Kinda excited for this comic. It's by the artist from Scott Pilgrim. Hopefully it's another girlie comic that gives us a break from superheroes and dystopian societies.


http://www.howtolovecomics.com/2016/04/26/interview-image-plus/


There's a preview with a few frames in the latest Image+ and Previews magazine.


I enjoyed Luna the Vampire and Jonesy but looking at the upcoming Previews not a lot of new girlie comics series are coming. Those must have not sold well.

Quote from: kassandralove on April 29, 2016, 03:09:24 AM
I really think forums are old news. I can only stay active by using the tapatalk app because it's just cleaner and easier to read while I find going on from a computer to be to messy looking.

Also the active members here are really hardcore fans and most might come check it out but don't indulge enough- or merely just forget to come back.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What fan communities do you think are still booming? I'm on Twitter a bit more now and talk to some of the comic book artists and writers. Are there any other places people discuss comics?


You can use Tapatalk but you miss out on the Shoutbox which is sometimes my favorite part of this forum.

Quote from: daren on April 29, 2016, 02:52:48 AM
Why not discuss other comics here in general comics? 

I tried starting Jem and the Holograms and Lumberjanes threads on the old forum and not too much interest there.

They comment on every thread of which there aren't very many and get bored and leave. This forum doesn't have a huge amount of action or differing opinions.


I noticed we can't keep kids here who all seemed to get bored and leave without warning. I'm starting to think they're all the same kid.


I'm looking for a new forum myself that discusses other comics besides Archie.

Still at work. 7:30 am til 11 pm today.

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 28, 2016, 03:16:55 AM

Quote from: irishmoxie on April 27, 2016, 01:48:26 PM
I keep meaning to read Life With Archie for the first time but keep getting bogged down with how depressing it is and never finish the first volume.

For me, I think it helped that The Married Life was my (re-)introduction to Archie. The long and drawn out storyline, with its convoluted soap-opera subplots and dire circumstances, is very common in the ongoing Marvel and DC titles (where there's always some new lurking menace or personal problem looming in the background). LIFE WITH ARCHIE seemed designed purposefully to attract readers who were long used to that kind of storytelling in comics.

On the plus side, you knew that these depressing circumstances were merely what you get when you emerge from the relative safety and carefree years of high school into adult life, and, being sequestered off in 'possible future' timelines, there was no chance of any of that seeping into the traditional classic Archie stories which were strictly episodic sitcoms. Here they were able to explore some situations and cater to fanboy/fangirl fantasies that couldn't be dealt with in the traditional style stories, where real change can never be allowed to accumulate.

It seems that ACP's takeaway from the publishing experience of LWA was to reboot Archie in his high school days, and add the longer continuing storyline with subplot elements of teenage angst and soap-opera dramatics (whether that be the breakup of a longtime relationship, or an evil Principal taking over the school), so if it doesn't bother you there, I don't see why it would bother you to see them as adults with problems in a 'possible future' setting. If you had said you didn't care for it because there were too many science-fictional elements in the story, that I could probably understand.

Now, the problem I have with the New Riverdale titles isn't their mere existence, for an audience that wants to purchase an "Archie variant", in the same way that LIFE WITH ARCHIE or AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE are "variant Archies". For me, it's "eh... been there, done that". That's all well and good, if what they were doing was merely expanding the audience by adding new options for types of Archie products, variants that would appeal to different audience demographic segments. The problem I have with it is that every indication is that the intention of ACP is to seed and fertilize the NEW garden of New Riverdale titles, while they let the OLD garden of Classic Archie wither and die out. All the resources are being diverted over there, and away from Classic Archie. It's not an Archie alternative, it's an Archie replacement.

ACP will probably go bankrupt if the TV show fails. They don't have unlimited money to devote to keeping multiple Archie universes going at the same time.

I can handle teen drama because it's pretty petty and doesn't really affect the world. LWA was too realistic for me. I have to be in a certain kind of mood to read it when there isn't a lot of stress going on in my own life. Same reason I don't read Saga a lot even though whether that comic is realistic is debatable. I read comics for escapism.

I'm curious to what other comics you consider to be similar to the new Riverdale. I might be interested in reading them.

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 22, 2016, 01:08:44 AM

Quote from: BlueBomber2015 on April 18, 2016, 05:33:47 AM
No wonder these days, the girls are toned down.

No, I meant it's all in the context of the delivery. In a CARTOON, it's funny when someone gets bonked on the head with a hammer (or a film with cartoonish sensibilities, like The Three Stooges). If everything else in the story is being treated in a more realistic fashion, as is common in modern comic books, then it's no longer funny, and you're forced to view things more like if they were occurring in the real world, where hitting someone on the head with a hammer gets them sent to the emergency room (if it doesn't kill them outright). That shift in tone is why I largely don't think a rebooted Archie works. If the characters are being drawn more realistically, and the dialogue, situations and relationships are all being treated more seriously, then sticking in a scene where Archie gets flattened like a pancake by a steamroller no longer works. Come to think of it, that's trying to overcompensate, since even classic style Archie rarely went in for that level of cartoon body morphing.

I still like the frame when Archie is working at an ice cream store and the ice cream catches on fire. That's in the new Riverdale.

I keep meaning to read Life With Archie for the first time but keep getting bogged down with how depressing it is and never finish the first volume.

Quote from: Sitcomics on April 27, 2016, 12:42:13 PM
Now available at comiXology!

Going to try to read this and the new Die Kitty Die tonight.

Quote from: GingerGal on April 26, 2016, 03:57:53 PM
Mine are a candy that I loved back in South Africa that they don't seem to have here in America called Fizzers. They have 3 flavours(Strawberry, Bluebuzz(Mixed Fruit), and Cream Soda) and they also fizz in your mouth. They are also chewy.

Try Pop Rocks?

Quote from: GingerGal on April 26, 2016, 08:32:59 PM
I also really love these. These can actually be found in South Africa, but not like here in America.

I love Haribo gummies! They are better than the rest. You can find them here in the States but usually only in specialty shops. Of course there's always amazon. I really like the soda flavored gummies by Haribo. It tastes a bit like Lemon Bitters.

Quote from: GingerGal on April 26, 2016, 05:35:59 PM
If they are selling the new series at the same price at both digitally and printed what is the incentive to get the digital one?

Digital comics come out sooner. BN.com used to release comics at midnight on release day, Amazon around 2 am, and Comixology even later. I used to wake up early and read the new Archie before work when it first started. Now it's not nearly as exciting.


The earliest I could go to a comic store is release day after work and most comic stores near me only open from 12pm-5/6pm and I'm almost never out of work by then. Also most of the comics I read are not the kinds stores keep shelf copies of (i.e. lots of all ages/kids comics and girlie comics) and to preorder them it has to be like 5-6 weeks in advance if you want it on release day and then would order the wrong variant for me. It's just easier to do it all online.

Quote from: BettyReggie on April 25, 2016, 04:22:30 PM
Well she did have 37 Comics plus special issues that 48 pages. When Kevin only had 15 issues. He is getting his digital vomic which is cool. I just wish it was a real comic so I can put them in my comic frames. He looks handsome all grown up.

15 comics today is practically equal to 30 comics back in the 90s. There is less disposable income and less room for error.

female driven comics
manga
90s pop culture
90s pop music
dogs especially Australian Shepherds
reading celebrity biographies
fandom and collector culture
Cantonese food
sushi
watching YouTubers

French class. Learning vocab always came easy to me. I wish I had time to learn more languages.