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#1
All About Archie / Re: "Unknown Artists"
July 08, 2017, 02:40:53 AM
For a small company like Archie Comics, it probably isn't easy searching through 75+ years worth of files, comics and other records to find out who did what in the hundreds of comics they've printed.  Some of it is bound to slip through the cracks.
#3
I think it's yet another indication that no one knows what made Archie work in the past.  There may not be a long-term solution, and we're just going to keep seeing gimmick after gimmick, reboot after reboot...But if you really look at Archie's Publishing history, these books were always changing and rebooting...They just weren't as obvious about it as they are now.
#4
Popeye Classics #57
Duck Avenger #4
#5
Watching an episode of Columbo with family at dinner.
Earlier today I was watching Popeye cartoons.
#6
Quote from: Cosmo on April 10, 2017, 01:10:23 AM
Uncle Scrooge? Good stuff always and a natural for an Archie reader. Try Super Duck some time.
Super Duck is a fun series.  If Archie did a book of the best of Al Fagaly's Super Duck, I'd buy it.
#7
I liked Little Archie and His Pals, so I will look for Little Josie.
#8
Little Archie and His Pals one-shot
Mickey Mouse #19
Donald Duck #19
Uncle Scrooge #25
Duck Avenger New Adventures trade paperback
(Not all in one day, though).
#9
I noticed that too.  I'm haven't bought an Archie book in awhile, but this one looked fun, so I picked it up.  Very light reading, but fun. 
#10
I really want to believe that the Sabrina book will be released...
#11
If you like the early material, there's also Dark Horse's Archie Archives and Archie's Pal Jughead Archives which reprint the early material chronologically.
#12
I've been reading lots of Al Taliaferro Donald Duck comic strips, thanks to the IDW/Library of American Comics collections, as well as the 1980's Celestial Arts book "Uncle Scrooge McDuck: His Life and Times" which is composed of 11 classic Carl Barks Scrooge comics painted with watercolor, acrylic and airbrush techniques, with some colored pencil here and there.  The art looks amazing this way.
#13
Mickey's Craziest Adventures, a 44-page album sized comic https://www.idwpublishing.com/product/mickeys-craziest-adventures/
#14
Warning: Rant Ahead:
I have reached the jumping off point for the New Riverdale titles.  Betty and Veronica is a mess.  So much space in Issue #1 wasted on captions.  Our first view of Betty and Veronica on page 1 with them fighting is just awful as well.  Why on earth did Hot Dog narrate the story?  Why replace two pages of the story with more caption balloons and a pic of Betty and Veronica in bikinis for no reason? 
Off-topic, but Archie's storyline is just dragging on and becoming more and more unpleasant, between Cheryl Blossom's introduction and Archie's eating himself into the hospital.  Then we get a preview for the previous issue of Jughead instead of a classic reprint.  Jughead has been fun, but I get the sneaky fekeling that it isn't selling very well.  While fun, I just can't bring myself to start reading the Josie reboot.  I just get the feeling it'll end suddenly, like Life With Archie did, or be dropped to be replaced with a Riverdale comic (which is coming).  The 75th Anniversary Digests are a big rip-off, just reusing stories from the 75th Anniversary book and Best of Books (which may or may not eventually become Deluxe hardcovers anyways, so maybe I'll just wait). If the Super Specials keep up, I'll happily read them and Dark Horse's Archie Archives paperbacks, but honestly, it's hard not to be frustrated with Archie Comics right now.
End of Rant.
#15
Reviews / Re: Some reviews.
October 30, 2016, 07:31:35 PM
A few of the stories that were scanned in from printed comics have been replaced with awkwardly reinked versions, with new color added.  Some of the reinked stories were harder to notice the difference, but Pool Sharks and the Martial Arts Little Archie story are the worst looking "remastered" stories in the book.  Two of the stories that were dropped, the Archie's Weird Mysteries story and Ego-ology were drawn by Fernando Ruiz, and the new Sabrina story had an intro by Jonathan Gray, two people who are not working with Archie Comics anymore.  Coincidence or intentional?  I could be reading too much into it.  The Jinx pages are a curious deletion, as is the Animated Sabrina material, seeing as The New Archies material stayed in.  The New Riverdale material makes sense to be included, if mostly from a salesmanship standpoint.