Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is also in shops tomorrow ...

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 ...

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 16, 2016, 03:43:53 AM
Perhaps if you just explained how mushrooms connect with makeup (and the fact that being a vampire, Kelly can't see her reflection to apply the makeup), it would be clearer. Even when you supply the supposed answer to being cryptic, you're still being cryptic. I can never tell how many levels there are involved.

Ah, but that wasn't this answer, that was that last one (cryptozoology) ... the largest animal (as you stated) is the blue whale, and for the record the largest plant is the giant redwood, but we've know for ½ a century that there are (at least) 3 taxonomic kingdoms in evolutionary biology — the third being the mycota which incidentally much more closely resemble animals at the genetic level ... there is vast divergence, just as with flora and fauna, and the branch that includes the mushrooms lives primarily underground, just extending small capped stalks above ground for reproductive distribution; the body of the organism is buried and extends many stalks — what appears to be a cluster of mushrooms is in fact general;y multiple "branches" of the same creature.  I's very difficult to track, but there are know to be several (one in Oregon, another in Michigan at the very least) are genetically homogeneous and interjoined (ie. a single organism) that underlie quite a number of square miles to an unknown depth ...

QuoteSeems to me the solution to Kelly's (and Jess') vampire makeup problem is staring them in the face. Or rather, the solution is for them to stare at each others' face, and each do the other's makeup. Problem solved.

Provided they trust each other (and their make-up judgement) and expect to always be together whenever either one needs ... an update ...     

Binged through Lazarus ... I wouldn't have thought so initial (still not at all sure, but ...) irishmoxie , you might like this — strong female lead(s), dystopian & some definite mysteries involved ...

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 16, 2016, 02:31:18 AM

Quote from: invisifan on May 16, 2016, 02:29:38 AM
It occurred to me that Kelly has an obvious (for her generation) solution to her make-up problem, but it will also be complicated by being a vampire in an unexpected way ...

You just enjoy being cryptic, don't you? 

It's fun at times but there's always an answer ... Oh, and mushrooms btw

It occurred to me that Kelly has an obvious (for her generation) solution to her make-up problem, but it will also be complicated by being a vampire in an unexpected way ...

Quote from: irishmoxie on May 15, 2016, 04:35:22 PM
I think you could probably read Archie #1 and #8 (and maybe the one where they explain the lipstick incident) and you'd be all caught up with it plot wise.

And accidentally demolishing the mansion, and Mr. Lodge finding out who did it?

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 15, 2016, 05:34:51 PM
I know Mark Waid had previous experience doing a few Archie stories way back when ("Moose!" and one or two others I've seen reprinted), but it's curious to me why ACP didn't just hire someone 'big name' that had a previous track record of putting a lot of humor/comedy into their scripts (at least, on some of their work... I've read a LOT of Waid's stuff, and never really picked up on much comedy in any of the series I've read by him). I'm thinking of somebody like Dan Slott over at Marvel (and of course, they're not going to get Dan Slott, but someone like him, and there are more than a few people like that working in mainstream comics). So I have to believe that wasn't any sort of primary consideration on ACP's part. Maybe if someone like Rex Lindsey was drawing Waid's scripts they'd at least come across as funnier.

Waid was already doing the Fox for their Dark Circle line, so I guess it was an easy association — and as Dark Circle goes that's pretty light stuff ...

QuoteI'm not too interested in a rom-com or whatever the current subgenre thing is now. I really only have the vaguest idea of what that really is. It's not a genre I've ever really followed.

Romantic comedy — more of a movie genre really, not one that's normally sustained over a long term ...

Quote"Sitcom" punctuated with a good dose of slapstick now and then is really what I want from an Archie comic. But that can be like in a TV series like Community, Parks and Recreation, 30 Rock, something like that. That and cute girls, but not just "good girl art" of the Adam Hughes type. I mean sexy/cartoony/cute/innocent type girls, like... maybe something like the Bruce Timm/Darwyn Cooke style.

Is the Darwyn Cooke reference coincidental?  You know he died  literally yesterday ...

Quote from: spazaru on May 15, 2016, 01:29:18 PM
It's kind of giving me a My So Called Life vibe, if you've ever seen that show.

I don't watch a lot of TV — and particularly avoid sitcoms ... though the name rings a bell ...

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 15, 2016, 12:49:27 PM

Quote from: terrence12 on May 15, 2016, 12:32:40 PM
Well yeah the archie reboot comic is comedy but has a tints of drama in it .

Seriously, terrence, you are the first person I've read to even mention the humor, never mind to characterize it as a comedy overall. I certainly didn't find that to be the case with the first two issues.

It's a sort of teen romcom ... in the modern rather than classic Archie sense ...

Sitcoms on TV are on a decline — the ones that make it aren't as mundane as Archie seems after 75 years ... and as for more general "teen" shows, "Glee" and "High School Musical" showed they can work, but also sucked the air out of the room as far as competition — they also showed it's far to easy to overdo it, or do it wrong, so no one wants to try.

@DCR — I'm saying it needs a consistent feel — throwing in actual magic stuff ruins the feel they are trying for, comedy wouldn't do that — there's already some in there, and it could be cranked up quite a bit and be enjoyable ... but it should be grounded in reality since that's the tone they've set; if you want a magic/fantasy/superhero series, start a new comic in another Archiverse like they have for ChAoS & AWA

Read the post again - he's not referring to Archie (specifically avoiding the main 5 in fact)

Well, rich people's companies have offices too — and Mr.Lodge pretty much made himself the town's biggest employer when he moved there, so it's not surprising (though I'm pretty sure he didn't in the classic Archie — just general downtown office work there, but they did know each other due to their kids relationship)  ...

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 14, 2016, 05:05:24 AM
Having just read the entire 12 page story, I couldn't find anything the least bit unclear about it, or seeming as if it was meandering somehow in getting where it was going. Maybe it was the way you read it. Of course, I did read it all in one sitting, but it reads pretty much like any 12 page Archie story. Well, if it was featuring the Eerie Cuties characters of Tiffany Winters and her brother Dusty, and ACP stories allowed for any sort of extremely mild sexual humor. Tiffany's rival Tracy and Marine (the siren) are entirely new characters (at least, I don't remember Tracy from a previous Eerie Cuties story...) If it's unclear what a siren is or what she does, you'll have to look to Wikipedia.

Tiffany's school (Artemis Academy) mostly appears in Magic Chicks, where there's a whole raft of other students — most of whom Tiff would consider rivals and wouldn't get along with any better — but Tracy doesn't stand out in that crowd and I think she may in fact be new (at least in terms of having a separate, personal identity).

It's those extra hours that make the difference — today being the 14^th something that comes out on the 18^th is more than just 3 days away (even if it's less than 4)