FBCD 2016 VIZ MEDIA ONE-PUNCH MAN/MY HERO ACADEMIA - Previewing two superhero series from the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump. The first stars a "superhero for fun" who looks very unimpressive - not much of a physique, bald-headed, only the simplest of facial features. His biggest problem is trying to avoid boredom, because his devastating power to defeat any foe with a single punch has him constantly seeking new challenges. The second is about a world where about 80% of the population has a "quirk" (specialized superpower), and our protagonist is a teenager trying to be accepted at UA Hero Academy, a superhero high school. He has near-unlimited power he can draw from crystals, but it's too powerful for him to handle at 100%, and he hasn't learned to modulate that power to smaller percentages yet. In this story he's got to pass a series of physical tests and he's in danger of being cut from the school before even starting. Both sort of interesting, but I liked One-Punch Man a lot better, because it's more like a tongue-in-cheek comedy, plus I preferred the art style to My Hero Academia, which seems to tread some of the same ground as a lot of X-Men spinoff titles featuring young mutants. I think I might order Volume 1 of the One-Punch Man series (it was recommended to me by someone else, as well).

I went to Target this morning looking for two things: some shaving gel and a black zippered hoodie. Couldn't find the hoodie, but I did wind up buying the following:

   
• 2 pair of pants
• 1 pair cargo shorts
• 3 white t-shirts
• Hot Wheels 5-pack (Target exclusive): Batman villains vehicles
• Hot Wheels Aquaman and Hawkman cars (individually carded)
• MIRACULOUS: TALES OF LADYBUG & CAT NOIR (DVD) - Apparently a CGI-animated series (don't know where this appeared on TV) about kid superheroes living in Paris. I was interested in the look of this when I saw a solicitation for an upcoming Action Lab comic series (or graphic novel, not sure) based on it. Reminds me a little bit of THE INCREDIBLES as far as the look of the characters, but that's not quite it either. This is Vol. 1 of the series and contains 7 episodes (154 min.) It was $10, so I took a chance. Haven't watched it yet.
• ARCHER: SEASON SIX (DVD 2-disc set) - This show is hilarious. I don't watch it anymore on FX, I just wait for the DVD set, because I love immersing myself in episode after episode. It was $20, and I probably could have found it cheaper online, but I didn't feel like waiting.
• 5 cans of shaving gel

Total spent - $137

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Loved the conclusion to this, and the teaser for the new series from Chapterhouse Comics. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the biggest Canadian comics publisher would be the one to most appreciate a new series from two classic Archie creators. The Archie/Canada connection continues!

While the new series from Chapterhouse Comics won't ship until October 26, I already went ahead and pre-ordered the Chapterhouse Summer Special 2016 (due out in July), which will have a preview of the new series.

Congratulations to Dan and Fernando on a great digital miniseries, and the launch of a new print series later this year!

Is that Special actually going to have new material from DKD or just reprints?

All I know is what you know -- what it said on the page announcing the upcoming DKD series from Chapterhouse Comics. Maybe Fernando can give us a definitive answer to that.

Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on June 01, 2016, 11:37:42 PM

Saw this one on FB. Jughead and Fat Albert in Springfield.

Note the green t-shirt and black vest on Jughead. That's the Filmation animated series Jughead. Not surprising since Fat Albert appears in the same scene.

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This story is too funny! 

My favorite all-time "Jug puts Ronica in her place" story...

I love those silent stories. Still, this pantomime has a very 19th Century feel to it. You'd think these guys had never seen a bare shoulder on a woman before! 

Quote from: Thrillho on June 01, 2016, 07:27:37 PM
Meanwhile, there is no evidence to indicate that she called anyone else. Occam's Razor, the hypothesis with the least assumptions should be selected.

The evidence would be Veronica's sour mood. If she only invited Jughead and he showed up, she should be satisfied with that. The fact that she's unhappy about the situation seems to indicate she hoped someone else would show up to eat the big breakfast she made. Or if she didn't invite anyone else, she seems to feel like this solution to getting rid of her big breakfast isn't much of an improvement on shoving it all down the garbage disposal.

Great! Just ordered the print copy of Binge Book #2 (and a second copy of #1) on sitcomics.net!

Loved the conclusion to this, and the teaser for the new series from Chapterhouse Comics. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the biggest Canadian comics publisher would be the one to most appreciate a new series from two classic Archie creators. The Archie/Canada connection continues!

While the new series from Chapterhouse Comics won't ship until October 26, I already went ahead and pre-ordered the Chapterhouse Summer Special 2016 (due out in July), which will have a preview of the new series.

Congratulations to Dan and Fernando on a great digital miniseries, and the launch of a new print series later this year!

Quote from: invisifan on June 01, 2016, 08:23:59 AM
Most likely the colourist (or whoever made the decision) barely read any Archie stories, skimmed this one and thought ''Leroy is a stereotypical black name" and away you go ...

No, I don't think the colorists are even looking at the names. Even if he/she failed to recognize Leroy as Veronica's cousin, it's part of the plot of the story that Veronica is willing to pay $20 for a cup of lemonade from Jughead, because she's been alerted to his exorbitant prices by her cousin. Of course she's sure he's up to something and just wants to ruin it for him. The reader isn't expected to recognize Leroy by sight either (he's wearing a skateboarding helmet), so he's introduced in the panel before he shows up by Jughead thinking "Oh great, here comes Veronica's bratty cousin", then Jughead addresses him by name in the next panel.


I don't think the colorist is reading these stories AT ALL, never mind skimming them.


I mean, what's next? Some colorist is going to fail to visually identify Fred Andrews in some scene where he's not in the usual context of the Andrews home or with Mary or Archie, perhaps dressed a little differently than usual, and wearing a hat and sunglasses, for instance... and decide to make him the "person of color" in that particular story?

Quote from: daren on May 21, 2016, 07:24:36 PM
But I'm saying he's NOT trying to fool her, she must know what he's like if she's not neglectful so she's just STRANGE at that play approving of his narcissist show, there's no in joke or satire....

Oh, isn't there? It's rather uncanny when you compare how similar Jughead's dream is in "Dream Boy" to Reggie's play in "Writer's Cramp". They both seem to be satirizing something. But then the whole idea of two beautiful girls both being so attracted to Jughead or Reggie that they're willing to fight over him to possess him is rather ridiculous to begin with. It reminds me of something I once saw in a comic book. 

Quote from: daren on May 31, 2016, 02:41:05 AM

The reveal of Archie hiding in the baby carriage by Pop done in quietly absurd Bob Bolling way

Random funny stuff wherever it can be stuck in

Oddly enough, I just finished reading a Jughead story by George Gladir and Rex Lindsey (in Jughead and Archie Jumbo Comics #21), and it has a random baby carriage gag in the first panel, where there's a baby pushing a baby stroller with the mother sitting in the stroller sucking her thumb! I guess Rex Lindsey could have put that in there himself, as it's just a sight gag and has no relation to the story, but I just thought it was weird and "quietly absurd", and we do know that sometimes (if not most of the time) Gladir just roughed out his stories in pencil as a guide for the artist.


On the other hand, I'll grant your points and say I'd be just as inclined to accept Bolling as the perpetrator of both stories.

Quote from: Thrillho on May 31, 2016, 12:41:06 PM


but she did call Jughead over instead of anyone else and she cooked it all herself!

You honestly can't say who else she called, because it doesn't show that part. Maybe Veronica just invited Hot Dog over to dispose of the uneaten food, and Jughead invited himself along. Jughead and Hot Dog were the only ones brave and/or hungry enough to show up, anyway. Even Archie won't eat Veronica's cooking if there's any way for him to get out of it... but Jughead isn't known as the human garbage disposal of Riverdale for nothing. Nobody makes a big deal about it when he goes to Ethel's house to eat her cooking, but unlike Ethel, Veronica really doesn't seem too happy to have him there. "Just shut up and eat!"

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I don't know why this ship isn't considered canon. 

Well, there's no "ship" going on here -- and in order to be considered legal, marriages (except for the ones required by ancient Inca rituals for human sacrifice) have to be entered into by the two people of their own free will.


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.

I know we had a thread on the old site where we were discussing the practice of reprinted stories altering characters' race. I weighed in with the opinion that it didn't bother me in principle (as long as the reprint isn't an archival type collection, like a trade paperback... regular digests, it doesn't bother me) -- BUT what I DO find offensive is that it's so often done so poorly, in terms of choosing the character -- thus making the race change stick out like a sore thumb. It's like flashing a neon sign advertising with a big arrow "FAKE BLACK PERSON".

The most recent Archie digest, JUGHEAD AND ARCHIE JUMBO COMICS #21, contains the most ridiculous example of this race-changing practice that I've ever seen, proving that the colorists are so bored that they can't even be bothered to read the story which they're coloring, and are choosing which characters to race-swap on an entirely random basis, as long as they're not reoccurring characters. Well, this time the colorist goofed big time.

In the reprint of the classic Craig Boldman/Rex Lindsey Jughead story "LEMON Harangue" in this issue, LEROY LODGE has all of a sudden become black. Now granted, Leroy only appears in three or four panels in this story, and is only referred to by name in one of them -- although in the panel prior to that one, Jughead thinks "Oh great, here comes Veronica's bratty cousin!" But here's the thing... this story has SEVERAL incidental characters who appear in as many panels as Leroy, any one of whom would have made a suitable candidate for race-changing.

Leroy, on the other hand -- apart from being a fairly well-known (except to the colorist, apparently) character, has spiky hair, and freckles, and is accompanied in the story by an unnamed friend in all of the panels in which he appears -- why not the friend?!  Or the reporter who, walking by, observes Jughead attempting to charge Veronica $20 for a glass of lemonade, and thinks it would make an interesting human interest piece for the paper. Or the kid named Billy who asked Jughead to watch his lemonade stand for him while he took a break for lunch, or the entrepreneur who offers to buy Jughead's formula for lemonade thinking it must be the greatest lemonade ever created, if Jughead can get away with charging $20 a glass for it (Veronica bought 2 glasses), or the little girl who Jughead convinces that the lemonade must be terrible if Billy made it with his "grubby little hands" -- the whole point being that Jughead has only agreed to watch the stand because Billy agreed to let him have all the lemonade he wants for free, and Jughead wants to keep it all for himself, which is why he tries to charge Leroy $5 a glass for it, but Leroy passes, and then complains about Jughead's prices to Veronica.

The point is, there were at least four other incidental characters in this story that the colorist could have chosen to race-swap, but didn't.

Instead, he chose to race-swap Leroy Lodge, who is not only a reoccurring character, but Veronica's cousin who has appeared many times, and has always been Caucasian. UNBELIEVABLE. 

JUGHEAD AND ARCHIE JUMBO COMICS #21 came in the mail today, and I read that tonight. One thing I've been doing is counting the pages of the new lead stories in the months since Fernando Ruiz announced that ACP would be limiting the new stories to 5 pages going forward (I began counting only after Fernando's final story had appeared), and I found that not to be the case, with more than a few 6 page stories, as is the case with the new lead story in this issue.


One thing I'm noticing is that apart from the final B&V stories of "The Many Loves of Archie Andrews", all of the new Dan Parent stories since then have been written by writers other than Dan himself. And with the last couple of months of solicitations having digests where the lead stories are NOT described as "NEW", that's planted a suspicion in my mind that the new lead stories may only hold out as long as the scripts which ACP had bought and paid for far ahead of time. They may already have ceased paying for new scripts from writers entirely, and are merely having Dan Parent work through a backlog of paid-for scrips that had been accumulating for some time. After those scripts run out, it may be all over for new classic Archie stories in the digests.