Quote from: ASS-P on June 13, 2016, 06:23:39 PM
...Thank you .
  When I was fairly new back here in San Francisco , in a Walgreen's store (On Mission Street , on the same block as the ~ alas ~ now-closed Cartoon Art Museum .) , in their magazine rack ~ I saw BETTY AND VERONICA #277 . I bought it .
  They had a couple of copies , neatly racekd , no other comics in their racks .
  It odd/interesting to me how you sometimes see this , just a couple , or just one , even , comic book showing up in a " normal " magazine rack .
  Unfortunately , I missed #278  ~ I recently realized that I missed the " final : ARCHIE ish , #66 , devili shly  , too ...........

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Quote from: ASS-P on June 13, 2016, 02:32:06 PM
Can anyone direct me , please , to a site where the last few ishes of the now-discontinued last B&V covers are up , please ?

MyComicShop.com

Both ARCHIE #666 and BETTY AND VERONICA #278 have 6 different covers, all by Dan Parent. At least they both went out on a high note.

Quote from: nuageo on June 13, 2016, 06:14:00 PM
Josie and the Pussycats #1 by Gisele Lagace

They just sold a copy!

Quote from: ASS-P on June 13, 2016, 02:32:06 PM
Can anyone direct me , please , to a site where the last few ishes of the now-discontinued last B&V covers are up , please ?

MyComicShop.com

Quote from: ASS-P on June 13, 2016, 01:55:25 PM
...Meaning that the choice of stories that are reprinted has gone downhill in quality ?

No, I was thinking QUANTITY, meaning they are reprinting fewer stories than ever because the digests are all that is left (and last year, JUGHEAD AND ARCHIE and ARCHIE'S FUNHOUSE got cut back to 6x/year frequency). No more trade paperbacks (apart from those that just reprint the same digests, i.e. 1000 Page & Giant Comics) since a year ago (single exception was last October's BEST OF ARCHIE COMICS: 75 YEARS 75 STORIES -- TBOAC is an annual affair, or was... remains to be seen).


But since you bring it up, yes I think the overall assembly of stories for digests has gone downhill (apart from new stories). There used to be a better variety of stories, but now it seems they are aiming more and more for a "homogenized" approach (I call it "bland").

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Quote from: Musical_Necromancer on June 12, 2016, 06:39:14 PM
characters costumes tend to evolve over time and Harley Quinn's Original costume doesn't lend itself well to Live Action...plus the jester costume just comes off as a bit too goofy now a days

Yes. And I tend to lose interest when they change things about a character that were part of that character's initial attraction for me. It sucks that there's no longer any room for the "comic" in comic books.  They were more entertaining when they took themselves less seriously.

I'm not saying that but if everything stayed the same we'd get bored eventually....this is a character that wasn't even meant to last and the only reason her comic book took off like it did is because they didn't stick so close to the animated series where she was nothing more than the joker's goofy sidekick

they took chances with her and obviously it paid off

I suppose I seem to imply that I'm singling the character of Harley out as an example of the bad sort of change in comics. That really isn't particularly the case, as in this specific example it's DC Comics in general that's gone off the rails. I just can't seem to enjoy any of that company's mainstream universe titles the way I once did about a decade ago. I guess Batman and Harley were really the only things left that were selling, which is why all the "rebirthing" is happening all over again -- DC's sales across the board having plunged drastically since the rebooted "New 52" of five years ago. That tends to make Harley Quinn look like more of a success than she really is, when really all we're talking about is less of a failure, in relative terms.

Quote from: daren on June 13, 2016, 12:44:52 AM
I think they might be cousins.

Uncle Herman Jones (wacky inventor) is the brother of Forsythe II.

Bingo Wilkin's Uncle Herman (ex-professional baseball player) is the brother of Wilma Wilkin and Gladys Jones, which also makes him Jughead's uncle. Bingo Wilkin is Jughead's cousin.

Quote from: Musical_Necromancer on June 12, 2016, 06:39:14 PM
characters costumes tend to evolve over time and Harley Quinn's Original costume doesn't lend itself well to Live Action...plus the jester costume just comes off as a bit too goofy now a days

Yes. And I tend to lose interest when they change things about a character that were part of that character's initial attraction for me. It sucks that there's no longer any room for the "comic" in comic books.  They were more entertaining when they took themselves less seriously.

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Quote from: ASS-P on June 11, 2016, 04:06:41 PM
Once and for all , is the balance of the Archie digests , in general ~ Or , HAS it been , since I get the impression that , in my absence , something has gone a little rotten in Mamaroneck business-wise !!!!!!!!!!! Has it , up until Donald Trump threw his hairpiece in the ring , say , the recent past ~ Have the Archie digests generally had (1) The first story and (2) the last story being new ones ?
  Plus maybe some other full-fleged stories , and some filllers/gags of some kind .
  What has the general balance/placing of new against old material in the digests been ?

Since the middle of 2014, the first (a.k.a. "lead") story in every digest has been new. The last few months of solicitations for forthcoming ACP products have contained a number solicitation descriptions for digests in which the "lead stories" have NOT been described as "new", but instead "fun", "entertaining", "exciting", etc. which leads me to believe that there is no longer any guarantee that each digest will contain a new story. I suspect they are just keeping Dan Parent employed for as long as it takes to use up the inventory of already-purchased scripts.

You don't think they'll eventually get rid of Mr. Parent after getting enough scripts written and drawn, do you?

I suppose as long as they're still publishing Archie digests, they will need covers. Also artwork for various merchandising efforts. I'm afraid even the reprinting of classic Archie stories has sunk to an all-time low.

Quote from: Musical_Necromancer on June 12, 2016, 01:59:43 PM
i do hope there's enough action in this series

Since it's about a girl pop band, I'm sure there will be giant explosions, exciting car chases, gunplay with high caliber weapons, villains falling off tall buildings, and lots of people getting punched in the face. It's all part of ACP's forward-thinking plan to make comics "just like the big guys".

The bizarre, surrealistic music videos of "Harajuku Pop Princess" Kyary Pamyu Pamyu on YouTube.

Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on June 12, 2016, 10:52:57 AM
According to this article from archiecomics.com posted on May 25, 2016,  Bob Bolling "continues to draw new stories featured in the Archie Digests..."


http://archiecomics.com/legendary-little-archie-artist-bob-bolling-drawing-new-stories-87/

We shall see. I don't recall any new stories drawn by him mentioned in the last couple of months' worth of ACP solicitations.

More Season 1 episodes of Miraculous Ladybug on YouTube.

Yesterday I watched Dawn of the Planet of the Apes on DVD. What a great film. The first one was really good, but the sequel is excellent, even better. THAT, in my opinion, is how to do a reboot. They really took only the most basic concept from the original film franchise (ignoring the original novel by Pierre Boule entirely, as well as the atrocious Tim Burton reboot misfire) to come up with a completely original new spin, with an all-new story and characters (there's one character who's only vaguely based on one from the previous movie franchise). An intelligent, well-scripted and acted film, and fairly scary to boot. Definitely much more believable in this new incarnation.

I used to like her, back when she looked like THIS:


Of course, that was back before all of THIS happened:

Quote from: ASS-P on June 11, 2016, 04:06:41 PM
Once and for all , is the balance of the Archie digests , in general ~ Or , HAS it been , since I get the impression that , in my absence , something has gone a little rotten in Mamaroneck business-wise !!!!!!!!!!! Has it , up until Donald Trump threw his hairpiece in the ring , say , the recent past ~ Have the Archie digests generally had (1) The first story and (2) the last story being new ones ?
  Plus maybe some other full-fleged stories , and some filllers/gags of some kind .
  What has the general balance/placing of new against old material in the digests been ?

Since the middle of 2014, the first (a.k.a. "lead") story in every digest has been new. The last few months of solicitations for forthcoming ACP products have contained a number solicitation descriptions for digests in which the "lead stories" have NOT been described as "new", but instead "fun", "entertaining", "exciting", etc. which leads me to believe that there is no longer any guarantee that each digest will contain a new story. I suspect they are just keeping Dan Parent employed for as long as it takes to use up the inventory of already-purchased scripts.

According to Fernando Ruiz, the only classic Archie creator actively creating new work for ACP is Dan Parent. Of course, there still exists an inventory of scripts which had already been paid for that DP will probably be drawing. For as long as that lasts, anyway. Somehow I don't expect to see any more new stories in the digests by the time 2016 ends.