Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on June 02, 2016, 08:47:54 PM
There should be more Reggie & Betty kissing panels/stories 


You guys know that I am not in favor of CW's Riverdale show, but if they were to make Reggie & Betty a couple, I think maybe, probably they could win me over with that 

Quote from: BettyReggie on June 02, 2016, 09:11:10 PM
I looked up RiverDale on the Internet Movie Data Base & it said Reggie will only be in 16 episodes.The other will be in 23 episodes . And Reggie wasn't even shown in the trailer. So I hope they do put them together.

You guys are way more flexible than me, I don't want this clown show going near my favorite couples.




Heres a cute ad with Betty and Reggie for one of their stories.

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

The only relationship here is that they're mutual co-prisoners who can't stand each other. But it does look as though Mr. Lodge and Betty are next in line to see the Incan Justice of the Peace.

Yuck.

Quote from: Thrillho on June 05, 2016, 02:20:28 PM


I don't know about anyone else but I was laughing for minutes. It's even better out of context.

Hilarious! Who wrote it?

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

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 31, 2016, 05:41:28 PM
It also gives you more insight into both Midge's and Reggie's characters than has been the case in 75 years of classic Archie stories,

How?

Quoteso it's kind of a shame that none of that realy applies to the classic versions of the characters.

Everything important we learn about their characters in this issue (Midge using Reggie when she gets frustrated with Moose, Reggie thinking he might be psychopathic and being in love with Midge) already applies to their characters, it's just that the classic Archie writers always showed it to us instead of telling us. The story where Midge says her parents are divorcing or even the story we talked about earlier where Reggie's mother fawned over his narcissism, I would call those insightful because they gave us new possible reasons for why Midge and Reggie act as they do but theyre reasons most people probably never thought of before, unlike the Afterlife backstory.

Quote[size=0px]After Reggie comes back to the group, feigning remorse and contriteness in order to effect his plan of killing Betty, he's shunned by everyone except Archie, Betty and Kevin (and possibly, even Archie won't be willing to forgive him). Who is the most likely to reach out to him with forgiveness, sympathy and understanding? Betty Cooper, that's who. When Reggie realizes she's the only one who isn't judging him for his sins, he begins to realize just what a good person she is, and reflecting on his times with Midge, that she only ever really used him for her own purposes. He[/size][size=0px] was[/size][size=0px] planning to go through with his bargain and[/size][size=0px] kill[/size][size=0px] Betty, but[/size][size=0px] now[/size][size=0px] he finds himself falling in love with her...[/size]

Yeah Reggie won't be able to make himself kill Betty because she's the hope or holy one, I would say that if Reggie's going to fall in love with someone it'll probably be either Betty or, what do you think--Kevin? See this artist Gabbie Gross, the one who did BettyReggie's avatar and sig, has this whole blog arguing that Reggie in Afterlife is gay or bi and in love with Kevin: http://hireggiebireggie.tumblr.com/post/144892443723/the-case-for-a-bisexual-reggie-in-afterlife-with and she did lots of gay fan arts of the two as a couple including a whole fan comic, you can see them all here: http://gabbiegross.tumblr.com/ This surprised me because she says Betty/Reggie is her favorite Archie couple but Reggie is her favorite Archie character, I guess she likes to ship him with everybody (and girls love slash), she does make a fair argument that Reggie/Kevin might happen in Afterlife if they're looking for new boundaries to cross.

Quote from: Thrillho on May 31, 2016, 12:41:06 PM

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.

I'm more about Rachel Bilson but Leo's probably been the first crush for more people than any other celebrity.

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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!

Just take away Jughead's word balloon and you have Jughead and Veronica: The Married Life! 


Hot Dog eating with a fork, this is the most human I ever saw him in a standard Archie universe story.

What Veronica says about Betty having Archie all to herself was the one thing in the series that made me laugh.




Sort of off topic but here's a link to the Riverdale cast's answers to who their first celebrity crush was, Ill just put it here because Camila and Cole gave the best answers and I have nothing else right now.     http://betty-and-jughead.tumblr.com/post/145009279992/riverdale-cast-reveals-their-first-celebrity


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

Yeah and that would have made it even stranger that Veronica wasn't Princess Leia since he gets a date with her and they already have that Han-Leia hostilty going on.

I hope someone who has the issues can tell you which ones they are. It wouldn't surprise me if one person did both stories, the digests are full of miscredits.

Quote[size=0px]Both stories were inked by Henry Scarpelli, by the way, but that wouldn't seem to offer any real clues, other than it seems likely that both stories were created at the same time, and -- again, it only reinforces my suspicion that one of those writers is mis-credited, and that both stories are actually the work of either George Gladir or of Bob Bolling (my bet would be on Gladir). That's just a guess, and I[/size][/size][size=0px] could[/size][/size][size=0px] be wrong about that[/size]

I didn't read Prom Promoter but I read Prom Problem, it sounds like Bob Bolling:


The characters dropping their 'g's and contracting ("wonderin' who I should ask" "y'know") and simple spellings ("tho")


Funny alliterated band names ("Gilly And The Gig Pigs" "Persistent Pain") and strange named business or entity ("Tijuana Marvin's") followed by funny comment about them ("I love their salsa bagels")


The action wrapping up and then followed with a couple quiet panels with the main character talking to himself or someone else


Fantasy characters like you said, especially when they hang around a lot and do funny stuff or make funny esoteric comments ("I've always been able to reach him as he passes through his third level of consciousness"), the angel competing with the devil and playing his sappy ballads as a weapon against him through almost the whole story. George Gladir's devil and angel wouldve hung around much less.


The reveal of Archie hiding in the baby carriage by Pop done in quietly absurd Bob Bolling way


Random funny stuff wherever it can be stuck in


"Prom Promoter" sounds like Bolling too, Gladir wouldnt have made Veronica do stuff as whimsical as having the band play her off as she leaves or flying over Betty's house and dropping a note that says without you I'm losing my competitive edge. That's the kind of eccentric rich screwball stuff Bolling liked to use for her.


This is starting to depress me, thinking about how Bob Bolling's great funny scripts have been replaced by the snoozefest we get now.

To go with the story I just posted in the villainous Veronica thread. This story is good except I don't know why Dan Jr. didn't draw Veronica as Princess Leia, that's probably what the writer wanted since all the others are Star Wars characters.

QuoteShe just can't help it. It's like a medical condition

Roberto is that you?

It's all true but the last three panels make it all worthwhile.

I read it again and I'm more objective now but sorry, I don't have the high opinion of this issue, or at this point the whole series, that some other people here do, and I don't want to be a downer so I'll just say this:

Switching writers at this point would be a good idea. Roberto's going to be too busy with the tv series and many writers could do this story, including many of the regular writers who used to or still do work for Archie. All Roberto has to do is give some general directions and they're set.

Quote from: Thrillho on May 26, 2016, 08:55:39 PM

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'm not sure. I agree that Betty might die some other way though, I agree about the others being wrong to turn their backs on Reggie too.

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 25, 2016, 03:46:06 AM

Quote from: daren on May 25, 2016, 02:43:05 AM
I finished the Blue Baron, liked it a lot. Now I'm brushing up on Afterlife 1-8 so I'll know what's going on when I read 9 tomorrow. I'm not looking forward to it, every reread I do of this series makes me like it less and the next issue sounds like it could misstep badly. I hope the character who does the "unexpected act of kindness" that makes Reggie confess is one of two characters even though it's not likely. 

Cheryl or Veronica. Otherwise the kindness would not be "unexpected". I won't read it until next week.

The two I had in mind weren't even in the issue after all.