Quote from: steveinthecity on November 05, 2016, 07:49:18 PM
Not too many Archie related bath/shower themed covers that I know of.

Singin' in the bathtub
Sitting all alone
Tearing out a tonsil
Just like a baritone

Never take a shower
It's an awful pain
Singing in the shower
Is like singing in the rain

Oh, there's dirt to be abolished
But don't forget one thing
While the body's washed and polished
Sing, brother, sing!

You can yodel opera (yodel-ay-dee-oh!)
Even while you scrub
Everybody's happy while singin' in the tub

I'm forever blowing bubbles
Pretty bubbles in the air

You can be Sinatra
Soakin' as you croon (shoo-bee doo-bee doo)
Hitting all the high notes
Never out of tune

Singin' every number
From your favorite show (Oklahoma!)
Droppin' down from forte
To pianissimo

I'm singing in the bathtub
Happy once again
Watching all my troubles
Go swimming down the drain

Singing through the soap suds
Life is full of hope
You can sing with feeling
While feeling for the soap

Oh! A ring around the bathtub
It isn't so nice to see
But a ring around the bathtub
Is a rainbow to me

Reaching for a towel
Ready for a rub
Everybody's happy
While singing in the tub

Astro Boy (1963) - Just the episodes based on the original manga stories (so far).

COBRA: The Animation (2008) - Remake of an old 1980s manga+anime series. Really good animation (much better than 1980s), but they kept all the original character designs and didn't reboot anything (new stories this time around).

GODZILLA ISLAND (1997-98) - A delightfully bizarre Japanese kids' show (256 3-minute episodes, that tell a serialized story, in arcs of 10-20 episodes or so). There are only 3 actors, and the monsters are all portrayed by their own vinyl toy figures (and customized versions used for more range of motion). So... kind of like puppets, but not quite? Maybe a little like Robot Chicken, but not done for parody purposes -- at least on the surface level. I'm totally hooked on this.

Quote from: BettyReggie on November 03, 2016, 06:16:37 PM
I read each of books for 12 minutes
Betty & Veronica Comics Double Digest #235
B & V Jumbo Comics Digest #250
Betty & Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #247
I finished Betty & Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #233

Have you ever tried to figure out approximately how many pages (of classic Archie comics) you can read in 12 minutes? I realize other comics (including New Riverdale) take longer to read, but I seem to be able to breeze through a Jumbo Comics digest (skipping the ads and Little Archie) in say, somewhere around an hour or two, depending on whether I'm pausing to notice certain things about the writing or artwork.

Quote from: BettyReggie on November 05, 2016, 09:55:58 AM
Midtown Comics says that B & V #2 is coming out on November 9 2016 which I preorder on May 29 2016 & I preorder B & V #3 from Midtown Comics back on July 22 2016 & they say B & V #3 will be coming out on November 16th 2016. Let's hope that true. It would nice to get 2 of their comics in a month.  I wonder if the next that tackles this comic will take this long to hang the comic come out.

Diamond Comics Distributors is giving an estimated shipping date of January 18 for B&V #3, and they should know. At least until ACP tells them otherwise.

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on August 22, 2016, 04:50:42 AM
I was just fooling around with some pencil drawings I found online. The figures of Betty and Reggie came from separate cover variants that Dan Parent drew for ARCHIE #666. I saved both of those variant cover pencil sketches, opened them both up in Paint and cropped and erased the elements (background figures) in both images that I didn't want. Then I pasted the Betty figure and the Reggie figure into the same image. I noticed in both drawings that their hands were on their hips with their elbows sticking out, and I realized that if you overlapped the images, it looked like Betty and Reggie were arm-in-arm, so I did that, and erased the overlapping lines. This just turned out to be really fortuitous, because with the two separate figures lined up correctly according to height, the way that Dan drew them in the original pencil sketches, their eyes look as if they're looking right at each other! The original idea was to tone down the blacks here so that I'd have some light gray lines and I intended to print this out and ink it myself, and white-out the stray lines I hadn't already erased after inking it. That will take a while though, so I'll just show you what I've got so far. You can see a lot of broken lines where I had to erase stuff, but it's pretty clear for me to see where the ink lines need to go, so no big deal. Here you can see the covers those figures of Betty and Reggie came from, as they were printed in the final cover versions inked by Rich Koslowski.

Somehow I just never got back to fooling around with this image I put together from Dan Parent's original pencil sketches back in August (!), but tonight I found the image again and printed out a copy, so I could tighten up the pencils, add some different line weights and a little bit of texture. I'm still not even at the inking stage here, yet, but I just thought I'd show you the process of how it's coming along (compared to the raw image I pasted together above). Hopefully it won't take me another three months to complete this with final inks and colors.

Quote from: BettyReggie on November 02, 2016, 04:32:57 PM
Now Midtown Comics now says B & V #3 won't be out till November 16 that's 13 days & 7 hours & 31 minutes & 30 seconds

Did you mean B&V #2, not #3?

Because B&V #2 will be out next Wednesday, November 9th. That means #3 won't be out the week after that, or it would be really bizarre if it was.

Quote from: BettyReggie on November 04, 2016, 09:58:20 PM
No RiverDale Podcast tomorrow 😣 😩 😯

I think that belongs in the "Days we USED to look forward to as Archie Fans" thread.

Which, now that I think about "Days we USED to look forward to"... it's probably better not to think about that.

I just read an old issue of ARCHIE & FRIENDS where B&V think that Archie's putting the moves on Midge (SPOILER: They're actually practicing lines for the school play, "Romeo & Juliet"), so B&V conspire with Moose to make Archie jealous, and help him get back at Midge. But after being kissed by MOOSE, Betty falls into a swoon, and later on, despite Veronica's reluctance to go along with the plot, after he kisses her, she goes all melty, too. In a not-too-unforeseen last panel gag, Reggie gets beat up by Moose again, even though he only showed up in the story 2 panels earlier.

GEN 13: BOOTLEG #8, 9, & 10 - I'm not really a fan of Gen 13, but I found these in a 50-cent box, and they were written and drawn by Adam Warren (who is the best of the American manga writer/artists, and previously worked on Dark Horse's DIRTY PAIR and BUBBLEGUM CRISIS Ameri-manga spinoffs), so I picked them up. It was a fun read, if a little light on anything but crazy action and comedy, but that's fine for a fast-reading 3-part story. I'd read more Gen 13 stories drawn by him if I could find them cheap.
BATMAN '66 MEETS STEED AND MRS. PEEL #5 (of 6)
HALLOWEEN COMIC FEST 2016 DC SUPER HERO GIRLS - Can't beat the price ($0.00).

Quote from: BettyReggie on November 03, 2016, 08:17:34 AM
Will you keep buying Josie & Pussycats DeCarlo Rules?  Out of all the reboots that they have it's my least favorite.   

I didn't even buy #2, I just borrowed a copy. I only spent the money on Josie #1 to get the Gisele cover variant. I may or may not read future issues, or just check out the back of the book (like I do with Archie) to see what the reprint is - the last issue of Archie that I actually read the main story was issue #2, though I've read every issue of Jughead, and B&V #1. I've been friends with the owner of my LCS for over 20 years, and I spend enough money with him that he lets me borrow stuff and bring it back, or just read it in the store, so everything on that list above between JOSIE #2 and CATWOMAN: ELECTION NIGHT #1 was just read in the store or borrowed (but the rest of that stuff isn't a complete list of the books I purchased this week, either).

I could probably warm up to Audrey Mok's artwork (it's not bad) over time, but I just don't care for the writing. Other than getting that Gisele cover on Josie #1, the only other New Riverdale comic books that I actually bought and paid for were Jughead #9 and 10 (and I plan on getting #11, to complete the Sabrina story, as well). After that, who knows.

2000 AD PROG 2000 - The 2000th issue of this long-running (since 1977, almost 40 years) British science-fiction weekly. Surely some kind of record for longevity for any English-language comic book (although the early numbers were in a color/black & white tabloid newsprint format, much like a Sunday newspaper supplement). That's over 60,000 pages of comics from one magazine, and in fact the comic outlived its original publisher, Fleetway Publications, and is now published by a company named Rebellion. The original editor could hardly have imagined in 1977 that the comic would last past the then near-futuristic sounding year 2000 AD, and it's to their credit that the comic has never been rebooted or renumbered, sailing blithely past the year 2000 with not so much as a name change to "3000 AD" or something like that. It's a concession to tradition and its loyal following that is sure to puzzle the uninitiated.

This issue brought back a number of the early classic features - besides the cornerstone feature, Judge Dredd, it included individual strips for the features Nemesis the Warlock, Rogue Trooper, Psi-Judge Anderson, and Sinister Dexter (as well as having a crossover with Strontium Dog in the Judge Dredd strip). Normally I don't get this comic on a regular basis, as the features are usually all continued from issue to issue (and in fact, there's a single new feature beginning its first prog in this issue called "Counterfeit Girl"), but just buy the later graphic novel compilations of the features I like, but that said, this is a good sampler for anyone vaguely interested or for some past reader revisiting. It also brought back a number of the original creators from the earliest days of the comic, most of whom are still with us and still out there creating comics, although some have since moved on to more lucrative careers elsewhere in the industry. The list of names of creators that began their careers working for 2000AD is truly a long one. In case you're wondering, "Prog", in the future slang of the 2000AD comic, refers to the number of the programme (because the comic maintains the fiction that it's edited by an alien named Tharg - seen here popping out of a birthday cake on the cover - who assigns the various features to his various 'creator droids').



As a curious side note, this isn't the first time 2000AD had celebrated with a number Prog 2000 -- back at the end of the last millenium, the comic jumped ahead of itself (in what should have been, by a proper accounting, Prog 1174, dated December 15, 1999) to usher in the year 2000 with an earlier Prog 2000. The cover artwork by Brian Bolland shows (left to right) Nemesis, Nicolai Dante, Strontium Dog, Judge Dredd, and Rogue Trooper planting the 2000 AD flag to claim its preeminent position as 'king of the hill' (represented by a large pile of now-defunct comic publications) of all British comic books.

ASTRO BOY - Most of the stories from 1959, including "The Eyes of Christ", "Ivan the Fool", "The Secret of the Egyptian Conspirators", "S.O.S. From a Satellite", "Gademu" and "Subterranean Tank", as well as watching the associated stories (where applicable) adapted into episodes of the 1963 anime.
BETTY AND VERONICA HOLIDAY ANNUAL #248
JOSIE & THE PUSSYCATS #2 - Meh. Good classic reprint in the back, though.
EVIL DEAD 2: REVENGE OF JACK THE RIPPER (one-shot)
RICK AND MORTY #19
MOON KNIGHT #8
SOUTHERN B@STARDS #15
DEATH OF HAWKMAN #2 (of 6)
CATWOMAN: ELECTION NIGHT #1 (one-shot)
2000 AD PROG 2000
ROM #4
TRANSFORMERS TILL ALL ARE ONE: REVOLUTION #1 (one-shot)
TRANSFORMERS: REVOLUTION #1 (one-shot)
REVOLUTION #4 (of 5)
CBLD LIBERTY ANNUAL 2016
SPOOKHOUSE #1

Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on November 01, 2016, 06:22:06 PM
What's with all those lines on their faces, though? They never draw B&V that way 

I think that THEY think it makes them look like a cartoon drawing (but it doesn't, it just makes them look weird). If they wanted the cartoon effect, they could do something with their eyes, like painting a larger white area around their actual eye, and then doing the DeCarlo cartoon eyelash (which is really a single line with a hook at the end) in heavy black.

How come all the Betty cosplayers I see never have the ponytail? 

Quote from: steveinthecity on November 01, 2016, 09:36:27 PM

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on November 01, 2016, 01:50:49 PM

Quote from: steveinthecity on October 31, 2016, 04:52:53 PM

I'm hoping there's a member here who fancies him or herself a "soap expert" and can enlighten me on all eighteen possible uses for this product.  Thank you in advance.

No real expertise required, Steve -- just about a minute to google it.

(snip)

Oh.       I was using Turbo Gopher and Lycos search engines.  No wonder.   

I don't know much about this, but I've heard some people don't like it because they think Google collects data on them or is tracking them somehow (something like that, I'm not exactly clear on the specifics). All I know is that it seems to get more relevant results than other search engines I've used. In this case, after I'd typed in "Brommer's soap", one of the half-dozen suggested searches was "18 uses", so I went with that, and sure enough, found the info in the first result that I clicked on.