Quote from: daren on June 06, 2016, 12:49:58 AM

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on June 01, 2016, 02:05:39 AM

The only relationship here is that they're mutual co-prisoners who can't stand each other. But it does look as though Mr. Lodge and Betty are next in line to see the Incan Justice of the Peace.

Yuck.

Relax. I meant I don't attach much significance to some ritual performed on unwilling prisoners about to become human sacrifices. Human sacrifice = Yuck -- who cares about some stupid ritual involving Veronica/Jughead or Betty/Mr. Lodge. Priorities.

Wow, they REALLY must have done something to set Mr. Lodge off. Normally he doesn't greet them at the door and threaten them with a beating with a golf club.

Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on June 03, 2016, 11:51:50 PM

Is that from that same story where they had to pretend to be married by being partnered up (Archie/Betty, Veronica/Jughead) for a class project in managing a family budget?

Saturday:
SUPER 'SUCKERS #1 & 2


Sunday:
ARCHIE ANNUAL COMICS DIGEST #48 (1986)
MISTER X: RAZED TP

ARCHER: The Complete Season Six, Disc 2 (6 episodes + bonus content)

Quote from: Sitcomics on June 02, 2016, 09:32:55 AM
That's fantastic!   I've packaged your books (and free Super 'Suckers super sticker) and will ship them today or tomorrow, depending on my travel to Awesome Con.

Thanks, Darin!  I received the books in the mail today, and even though it was late in the day and I was kind of tired before I got the chance to get to my mailbox, as soon as I tore open the package I just had to SIT down and read your COMICS! I double-binged by re-reading the first issue and the second in one sitting.

What a fun book! I know you've got a bunch of new comics starting up, but I only wish there was a way to get a new SUPER 'SUCKERS book out more frequently than on a annual basis. When do you expect Binge Book #3 to come out? (Before next year, I hope!) It's a great package, and I love the whole concept of "TV that you read" and the sit-commercials. (Are those exclusive to the Binge Books, or are they included with the shorter digital chapters?)

I see Kelly finally found a perfect solution to her makeup problem, but I was surprised it was never an issue for Jess -- she doesn't wear makeup? In issue #2, she obviously had bigger problems to deal with, I guess. The new characters in issue #2 were terrific, too. I look forward to seeing more of them, and more of Kelly's sorority sisters Summer, Lyric, and Paisley, too. Paisley seems to be pretty smart, so I wonder if she might eventually figure out what's going on with Kelly. I was a little confused by that scene where Vera called Paisley "India", or are they twin sisters? Trevor's a great addition to the cast, and I hope we haven't seen the last of Richard, either.

Quote from: bobk on June 04, 2016, 01:52:17 PM
Okay. I just thought it was funny because it looks nothing like Lucey's work and isn't even proportional to the rest of his body. Nevermind then.



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?

Lucey, probably badly inked over by someone in the production department, or an attempt to copy his original over. Almost looks like it could have been done with a felt tip pen. Reproduced from a damaged transparency, no doubt.

Actually, I find Veronica's pose to be the funniest one in that panel, as she tries to balance Betty on her head.   

Quote from: Tokyo on June 04, 2016, 11:21:02 AM

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on June 04, 2016, 11:01:59 AM
You'll have to be a little more specific. All I see in that picture is Archie trying to do an impression of Ed Sullivan. It looks badly inked, but sometimes that happens with reprints. Old comic book artwork was shot by camera and and kept on file as transparancies, and sometimes the ink wore off the printed side of the transparency, resulting in it having to be touched up by the production department prior to reprinting.

Okay. I just thought it was funny because it looks nothing like Lucey's work and isn't even proportional to the rest of his body. Nevermind then.

It's supposed to look like a funny pose, and atypical of how Archie is usually drawn. The crossed arms, hunched shoulders, that's all Ed Sullivan's 'body language'. Here's a celebrity lookalike "doing" Ed Sullivan.

Quote from: spazaru on June 04, 2016, 11:06:55 AM

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on June 04, 2016, 09:25:39 AM

Quote from: invisifan on June 04, 2016, 08:20:39 AM
A consistent (and monthly) schedule would help... Particularly for titles people actually like.

Unless the problem is that ACP doesn't have the money to pay the creators (or the printers) on time if they turn in their work on a monthly basis, having more money on hand isn't going to fix that particular problem. It can't make creators who are slow turn in scripts or finished artwork work any faster, especially if they have other commitments keeping them busy outside of their work for ACP. At best it might help them work out a regular schedule, if not monthly, for a particular title, based on the speed the writers and artists can work at. Unless they're going to start having fill-in artists and writers, a concept that doesn't sit very well with me, and I suspect, a lot of others as well.

I'm fine with fill in artists and writers if the quality of the books are good.  That's all that matters to me.  But I'm sure it would be harder to keep a consistent tone if they're going to keep using stories with continuity.

There's the issue of trade paperback collections to consider as well. If you have more than one writer and artist working on a comic book series within a story arc that will later be collected into a TPB, it becomes a lot less attractive to many people. It's a lot less noticeable as a single stand-alone issue, when read that way, but TPB sales also account for a significant chunk of revenue that goes towards making a comic profitable or not.

Quote from: Tokyo on June 04, 2016, 10:57:20 AM

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on June 04, 2016, 09:55:05 AM
I'm not sure what you mean by "Why would they do this?" 

Look at Archie's head.

You'll have to be a little more specific. All I see in that picture is Archie trying to do an impression of Ed Sullivan. It looks badly inked, but sometimes that happens with reprints. Old comic book artwork was shot by camera and and kept on file as transparancies, and sometimes the ink wore off the printed side of the transparency, resulting in it having to be touched up by the production department prior to reprinting.

Quote from: BettyReggie on June 03, 2016, 06:32:47 PM
Patsy Walker AKA HellCat #1 & #6

I couldn't even make it all the way through Patsy Walker #6. That was the most terrible example of using a fill-in artist (completely different style) that I've ever seen in a comic. Essentially the equivalent of having the artist of the newspaper strip CATHY (Cathy Guisewite) fill in on the artwork in an issue of BATGIRL or something.

Quote from: Tokyo on June 04, 2016, 03:00:28 AM
Juggie and Sabrina? Oh, I can dig that! I never liked Harvey much and I like Ethel better with Moose. Those covers are really nice.

Ethel with Moose??  But then he'd have no excuse to beat guys up...? Or he'd just be beating Jughead up on a regular basis, if Ethel kept chasing him.

Quote from: Tokyo on June 04, 2016, 03:45:52 AM


I know they sometimes update older comics when they put them in newer digests (e.g. change dates, prices, pop culture figures), but this is ridiculous. Why would they do this?

I scanned this from B&V Double Digest #34.

I'm not sure what you mean by "Why would they do this?" 

B&V Double Digest #34 is from October 1992, and this story is obviously from an old issue, since Archie is doing an impression of Ed Sullivan (the clues are the crossed-arms pose and the "right here on our very own stage" quote) from his television variety show that ran all through the 1950s and 1960s (which is where The Beatles made their American TV debut), ending in 1971. Judging by what I know about Harry Lucey's art style, this looks like it would have been close to the end of the run of that long-running TV show. The same story was reprinted earlier in Archie Comics Digest #86 (Oct. 1987).

The letterer (or writer) mis-spelled the word "divine", which the proofreader or editor failed to catch, unless that's supposed to be an affectation of speech.

Quote from: invisifan on June 04, 2016, 08:20:39 AM
A consistent (and monthly) schedule would help... Particularly for titles people actually like.

Unless the problem is that ACP doesn't have the money to pay the creators (or the printers) on time if they turn in their work on a monthly basis, having more money on hand isn't going to fix that particular problem. It can't make creators who are slow turn in scripts or finished artwork work any faster, especially if they have other commitments keeping them busy outside of their work for ACP. At best it might help them work out a regular schedule, if not monthly, for a particular title, based on the speed the writers and artists can work at. Unless they're going to start having fill-in artists and writers, a concept that doesn't sit very well with me, and I suspect, a lot of others as well.