Quote from: irishmoxie on May 18, 2016, 12:12:48 PM

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Quote from: invisifan on May 17, 2016, 06:20:30 PM
Starting a 10-pager: http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/mc_soft_reboot_-_two_melissas_-_pg_1_of_10

If you haven;t read the story to this point you have to take the split at face value ...

I'll probably just wait until all ten pages are up. Just makes more sense... I like to read a complete story or a complete chapter. Most webcomics aren't really written in "newspaper strip" mode. I'm even kind of starting to feel that way about continued stories in monthly comics versus trade collections. It just seems so much more consistent and comprehensible that way (and the problem is compounded the more ongoing comics series you read).

Isn't Gisele calling the new EC/MC (since returning from hiatus) a "soft reboot" now? What split?

But if you only read trade paperbacks there will be low sales of single issues and series will end early and the comic industry could potentially fail.

It's probably an inevitable shift. Single issues are shifting to digital (you're living proof of that). Vertigo trade paperback sales have been outselling single issues for years. One issue with multiple stories is practically gone (Archie Comics is evidence of that). Single issues with a single complete story have been on the wane for decades. Consumers obviously overwhelmingly prefer the long-story form, so it shouldn't be surprising the sales of graphic novels and collected editions have grown stronger while floppy comic sales have grown proportionally weaker. Webcomic/digital first to collected edition is the comic industry model of the future.

Yep. And the only reason to buy single issues anymore is for the variant cover.

Makes me wonder why they don't just ditch the single issues all together and just put out trades like manga has done. They would release product less often but I guess they are making more money because trades sell more copies (even though if you bought every single issue it would cost you more than the trade.)

And the only reason variant covers exist is to service collectors, not readers. And of course, comic book shops... because that's where collectors go. Not all collectors care about variant covers, but the publishers are trying to generate money by catering to the desire to own physical art objects, as opposed to just enjoying the art itself. Of course you could just enjoy looking at JPG images of the cover art, or the publishers could just put out an art book or something. But I guess you can't blame them if people want to pay another $4, $10, or even more, for another copy of the same comic book story with a different cover over it. In a lot of ways the old model is battling against the new model, because comic shops were built on floppy comic sales to comic book collectors, and most people accustomed to that way of relating to their hobby don't want it to change.


The manga industry doesn't just put out trades. In the U.S., publishers print translated reprints of collected editions of manga stories that originally appeared in thick comic anthologies that are printed cheaply and appear weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly and give the Japanese readers a chance to follow and preview a lot of different series at once, before the inevitable collection appears.

QuoteJughead #9
(It's kind of like a) BRAND NEW #1... except it's issue #9! SABRINA makes her debut in the NEW RIVERDALE and things are about to get INSANE! New story!  New arc!  New creative team! Pop Tate's has a new mascot: it's a lady in a burger costume with a giant burger for a head!  And she never takes off that giant burger head!  And she and Jughead really hit it off, probably for that very reason! But is it possible Burger Lady is MORE than she appears? Find out what happens when Jughead meets a burger he REALLY likes—and a POWERFUL and unexpected new force in Riverdale is revealed!! P.S.: that powerful and unexpected new force is SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH!  SHE'S the Burger Lady!

After reading the solicitation, it almost seems like reading the story when it actually comes out is a mere formality. Such suspense. Right around the sentence where they said "she never takes off that giant burger head", I started thinking "I bet it turns out to be Sabrina"... and I was right. At least I didn't have to wait 2 months for that satisfaction. OR maybe it would be more satisfying if they didn't just tell you the plot ahead of time.

Josie and the Vampire Bats?

Quote from: spazaru on May 18, 2016, 07:15:51 AM
Whatever you think of the reboots (I'm personally fine with them), I think we're getting some great art from them.

I miss the classic Archie artists. But at least Derek Charm's an improvement and a move in the right direction. Don't care for Veronica Fish's work at all.

Four digests solicited, with only one of them (Jughead and Archie #22) indicating the lead story is new. Not good. 

Quote from: irishmoxie on May 18, 2016, 09:55:20 AM

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Quote from: BettyReggie on May 18, 2016, 09:17:27 AM
I just read Jughead #6 my digital copy. It was just ok, I would give it a B. The other 5 issues were better. I can't we haven't seen Ethel in any of the issues. It seems like they really don't talk about Jughead not liking girls. He was friendly with Betty. And he really can't stand Veronica.

Maybe the new writer and artist will bring Ethel in

I was re-reading Archie and I saw Ethel in a background in a scene. I believe it's the one where Veronica vomits up the sloppy joe.

I was just saying to myself the other day, "You know, there just isn't enough vomiting in comics." Good to see that ACP's addressing that.

Quote from: irishmoxie on May 18, 2016, 09:53:20 AM

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 17, 2016, 08:08:48 PM

Quote from: invisifan on May 17, 2016, 06:20:30 PM
Starting a 10-pager: http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/mc_soft_reboot_-_two_melissas_-_pg_1_of_10

If you haven;t read the story to this point you have to take the split at face value ...

I'll probably just wait until all ten pages are up. Just makes more sense... I like to read a complete story or a complete chapter. Most webcomics aren't really written in "newspaper strip" mode. I'm even kind of starting to feel that way about continued stories in monthly comics versus trade collections. It just seems so much more consistent and comprehensible that way (and the problem is compounded the more ongoing comics series you read).

Isn't Gisele calling the new EC/MC (since returning from hiatus) a "soft reboot" now? What split?

But if you only read trade paperbacks there will be low sales of single issues and series will end early and the comic industry could potentially fail.

It's probably an inevitable shift. Single issues are shifting to digital (you're living proof of that). Vertigo trade paperback sales have been outselling single issues for years. One issue with multiple stories is practically gone (Archie Comics is evidence of that). Single issues with a single complete story have been on the wane for decades. Consumers obviously overwhelmingly prefer the long-story form, so it shouldn't be surprising the sales of graphic novels and collected editions have grown stronger while floppy comic sales have grown proportionally weaker. Webcomic/digital first to collected edition is the comic industry model of the future.

Quote from: irishmoxie on May 16, 2016, 01:34:55 AM
I also am not a big fan of Reggie the villain and I don't like how they keep withholding info like what Reggie did that was so bad that he didn't want anyone else to know about.

Hit and run accident where he killed Hot Dog with his car and fled the scene before anyone saw him? At least, that's the answer in Afterlife With Archie.

SQUADRON SUPREME #7
ASTONISHING ANT-MAN #8
TITANS HUNT #8 (of 8 )
SILVER SURFER #4
JUGHEAD #6
CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA #5
HENCHGIRL #1&2 BUMPER EDITION
MICRONAUTS #2
ASTRO CITY #35
INVINCIBLE #128
FUTURE QUEST #1
THE BADGER #4 (of 5)
STEVE DITKO ARCHIVES VOL. 6: THE OUTER LIMITS (Introduction only - 6 pages)
WALLY WOOD: GALAXY ART AND BEYOND HC (Introduction only -21 pages)
ARCHIE BY BOB MONTANA: THE COMPLETE NEWSPAPER COMICS 1963-1965 (Introduction only - 3 pages)
GRAVEDIGGER: HOT WOMEN COLD CASH TP

Quote from: invisifan on May 17, 2016, 09:13:25 PM

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 17, 2016, 08:08:48 PM

Quote from: invisifan on May 17, 2016, 06:20:30 PM

If you haven;t read the story to this point you have to take the split at face value ...

Isn't Gisele calling the new EC/MC (since returning from hiatus) a "soft reboot" now? What split?

If you're up to date with the series the "soft reboot" means it's a good point to come in, with most previous plot threads resolved - I was referring to Melissa's condition at the end of it.

Ah, okay. I didn't look at it yet, but now I noticed the "two Melissas" in in the URL.

I admit to confusion over the term "soft reboot". I KNOW what a reboot is. "Soft reboot" seems to mean different things, depending on who's using it. What Gisele calls a soft reboot, I call a "jump-on point". Sort of like a little clean-up around the house to get rid of the clutter and make things look neat and orderly if you know guests will be arriving, particularly those who aren't regular visitors. Just trying to make things accessible and inviting to the uninitiated. Not really a reboot, since nothing is really changing.


To me "soft reboot" equates more to "bold new direction", a shakeup in status quo.

Quote from: invisifan on May 17, 2016, 06:20:30 PM
Starting a 10-pager: http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/mc_soft_reboot_-_two_melissas_-_pg_1_of_10

If you haven;t read the story to this point you have to take the split at face value ...

I'll probably just wait until all ten pages are up. Just makes more sense... I like to read a complete story or a complete chapter. Most webcomics aren't really written in "newspaper strip" mode. I'm even kind of starting to feel that way about continued stories in monthly comics versus trade collections. It just seems so much more consistent and comprehensible that way (and the problem is compounded the more ongoing comics series you read).

Isn't Gisele calling the new EC/MC (since returning from hiatus) a "soft reboot" now? What split?

Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on May 16, 2016, 10:32:36 PM

Quote from: BettyReggie on May 16, 2016, 10:10:46 PM
I remember a story where Betty was Rolling Blading & she was almost hit by this huge truck. Reggie ran into the street. He saved her. His sweater was ripped. And few days later Betty made him a sweater to replace his rip one. He asked her to go the movies. So they as actually started to date but they were not sure if was true love. Archie & Veronica were jealous & actually missed them. In the end Reggie did what nice person would do & it proved he actually had a heart.

"For One Brief Moment". That's my favorite Betty/Reggie story.

Even though I'd read the story before in reprint form, I was surprised to find that issue (BETTY #43) with the original appearance of that story, while rummaging through a box of unsorted comics for 50c. I never find an issue of an Archie comic that way that contains some 'significant' or notable story like that. That story IS pretty much the Holy Grail for Betty/Reggie shippers. Doubtful that there'll ever be another.

Quote from: invisifan on May 16, 2016, 07:23:33 PM
The answer should be obvious to many (if not most) girls of her generation with very little effort (in fact the basics were used by Fred Saberhagen in his Dracula series of novels in the 1970s to allow him to shave conveniently) and that is the tablet (or even smartphone) with a front facing camera — almost universal these days on tablets (for skype & such as well as facial recognition) and common for phones too.  Where Dracula had a large video camera mounted over a monitor and had to train himself to switch (back) right-to-left, the modern device is hand held and can generate a mirror image for display automatically ...

Does she need to get a computer genius to write that software for her? Well, if you enter "hand mirror" in the search at Google playstore you'll get about 30 apps that do exactly that, plus options to zoom, brighten, illuminate, freeze, snapshot, flip, try effects and more ...

Jury's still out on whether or not vampires can be photographed. It varies depending on who's writing them. The minute you start mixing science and technology with the supernatural, then you're forced dredge up questions about "The Way Things Work", and ask questions about why IS it exactly, that vampires cast no reflections?

But what if you misplaced your tablet/phone or forgot to charge it? Left in the car or the bathroom before going somewhere else, and then you have to fix your makeup? Not so much more reliable than depending on your BVFF (best vampire friend forever) to check it for you. Kelly and Jess might as well learn to depend on each other. Fixing each other's makeup is just going to be a minor example of a lot of different ways that they're going to need to rely on each other's help not to blow their cover, and to protect each other from threats small and large.

Quote from: daren on May 16, 2016, 04:15:11 PM
Well the Archie stories are in cartoon-world mode whenever any main character tries to kill someone so I can see why they let it pass even if it's not by the rules, they meant those more for horror and superhero comics. Boomerangs are pretty deadly, guess that was the last of Archie! 

They are in cartoon-world mode about 95% of the time, Daren. Except if it's Al Hartley's Spire Christian Comics, or some other obviously didactic story about prejudice or world peace or a Christmas miracle or something, or parts (only parts, there's still some cartoon stuff in there) of LIFE WITH ARCHIE or ARCHIE AT RIVERDALE HIGH (which really seems more like it's Chuck Clayton's comic anyway). Usually it's easy to tell if there's no gag at the end of the story.

Quote from: spazaru on May 16, 2016, 06:21:55 PM
I want one starring Pepper where she comes back to haunt Archie Comics for dropping her from the storyline without even a send off.  It could be like Archie vs Predator where she just kills one person after another, preferably by playing really out of tune guitar, thereby showing why she wasn't in the Pussycats. 

Something like that.

You make me long for simpler times when PTF would just suggest something like giving Segarini his own series.
I mean, come ON!  Obviously playing the guitar badly is Albert's job. Pepper needs her hands free to hold the knives.