I've had the same problem trying to reply to threads. It just loads a blank page.

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on December 06, 2016, 06:34:35 PM
DEATH OF HAWKMAN #3 (of 6)
TRANSFORMERS MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE REVOLUTION #1 (one-shot)
REGGIE AND ME #1 (of 5)
JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS #3
MOON KNIGHT #9
SAVAGE DRAGON #218
MICKEY MOUSE #324
DEADMAN: DARK MANSION OF FORBIDDEN LOVE #2 (of 3)

How was Josie and Reggie?

^^I definitely gotta pick these up.

I always wanted to check out the Elevenaire stories. They have a digital collection of them. Good to know they're worth checking out.


Yay for more Trula Twyst. I'm still looking for a copy or reprints of her original appearance.


Edit: Read the Elevenaire stories. Loved it! It's actually funny and I love the whimsical style. Did Craig Boldman only write for the Jughead series?

White #1 - a comic about a shipwrecked girl surrounded by sharks. I loved it! Very compelling. The artwork is photorealistic. More comics like this please!

Quote from: BettyReggie on November 26, 2016, 02:25:00 PM
I read
Reggie & Me #1- Sandy Jarell cover
I loved it. The comic is so colorful. Reggie looks awesome in it. It seems like Midge is kinda friendly with Reggie. She & Moose are at Reggie's party. And Veronica is also having a party the same night & everyone heads to it. So Reggie has to get revenge on Veronica & Archie for ruining his party. There's no way in old comics that would ever happen that Midge would even talk to Reggie.  Midge is even happy when Reggie says he going get s dog but he wants her help him pick one out but she has a Study Date with Moose which makes Reggie angry. He just want to spend some time with her.

So who's the Me in Reggie and Me?

Quote from: Fernando Ruiz on November 25, 2016, 05:42:09 PM

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on November 24, 2016, 12:08:03 AM

She's a Tom DeFalco creation.

Well sort of...


I think I've told this story before... Archie Comics president Mike Pellerito was obsessed with bringing diversity to the Riverdale cast who he constantly described as being "too lily white." A noble enough sentiment, but he often urged us to shoe-horn Chuck and Nanci into stories and cover gags where they really served no purpose other than to be "the black friend." There were quite a few covers I'd drawn where Pellerito's only response would be, "Could you put Chuck in there?"


Eventually Pellerito decided that Chuck and Nanci were pretty boring and ordered a moratorium on his previous unspoken standing decree that they be included on every cover. He also determined that Riverdale needed new exciting minorities. From this sprang Trev and Toni Topaz.


I wasn't there for Trev, but I was in the office the day Toni Topaz was created by committee by the entire art department. You should've heard some of the other names being suggested for the character! I wish I could remember them, but I do recall they all sounded like we were naming the first stripper in Riverdale. Since I was right there in the office, I was asked to draw a few sketches of this new character. I had a magazine with me with a picture of the singer, Rihannain it. In the picture, she was wearing a hat. This became my inspiration for Toni. I forget if I decided to give her the pink hair or if someone else did.


Toni was put into that first Jughead story and almost immediately afterwards, Archie Comics went into one of its recent big money crunches. As a result, the digests saw a huge cutback in new material. Toni continued to appear on almost all of the digest covers but by that point, she'd appeared in only one or two stories. Most readers' responses to her were, "Who's THAT?"

More stories like this!! Fernando, you need to write an autobiography.


The character of Toni has a lot of potential. She's certainly more interesting than Chuck or Nancy. They could've used her in a lot of stories but the budget crunch explains why she was just relegated to digest covers.

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on November 10, 2016, 01:26:56 AM
Here is the cover of the long-delayed ARCHIE COMICS SUPER SPECIAL #7, on sale the week of 11-16-2016.

QuoteARCHIE COMIC SUPER SPECIAL #7
ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS
(W/A) Various (CA) Dan Parent

Join in on the fun and adventure in the the town of Riverdale! Follow the hilarious antics of the lovable goofball, Archie Andrews, and the rest of his pals and gals! This magazine features the greatest stories from the Archie vault, plus creator spotlights, the latest news and much, much more!

[EDIT (11-25-16): updated to include contents listing.]

ARCHIE in "Christmas Socking!"¹ - 6 pages
ARCHIE in "Christmas Spirit" - 5 pages
ARCHIE in ""More Pull Than Talent!"² - 1 page
BETTY & VERONICA in "Nursery Rhyme Time" - 5 pages (non-Xmas)
JOSIE in "All For the Birds!" - 6 pages (non-Xmas)
LITTLE ARCHIE in "Spread the Cheer" - 5 pages
ARCHIE Pin-Up - 1 page
ARCHIE in "Snow Mistake"² - 6 pages (non-Xmas)
BETTY & VERONICA in "Do No Evil"² - 6 pages (non-Xmas [takes place at Xmastime, but really has nothing to do with the holiday])
CHERYL BLOSSOM in "Hot Stuff" - 5 pages (non-Xmas)
MOOSE in "Snow Drifting" - 5 pages
SABRINA in "The Fruit Cake" - 5 pages
VERONICA in "A Symbol Problem" - 5 pages (non-Xmas)
ARCHIE AND ME (Mr. Weatherbee) in "Wanted: Santa Claus"² - 12 pages
ETHEL in "Guile Style" - 1 page
BETTY in "Wrap Flap" - 1 page
JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS in "Gift Rapped" - 6 pages
SABRINA in "Ice Folly" - 6 pages (non-Xmas)
BETTY'S DIARY "Red and Green Blues" - 5 pages
MR. WEATHERBEE Pin-Up² - 1 page
REGGIE in "Seasonal Smootch"¹ - 6 pages
ARCHIE in "Ho-Ho-Humm" - 5 pages
LITTLE ARCHIE in "Santa Spirit" - 5 pages
ETHEL in "Appeal Zeal" - 1/2 page
MOOSE in "Yule Fool" - 1/2 page
ARCHIE in "Close Shave" - 5 pages
+plus 14 pages of advertisements (mostly for New Riverdale comics)

Notes:
1 - previously reprinted in ARCHIE'S CLASSIC CHRISTMAS STORIES, VOL. 1 (2002)
2 - previously reprinted in ARCHIE CLASSICS SERIES VOL. 1: CHRISTMAS CLASSICS (2011)

Comments: I'd read most of these before, and there's some duplication of material from earlier ACP Christmas TP collections, but not too bad. Overall percentage of Xmas stories to non- is still pretty high, and the mix between older and more recent stories is varied (a good thing). As well, they managed to include a variety of characters represented, not just Archie but B&V, Josie, Sabrina, Reggie, Mr. Weatherbee, and Moose (and of course, a couple of Little Archie stories, but OK, it's Christmas). No Jughead stories, though? Overall I'd rate this pretty well, say about 8 out of 10.

Lots of reprints from their other Christmas collections. I collect the Giant Series Christmas issues. They still couldn't find other Christmas stories?


I indexed this collection at GCD if anyone's interested.

I saw this on Archie Comics' Twitter. While some of the clothes are cute, even at 40% off they are ridiculously overpriced. The young girls who would wear these clothes probably don't even know who Betty and Veronica are.


I like the Betty and Veronica shirts you posted above at the bargain price of $148.


The Betty and Veronica letter jacket (posted on the above website) is also cute but it's not listed for sale.


The printed dresses with Betty and Veronica's faces are interesting but I'm not sure who would walk around in those.

Dog sweaters and Christmas themed dog costumes

Return of the Digital Exclusives thread!!

Pep Digital #185: Archie & Friends Thanksgiving Feast (62 pages)
Thanks for Giving (Betty and Veronica) 6 pg. from Betty and Veronica #168
A Bird in the Hand (Archie) 6 pg. from Archie Comics Digest #239
Holiday Spirit! (Jughead) 5 pg. from ? The Andrews are haunted by a "poultry"-geist: the spirit of last Thanksgiving's turkey.
The Gourd, the Bad, and the Ugly or Let the Gourd Times Roll! (Archie) 5 pg. from ? Archie grows a giant squash to impress a country bumpkin girl.
A Fowl Scent (Betty and Veronica) 5 pg. from Betty and Veronica Spectacular #6.
Thanks is in Giving part 1 and 2 (Jughead) 11 pg. from Archie Double Double #89.
The Thanksgiving (Little Archie) 9 pg. from ? Little Archie visits his grandpa's house for Thanksgiving and recalls a story involving a raccoon.
Thanks a Lot! (Sabrina) 6 pg. from Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1997 series)
The Brown and Gold (Betty and Veronica) 6 pg. from ? 1940's story drawn by Bill Vigoda. The girls have a discussion at Pop Tate's about who Archie is taking to the Thanksgiving dance.

For some reason no credits were posted on the 1st pages of the stories in this collection. There was only a big list of "Featuring" names in the beginning.

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on November 24, 2016, 12:00:56 AM

Quote from: BettyReggie on November 23, 2016, 07:50:54 PM
I'm  just so upset that this comic is coming out so slowly. What's going on? Too many delays. Do you they will change the artist soon?

#3 is the last issue for Adam Hughes.

Rumor or truth? Who's the next artist?

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on November 19, 2016, 08:22:27 PM

Quote from: steveinthecity on November 19, 2016, 07:28:49 PM

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on November 19, 2016, 12:13:52 PM

Quote from: steveinthecity on November 19, 2016, 04:42:57 AM
Adam Hughes art doesn't seem a big plus here btw.

I'm not sure in what sense you mean that, but after the long wait since the B&V reboot was first hyped, Hughes can't bedazzle the way he did years ago. It's still good art relative to the median of the industry in the broader sense, but it's not ranking high relative to Hughes' own oeuvre. The coloring here certainly doesn't help much.

What you stated was pretty much what I meant.  I don't collect posters, so as I offered in SAGG's now defunct thread of whether Art or Story is more important to a comic, I'm leaning towards story in this instance.  I like that Hughes makes Ethel somewhat homely and that Hot Dog smokes, but beyond that, the art does nothing  for me.  Not a plus by my measure. Being "median" doesn't resonate with me here.

I don't think it's median. I said it's good relative to the median for the industry. I think the artwork in ARCHIE is median or below median; none of the artists who've drawn that book have impressed me in the slightest. The artwork in B&V is above that, but it's not good art compared to Adam Hughes' other work. It's only "not good" relative to my high level of expectations for a B&V comic book drawn by Adam Hughes.

When you consider what he could be getting paid for his art by other publishers, he's got to be the biggest financial drain on ACP's resources of any of the artists working on the New Riverdale titles so far, who are all relative newcomers to the industry compared to Hughes, and IMO the costs to the company aren't worth the results. I think the relative sales on the B&V title bear that out as well.

B&V isn't selling well?

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on November 21, 2016, 12:47:46 AM

Quote from: irishmoxie on November 19, 2016, 07:59:41 PMYay. Return of the Super Special Magazine. Hopefully they will have more themed ones like Christmas.

Super Special was originally a quarterly, and ALL of the issues were seasonally-themed. Besides the Christmas issue, there was one for Valentines Day/Spring, Summer, and Fall. If you check past issues, you'll see the season's name highlighted somewhere on the cover. Here's hoping that ACSS resumes the quarterly schedule, but this new cover for ACSS #8 doesn't seem seasonally-themed in any way. Maybe they're hedging their bets in case there's a delay in shipping this one on time, because one of the problems with a seasonally-themed quarterly was that if it doesn't come out ON TIME, then the season-geared contents are useless.

I was disappointed with the newest Super Special. Not nearly as many Christmas stories, more "snow" themed stories.

Quote from: irishmoxie on November 19, 2016, 07:59:41 PMThe Josie 80 pager I'll get just because it's Josie even though they are reprinting the first appearance AGAIN...grrr.

BUT, did you notice THIS in the solicitation copy?? >> "Starting with their first appearances and going in chronological order" <<  Of course by "their" they mean the Pussycats, not "Josie and Friends", so that would mean all of the stories that followed chronologically after the initial formation of the Pussycats. Still pretty good, and worth having that first story again now, if it's appearing at the beginning of a chronological reprint.

I doubt they'll publish everything Josie in order but one can hope. 80 pages is maybe 3-4 issues.

QuoteYeah, I think what happened there where they're suddenly practically shouting the fact that all of the digests have a NEW LEAD STORY, is that they realized that the generic solicitation copy that they usually use for any kind of reprint book wasn't doing any good for selling digests to anybody. The majority of their 8-12 year old readers are probably not (or only vaguely) aware of which stories are new, and the parents buying them for them certainly don't care, and aren't reading any solicitations for upcoming comics in the first place. The ONLY people who care whether the digests have new stories are the older fans who buy them online or through comic shops, or digitally, and they're the ONLY ones besides retailers reading the solicitations.

Yes but they don't make it very obvious on the covers that there's a new story inside.

Archie Comics Super Special #7 - not as many Christmas stories as I was hoping. Lots of snow stories.