Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on June 01, 2016, 02:05:39 AM
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.

Sarcasm doesn't travel well across the internet, does it?

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on June 01, 2016, 02:24:20 AM

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!"

Meanwhile, there is no evidence to indicate that she called anyone else. Occam's Razor, the hypothesis with the least assumptions should be selected. Jughead actually says Veronica invited him and Hot Dog. Also, Veronica's reputation as a bad cook wasn't firmly established yet, so the others would have no reason to avoid her cooking. I think it's obvious Veronica invited Jughead and Hot Dog because they can put away a lot food quickly, but this thread is 50% shipping, so of course we're just having fun with the stories.

Quote from: daren on May 31, 2016, 09:16:18 PM
Just take away Jughead's word balloon and you have Jughead and Veronica: The Married Life! 

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

Quote from: daren on May 31, 2016, 09:16:18 PM
Hot Dog eating with a fork, this is the most human I ever saw him in a standard Archie universe story.

I think Veronica just meant to invite Hot Dog and Jughead tagged along. After all, he does have impeccable table manners, better than Jughead. He's slicing his pancakes before he eats them while Jughead is just stuffing them in his mouth one at a time.

Quote from: daren on May 31, 2016, 09:52:51 PM

Quote from: Thrillho on May 31, 2016, 07:14:15 PM

Do you this Veronica is that awful? Before I was interested in seeing what would happen if Betty died, but not if that means Midge will come back in any form. Yes, I am a hater.

Where did you get this from, I need this

It's made its way around the interwebz for years, so I just googled "haters gonna hate gif" and it pops right up.

Quote from: BettyReggie on May 31, 2016, 10:00:45 PM
I think it would be good if they made Veronica happy that Betty was out of the picture. Because Betty & Veronica's relationship is that really just frenimes. Veroncia Gets what she wants no matter what. It's her way or the High way.

I guess since it's AU, it's possible but I get the feeling that even in this universe, Veronica enjoys the competition. I've read the scripts and RAS says as much in his notes. Maybe Veronica would have the fleeting satisfaction that comes from "winning" but I think she'd be crushed by the loss of her best friend.

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 31, 2016, 06:26:02 PM

That seemed to be what was being implied in the restaurant scene -- and furthermore, it was implied that the baby wasn't Moose's, either! (... and from Reggie's story, we can surmise it isn't his either.) But we'll probably not get any further enlightenment on that particular point.

I didn't even think of that when I read that scene.  I thought she was talking about an abortion for sure but I thought Midge's "none of his business" "nothing to do with him" bit was more of a "my body, my choice" thing. I never considered there might be a third guy in that mess.



There's also the possibility she isn't pregnant but it was just a scare instead.

Quote from: BettyReggie on May 31, 2016, 06:02:38 PM
Poor Archie, they supposed to get married. But Veronica will be thrilled I think to have Betty out of picture.

Do you this Veronica is that awful? Before I was interested in seeing what would happen if Betty died, but not if that means Midge will come back in any form. Yes, I am a hater.

Quote from: daren on May 31, 2016, 03:00:08 AM
What Veronica says about Betty having Archie all to herself was the one thing in the series that made me laugh.

The joke is on Veronica since she didn't need to die for Betty to have Archie all to herself in AWA.  I love Veronica but sometimes she needs to be taken down a peg or two.

Quote from: daren on May 31, 2016, 03:00:08 AM


Sorry it's on the Betty and Jughead shipping tumblr, that's who posted it. 

No worries! I think everyone here is supportive of whatever pairing anyone wants to ship. 

Cole's answer was cute, but I agree with Lili Reinhart, my first celebrity crush was Leo too.

Continuing on my theme of Jughead and Veronica ending up as each other's dates...

Okay not exactly a date...


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

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 27, 2016, 03:16:20 PM

Exactly the story I was thinking of when I typed my spiel.

Here's some gruesome AU Jughead/Veronica stuff. Minimized for gore, click to enlarge.

Dilton playing the part of Trula

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 29, 2016, 12:16:02 AM

Quote from: BettyReggie on May 28, 2016, 11:54:42 AM
I'm guessing mine will come today. But I did listen to Riverdale Podcast, so I know what happens. I'm just wondering what's going when the book ends. Will Riverdale go back to normal. Was it all dream? 

Yes, that would be the happy ending to a zombie story that involves Dan Parent drawing the final page, which I referred to in an earlier post. To me that would be the ideal ending, but I'm sure it would just tick some other readers off, particularly (but by no means exclusively) the non-classic Archie readers.

The more conventionally expected ending would be "You die, he dies, she dies, everybody dies." (More likely though, everybody BUT Archie.)

I wouldn't really go for that. The whole point of AWA is that it's supposed to be an alternate universe so I expect/want something that deviates from classic Archie. I think a truly happy ending is out of the realm of possibility as they've already lost too many family members and friends, and I think a time spell or something like that would be a cop out. I can see a bittersweet ending where the survivors come to terms with their losses, get to burying their loved ones, and being hopeful about the future. I also don't see everyone dying as this book takes itself more seriously than Archie vs. Predator did.

Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on May 27, 2016, 12:09:47 PM

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 27, 2016, 01:51:24 AM
So what do you REALLY think of Archie Andrews dating your daughter, Mr. Cooper?   

Do it! Do it!


From what story is this from?

Lol, is it the infamous Betty and Me #40?

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 27, 2016, 02:03:30 AM

Quote from: Thrillho on May 26, 2016, 09:04:02 PM
Hmmm....not sure how I feel about Camila Mendes saying it's hard for Veronica to be good.

So your take on Veronica is that it's easy for her to be good, it's just that there's no fun in it for her so why bother?

Neither. I wasn't sure about Camila Mendes' quote, like if Veronica has ulterior motives or something and since they're using Twin Peaks as an example, I was wondering if she was going to end up like Josie Packard.

My take with Veronica is that she's immature and spoiled so she doesn't always do the right thing but it doesn't come from a place of malice, just that she's selfishly driven and she will make amends when she knows she's done something wrong. Most of the time her selfishness isn't that harmful for people around her, just annoying. I wouldn't say it's easy or hard for her to be good because most of acknowledge she has a good heart but as I said, she also has a selfish streak.

Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on May 27, 2016, 12:30:04 PM

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 27, 2016, 02:03:30 AM

QuoteBoth actors admit to having not read the Archie Comics before being cast, but have since pored through them to be sure to get their characters right.

Good thing that Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa was careful to provide the actors only with Archie comics that he'd written himself! 

"To be sure to get their characters right"  Ha! That's laughable 


"admit to having not read the Archie Comics before being cast" Okay, this answers the question I had and had asked in the other Riverdale thread. I just knew none of them had read AC before.

It wouldn't help anyway since Riverdale is so drastically different from classic Archie.

Quote from: spazaru on May 27, 2016, 09:26:59 AM
It's a shame Archie Comics can't get it out regularly and now with the TV show, I'm not hopeful since Roberto writes both.  Oh well.

I wonder about that too. Would you prefer it come out regularly with another writer or have RAS see it through until the end?

I wanted to post this one for a while.





I think Jug thinks Reggie's gay.  After all, he did set up Reggie with Archie before.

I don't want to spam the Jughead thread with Jughead/Veronica dates so I'll just spam this thread instead. I have plenty of examples. 

Quote from: daren on May 26, 2016, 03:50:22 AM
I found this link to some questions that Cole Sprouse and Camila Mendes answered about the show if anyone's interested, I was surprised at what Cole says about the show taking cues from those Jughead detective stories in the digests.


http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/17/riverdale-archie-like-twin-peaks-cw

Hmmm....not sure how I feel about Camila Mendes saying it's hard for Veronica to be good.

Quote from: daren on May 26, 2016, 03:36:01 AM

Quote from: Thrillho on May 25, 2016, 12:03:36 PM

This is issue was a big game changer, and also quite sad. I guess we now know what Betty R.I.P. means, but will Reggie succeed?

I doubt it, if he killed her he'd be another guy driven to evil out of desire for a girl and we just went there with Jason.

But why kill Betty though? How will her death help the evil zombie horde? I think her death might be likely, as apparently she and Archie are going through with their wedding, I don't think Roberto Aguirre Sacasa will let them get too happy.

Another one of Archie's not-so-best moments