdale. Can't say I've ever seen any sort of variation on this particular plot before. I guess Dan just reads things in the news or sees them on television, and decides to write a story about it. He did that last year with a Jughead story about 'hoverboards' (which actually look like some kind of spinoff of the Segway technology) being unsafe and prone to malfunctions. Oh well, I guess he must get bored doing variations of the same typical plots we've seen dozens of times already.