Quote from: Archiecomicxfan215 on February 15, 2017, 04:20:02 PM
Thank you BettyReggie 😊


Turning 24 years old today☺️

Have a terrific Birthday!  24 is a great age.  Relish every day of it.   

Quote from: Alexandra Cabot... (snip)...      Frankly, I don't see the point of Archie Comics without Montana/DeCarlo/etc. art style.

This in a nutshell.  No one wanted or needed New Coke, either. I understand sales were slugggish, but from my outsiders perspective the fault lies more with ACP management than the creative staff. 

Amazing collection of info, Mark.  I'll have to really think if anything of importance is missing.   I appreciate you updating this periodically. It's cool to read and reflect upon.

If memory serves, for a time we used to go to Kmart on Wednesdays to take advantage of their discount dinner they offered.   I was there many a night.   My parents shopped the heck out of the place afterwards, so I presume it all worked out, moneywise.

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Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on February 14, 2017, 01:29:40 PM

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Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on February 14, 2017, 10:37:59 AM
In the 30 months or so since I became interested in Archie Comics, I don't think I've seen any digests in any grocery story I've been in. I've seen them at Barnes & Noble, Walmart, and just recently, Target, but those are the only places. No local drugstore franchises or convenience stories.

I saw them at Wegman's (western NY) when I crossed the border last week;  Up here in Canada Shopper's drug mart has them, as does a grocery store called Sobey's.   Sometimes 7-11 and Walmart always has them.  I think that there will always be a call for Archie comics as they are the only all ages, family friendly comic that people (parents) have come to trust.

Funny you should mention that... Archie's formerly unassailable reputation as a purveyor of all-ages titles (eh... "Million Moms" aside)...  I wonder how things like the Archie Horror titles (which may well fly under most parents radar as imperceptible, with little chance most parents whose children are consumers of ACP's all-ages titles will ever become aware of them), and RIVERDALE might affect those parents' perception of ACP as a publisher.

The TV series is much more likely to impact public perception of ACP's comics, since television reaches a much wider audience than the direct-market floppy comics do, and if there isn't an immediate connection in parents minds between the name Riverdale and the names Archie, Jughead, Betty & Veronica, then plastering ads for the show all over the covers (and interiors) of the digests will certainly rectify that lack of recognition. Furthermore, placing those ads in the digests seems to imply that the TV show would be appropriate viewing for the same audiences reading those digests, so I wonder what some parents of say, an 8-12 year-old reader might think about that after viewing the show.

    It has occurred to me that perhaps Archie Comics is using the Riverdale TV show to destroy the comics (with help from the producers/writers of the program). I certainly hope I am wrong about that.  I've been a fan of Archie Comics since I was about 5 (I'm 34 now).  Parents shouldn't be allowing their 12 year old children to be watching Riverdale.  I know if I had seen it when I was 12, I probably would have stopped reading the comics at that point.

What's the benefit financially or creatively "destroying ACP"?  Wondering where your thoughts are on this point. 

They're popping up again in my grocery store, which is a plus.  I dont have a Walmart. How to get them into Walgreeens in the NA market is another question. Digests only, not the 32 pagers. Of course I'd be happy if the floppies showed up as well.

Quote from: Alexandra Cabot on February 12, 2017, 03:19:55 AM

Quote from: steveinthecity on February 12, 2017, 02:16:10 AMAlso, I've certainly never "mocked" you by the way.  I might have Granny style wit, but I'm thinking you're confusing me with someone else. 


Why would I mock or have an issue with you to begin with?  This whole exchange baffles me, for real.

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I don't even know how I got drug into this.  Please point me to the posts I made that caused this to happpen. Anyone.

Okay sure thing, Steve:

QuoteHas California not been wildly progressive in their politics the last few decades?  Holy Cow.  I hate everyone in Connecticut, by the way.  They just don't look like proper Americans to me.  They smirk sometimes in photos. Connecticut is full of communist sympathizers, by my account. They're probably all commies. Every last one of them. North Carolina is also on my list, as is Maryland.  I'm just getting warmed up. South Dakota better hope I don't look your way!

QuoteExactly what party is that?  Hopefully it's one with a proper stock of full to the brim red Solo cups. How is it you enjoy excoriating or bearing such malice towards large swaths of people? You must be from South Dakota.

Sarcastic ass comments directed at me, mocking what I said.  These were your first comments in this discussion chain.  So can you please stop with "duh I didn't say these things I said a few pages back, why was I referenced, it's a mystery duhhhh" debate style and leave it in the internet of 2002. 

This is entirely incorrect.  I have no issue with you, nor would I mock you. Like, ever, that I can imagine.

If it's my South Dakota comment, I apologize. It was meant as silliness.

The last two responses are for Alexandra Cabot.


I don't even know how I got drug into this.  Please point me to the posts I made that caused this to happpen. Anyone.

Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on February 10, 2017, 08:45:29 PM

Quote from: steveinthecity on February 09, 2017, 02:39:45 AM

As for the whole Milo thing, my understanding is he was going to speak in front of 100 or so students, but social media exploded with that news and everybody rushed in to throw fuel on the fire.  Nothing of any consequence would have happened if not for "SnapFace" or whatever the relevant, informed portion of the public is into as a social media source that motivated hundreds or even thousands of others to get involved in a measure of protest.

So then social media is to blame for the riots and violence and hatred?? Typical, that they blame everything but themselves. They blame Russia, they blame this and that and now apparently they blame social media    This is ridiculous.

No.  Of course everything comes down to the individual and points back to my concern regarding any gross generalizations.




Also, I've certainly never "mocked" you by the way.  I might have Granny style wit, but I'm thinking you're confusing me with someone else. 


Why would I mock or have an issue with you to begin with?  This whole exchange baffles me, for real.

Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on February 10, 2017, 08:45:29 PM

Quote from: steveinthecity on February 09, 2017, 02:39:45 AM

As for the whole Milo thing, my understanding is he was going to speak in front of 100 or so students, but social media exploded with that news and everybody rushed in to throw fuel on the fire.  Nothing of any consequence would have happened if not for "SnapFace" or whatever the relevant, informed portion of the public is into as a social media source that motivated hundreds or even thousands of others to get involved in a measure of protest.

So then social media is to blame for the riots and violence and hatred?? Typical, that they blame everything but themselves. They blame Russia, they blame this and that and now apparently they blame social media    This is ridiculous.

No, it's not social media per se, that's just an avenue that rabble rousers or potential pot stirrers use imo to find the next target.

Quote from: Alexandra Cabot on February 10, 2017, 12:15:04 AM
Oh boy, no more sarcasm.  Well, I guess I made my point well enough if you have to actually respond now.

I responded out of courtesy.  You brought my name into a conversation in a manner that didn't seem as merely rhetorical or as a "for instance" and included me as a reference point.

My apologies if what came across as sarcasm was viewed negatively.  Rest assured I pretty much say nothing that comes from an intent of being mean spirited.  Silliness, is more likely.  I'm not even sure what I've ever said on the boards that would draw me into this conversation.  I'm not even sure what the conversation is about to be honest.   I'm guilty of something nefarious apparently, and I should be brought to task.  

QuoteI completely understand how the state is perceived at least through my reading and viewing of national news.

QuoteThe national news is pretty much owned by the left at this point to the level where it's self-parody.  Remember this one that was plastered all over the media?



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QuoteWhere should I get my news?  I'm all over.  Random stations I pull up on Stitcher to BBC to whatever I come across.  I enjoy hearing a variety of perspectives. 

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QuoteI'm just wondering why the need for such a gross generalization of a populace?

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Because it's true, and pointing out the truth makes you uncomfrotable for some reason.  If you have an issue with me ripping on Commiefornia, you may as well be defending Sweden or something.  The state is that far off the reservation.[/size]

QuoteI'm not even sure what you're "ripping" exactly, just that "those people" are bad.   [/size]

QuoteCome on, Steve, tell me how that's a "protest" and not just political fueled criminality.

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It is absolutely politicall fueled criminality, I don't think I said it wasn't.  I was more thinking along the lines that if Milo spoke to the hundred or so attendees at his talk, this never would have made news or caused the disruption to businesses and the community nearby. I was more advocating free speech and disparaging the way some social media devotees turned the whole scenario into a circus.

I still stand by my statement that I very much enjoyed the Sears "Wish Book" as a kid.  Great fodder for daydreaming that was.


My apologies for the "quote fails". I'm just not up to this as I don't even know ultimately what we're supposed to be debating or discussing. 

Quote from: Alexandra Cabot on February 03, 2017, 11:26:41 PM

Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on February 03, 2017, 06:10:39 PM
We simply cannot trust in the media anymore. Bunch of liars.

Absolutely.

About California being a festering communist crap hole, recently at UC Berkely, liberal protestors tried to murder people at a speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, an extremely gay ethnic Jew, because SHOCKER he has conservative views and criticizes political correctness.  For that they labeled him a Nazi and attacked his speech by starting a riot, destroying their student union, burning down part of the campus, pepper spraying a woman wearing a Trump hat in the face and beating a supporter of Milo's in the head with a pipe so badly he almost died on the street.  Milo had to be rushed out the building because people broke into it with the intent to kill him.  The mayor of Berkeley told the police to stand down and cried about Milo being a bad guy during the riot on Twitter.  The police did nothing to stop the riot.

California is so incredibly biased that you can't be queer and disagree with liberals anymore or Californians will try to murder you.  This is what most people outside the state now see when they think of California:



So I ask you SAGG and SteveintheCity, why should I kiss your state's ass when treating people who disagree with the left like that is now common place?  Why do you have no awareness about how your state is perceived by outsiders?  That's not an isolated incident, there's plenty more examples over the course of the past year to choose from (btw, expecting silence here, especially from StevieintheCity).

I completely understand how the state is perceived at least through my reading and viewing of national news. That sort of thing obviosly doesn't get by me. And no need to "kiss any State's (derriere)", I'm just wondering why the need for such a gross generalization of a populace?  I'm not sure I understand how California, NY, TX. FL, PA, etc. would have harmed the country as a whole through policies that they as individual States have every right to enact?


As for the whole Milo thing, my understanding is he was going to speak in front of 100 or so students, but social media exploded with that news and everybody rushed in to throw fuel on the fire.  Nothing of any consequence would have happened if not for "SnapFace" or whatever the relevant, informed portion of the public is into as a social media source that motivated hundreds or even thousands of others to get involved in a measure of protest.


   

Hey VintageJon!     What/who are your favorite titles, artists, eras, etc.?  Welcome to the boards!.

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on February 05, 2017, 01:34:52 PM

Quote from: Archiecomicxfan215 on February 05, 2017, 09:17:44 AM
These are the rainbow bagels





The blue one they called a unicorn bagel which had oreo cream cheese, the red pink one they called a valentines bagel and had fruitty pebbles cream cheese

Seems overly complicated to me. Couldn't you just cover the bagel with cake frosting decorations and it would be just as healthy? Or say, some 50/50 blend of cake frosting & cream cheese with different food colorings. Then maybe use the Oreo crumbles or Fruity Pebbles just like sprinkles. Just pretend it's a cupcake, that works.

I worked in a bagel place, and we never concerned ourselves with toppings.  It was all about the bread, yo. Bread rocks.  Ask your best deli's.

Quote from: Archiecomicxfan215 on February 03, 2017, 09:54:28 AM
Leaving at 11am to pick up my check and check my work schedule for the week of the 13th. Then off to meet my boyfriend and we are going to Brooklyn to try this popular rainbow bagel with funfetti cream cheese and then back to Manhattan to check out some stores, like another location of my job and such

Serious question, but why don't managers of businesses that employ folks with "flexible" schedules email that info out to their staff?  It easy enough to hide folks email addy's for privacy's sake. 


Please let us know what's in a "Rainbow" bagel.  I cannot imagine what it is myself.