Classic J/V feud cover:

Quote from: Archie Comics Collector(Kalell) on June 11, 2016, 01:11:25 AM
If any of you can think of other great Archie stories drawn by Fernando Ruiz to add to this tribute thread post pics and comments.

There were quite a few of them, back around the same time as "Robbing Arch of Riverwood Forest". "King of the Lost Land", "The Man From R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E.", "Night At the Comic Shop", among the mult-parters; and lots of good shorts in TALES FROM RIVERDALE DIGEST and JUGHEAD & FRIENDS DIGEST.

Jughead's Uncle Herman owns a novelty shop now, huh? I wonder whether it's THIS Uncle Herman,

Or the OTHER Uncle Herman??

Quote from: PTF on June 10, 2016, 10:15:52 AM

Trevor. Fine. I was wrong. It happens. Often. Yeah, I like him now that he's had more comic time and he's developed. I like that he's a dumb oaf with dumb luck who got what he wanted. Plus his hidden side. So yeah, he's going to be a fun addition to the cast.

Trevor kinda reminded me of a straight mashup of Reggie and Moose (only without the Midge angle -- because then he'd have to beat himself up).
Adam reminded me of Albert from JOSIE.

Quote from: Tuxedo Mark on June 10, 2016, 07:32:48 PM
I found #82 at the flea market years ago. At the time, I didn't know it was part of a larger story. It inspired me to write my first Betty fanfic, "Betty Cooper: This is Who I Am", in which Betty kills Archie.

A sequel to "Woman Scorned", no doubt. 

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According to Archie Comics, the new series will feature Josie uniting the band to take their big shot at musical stardom, only to contend with the machinations of Alexandra Cabot, the ever-Machiavellian daughter of the Pussycats' manager.

Alex and Alexandra's dad is the manager now? Where does that leave Alex?

That's what I was thinking.

I'm guessing either 1) Alex will come later or be picked as manager later (like Mr. Cabot/Pussycats will give the position to Alex instead of Alexandra), or 2) the summary meant that Mr. Cabot put up the funds for the Pussycats (like in the original comics) so he is technically in charge.

I can't see them leaving Alex out all together. Breaking up the Cabot twin terrors would be blasphemy lol

Calling Alexandra "Machiavellian" is kind of a stretch.

PREZ: THE FIRST TEEN PRESIDENT TP  - by Joe Simon (w)/ Jerry Grandenetti (a) + Neil Gaiman (w)/ Mike Allred (a) + Ed Brubaker (w)/ Eric Shanower (a)
PREZ was a bizarre concept for a comic book even by DC Comics standards of 1973. (His actual name is Prez Rickard, given no more justification in the story than "When I was born, my mom said 'Someday this baby will be president, so she named me Prez -- ' ".) This collection reprints all 4 issues of the 1970s series plus the unpublished story originally intended as issue #5. Also included is a story by Cary Bates from SUPERGIRL #10 (Oct. 1974) that featured a guest appearance by Prez, plus a 1993 issue of the Vertigo series THE SANDMAN by Neil Gaiman & Mike Allred that revisited the character, and a final one-shot Vertigo Visions from 1995 written by Ed Brubaker, "Smells Like Teen President". I guess it's no more bizarre than Jughead's Time Police, though. In fact, it's not hard to imagine something like President Archie coming out of that late '80s period of experimental titles from ACP.

Quote from: Barbaric William Dreadbeard on June 09, 2016, 10:53:42 AM
Another question similar to this, is should they cancel the entire digest line, and start over?

No. If they cancel the digests I'm done with ACP.

Quote from: terrence12 on June 10, 2016, 03:34:50 AM

Besides Archie comics now just mainly focus mostly on their rebooted titles, The dark circle (which might be a success or not) and Archie horror title which becomes a surprisingly hit known for its dark humor and throwback to the other horror comics.

But one opinion if any staff member of Archie comics read this thread don't you think its time they should cancel the line, its no longer attracting many readers anymore so its time to retire that sonic comic book line and maybe rebrand the Archie action line with original titles like reboot the Archie adventures from the 70's which were once drawn by a young Stan Goldberg from the 70's to early 80's including the reboot of explorers of the unknown.

Well, that's the reason that classic Archie titles got cancelled. They weren't selling. Accepting that that is the case, and if the current Archie Action (Sonic) line isn't selling well, then there's no reason to think that bringing back something like the original Life With Archie or Explorers of the Unknown would sell either.

Personally, I'd love it... which is exactly the sort of prognostication of doom you don't want. Anything I love is doomed to failure, it seems.

Quote from: terrence12 on June 09, 2016, 10:26:05 AM
Then maybe have "Archie Action" revise its brand by replacing the sonic comics books with the reimagining on the real "archie action-adventure"  line like archie's explorers of the unknown, pureheart the powerful,The reimagining homage of archie adventurous stories from the 70s and The Man from R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E. or at least make a archie universe  version of "agents of SHIELD" they would have some laughs like their original line but with tons of action and adventure something like a comedy-action movie or something.

I guess the only reason they should cancel the Sonic comics is if they aren't selling well enough. I personally don't care for them, but as long as there are enough people who do, why shouldn't they continue?


I would personally be all for your idea - although it seems to go contrary to everything ACP is doing these days in terms of new titles, so I doubt that something like it would actually happen. But my main point would be, whether they did it or not, they should only cancel the Sonic titles if sales are bad, because it would have nothing to do with any of the titles you propose. If Sonic sales are that bad, maybe they should do a stupid reboot of those. Or just cancel them.

Quote from: irishmoxie on June 09, 2016, 03:15:28 PM
How was the rest of that Archie digest? Does it have a lot of summer themed stories?

Not that I noticed. I didn't really pay that much attention to when the stories might have been taking place. I guess some or most of them could have been during the summer (there really weren't any "school" stories, but nothing like beach stories, either). The only story that stood out (apart from the longish Statue of Liberty story I mentioned) was one written by Bob Bolling and drawn by Rex Lindsey (first time I've ever seen that particular combo) about Mr. Lodge taking (teenage) Archie with him on a trip to find Mystic Lake's legendary lake monster, "Misty". It has sort of a strange ending, the kind that is becoming an earmark of Bolling's writing to me. Apart from those, nothing really stood out - a pretty average issue.

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I think you are right Tokyo. Whoever drew the head, its not Lucey. I'd be interested in seeing the original. I suppose they didn't cite the original story?

No citation, the digest is from the 90s. I feel like I've seen this comic before in another digest I own, but may just be imagining it...

Quote from: Thrillho on June 08, 2016, 01:50:40 AM

Where is this from? I'd like to read this story lol

It would not have looked out of place in the latest issue of Chilling Tales of Sabrina, in which Riverdale's resident witches, B&V, make a return appearance.

Quote from: daren on June 09, 2016, 05:31:47 AM

I read Archie Double Digest 269, the one with Fernando's final Archie story. "Happiness is a Clean Pup" about Archie and Jughead starting their own dog washing business.












Pretty soon they expand their business to washing cats:





Obviously the story is funny and Fernando's art is as great as ever. Now we won't be seeing it in any new ACP stories anymore and no need to say to anyone here how much this sucks. Coincidental that this story comes out the same day that ACP announces their new Josie reboot as if as distraction, maybe when Dan Parent does his last story we'll get news of a Reggie reboot. With Reggie in juvie hall or maybe the psych ward if that isn't too tame for them by then.

Started reading that yesterday as well. Usually I sit and read the whole digest (Annuals and Jumbos included) in one sitting, but for some reason I fell asleep after reading (I guess) about 50 pages (it was in the middle of the Statue of Liberty story).

And now I'm wondering just what happened to that B&V FRIENDS DOUBLE DIGEST #248, and if I will ever see it, or if it was cancelled with no announcement.

Quote from: invisifan on June 08, 2016, 11:49:26 PM
Is it just me or does the Francavilla cover look a lot like it's riffing on hs upcoming AWA cover ... 

Quote from: spazaru on June 08, 2016, 06:47:36 PM
This looks amazing; if the writing is good, I think it will sell big time!

The Veronica Fish variant is really cool.  The attention to detail with the bands is great.  Can't believe there's a Shonen Knife poster on their wall.  Someone knows their girl bands!

Also spotted: album covers for Talking Heads (True Stories), Ramones, Run DMC, The Archies, a poster for Chuck Berry and Lloyd Price, and a Playbill for Hedwig and the Angry Inch.