Something about the way you wrote "What happened to the shoutbox??! Why are there a whole bunch of messages missing?!" just doesn't fill me with trust.

If they do, they'll probably just shrug because that's the status quo in Riverdale. Moose is going to have a 'soft spot for milfs.' Reggie asks Archie if he 'tapped any milf ass this summer.' I'd be amazed if Jughead isn't in on it too.

Someone in the Riverdale thread said something about Archie Comics wondering what they would do if the show doesn't succeed, but how will it help if it does succeed? This show is so different from their backlog of stories and even from the reboot, there won't be many new crossover fans from tv, if there ever are many for shows based on comics. And what about when the show ends in, at the most, seven years?

Someone just wiped out a whole day's worth of messages and I think his name begins with an A unless someone else did it by accident. I'd post this in the shoutbox except it'll probably disappear like the rest. Oldiesmann, can you change the settings, please?

Classic Archie drawn in the house style.

I'd like to see the rest of it.

But seriously, I do agree with the sentiment behind this thread, and I can't understand why Archie is allowing Aguirre-Sacasa to take the property in a direction that will probably hurt the company in the long run by fooling people into thinking the squeaky clean old Archie is boring.

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LOL this is hilarious
Does he have a Twitter? We should all tweet him at the same time about this hahaha!!




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Maybe if we lobby for Veronica/Mr. Weatherbee at the same time.

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However, one brave soul, a screen writing legend behind such Citizen Kane-esque masterpieces as random Glee episodes and the 15th remake of Carrie,

What, no The Town That Dreaded Sundown?

(Really, as an aside to anyone reading this who thinks AwA is a masterpiece, watch that film. It's amazing how trite the whole "small town with creepy secrets and bloody killings" premise is when the characters aren't named Archie, Betty, Veronica, etc.)

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Thank God that Archie CEO Jon Goldwater made Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa chief creative officer for the entire company, because this is a man who knows what he's doing!

Isn't he the Chief Operating Officer now?

There's a great old story where Miss Grundy swoons because Archie kisses her cheek. Of course, she didn't look like Sara Habel so it was actually funny.

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What's up with miss grundy?!?!
Like really?! A young hot 20 something year old looks like

Well, according to script leaks Archie is having affair with one of his teachers .... doesn't say which of course, but why add no-name teachers ...

All the guys will fall in love with the new Miss Grundy! 

For a series that prides itself on diversity, it's odd that they're making all the old ugly characters young, skinny and hot.

Why would you trust the words that come out of these people's mouths in the first place?  They've consistently lied to people about stuff including titles being canceled and a shady as heck Kickstarter campaign.  It's just the comic book/nerd media is in the tank for Nu Archie Comics, so the only thing they do is lavish on praise.

Oh, I don't trust them anymore, or the reviewers who act like the horror titles and reboots are the second coming (though the reboots are better). I was just being sarcastic about their hypocrisy.

Anything coming out of internet meida about nerdy subjects is extremely corrupted.  A lot of people don't understand this except for maybe video game fans.  The people that priase them for everything don't represent their fans or even comic book readers.  Most of them take jobs like this as a second choice because they couldn't make the cut to write tripe for the Huffington Post. etc.  Some of them are even ghost written by complete randos who just want the money.  I do freelance writing, I've seen this kind of thing first hand.

One of the authors of a recent article straight up admitted to having never read Archie Comics but still criticized old Archie as "conservative" as a device for praising new changes like the ones in this TV pilot.  LOL!  The sad thing is the CEO is probably so out of touch he doesn't know the internet media and Twitter activists that praise him are a bunch of bullshit artists that don't care about whether or not the company is able to survive financially.

I didn't know that insider stuff about the people who write reviews, but I thought something must be up for them to say the new titles are  so much better than the house style stories. They can't be that stupid.

Quote from: B-ko on April 05, 2016, 03:26:23 PM

Current Archie Logic:

Reggie has dark hair + Asian people have dark hair = Reggie is Asian!
Dilton has dark hair + Asian people have dark hair = Dilton is Asian!
Veronica has dark hair + Latinas have dark hair = Veronica is Latina!

I agree with this. I'm a minority and I've never wanted the characters to look like me or anything but white.

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Quote from: kassandralove on April 05, 2016, 12:44:04 PM
What's up with miss grundy?!?!
Like really?! A young hot 20 something year old looks like

Well, according to script leaks Archie is having affair with one of his teachers .... doesn't say which of course, but why add no-name teachers ...

All the guys will fall in love with the new Miss Grundy! 

For a series that prides itself on diversity, it's odd that they're making all the old ugly characters young, skinny and hot.

Why would you trust the words that come out of these people's mouths in the first place?  They've consistently lied to people about stuff including titles being canceled and a shady as heck Kickstarter campaign.  It's just the comic book/nerd media is in the tank for Nu Archie Comics, so the only thing they do is lavish on praise.

Oh, I don't trust them anymore, or the reviewers who act like the horror titles and reboots are the second coming (though the reboots are better). I was just being sarcastic about their hypocrisy.

Nice post. I agree with the baker that the 1950s was the right approach, but I can see why that's also a bit of a dead end for the company when it's trying to be thought of as modern.

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Quote from: kassandralove on April 05, 2016, 12:44:04 PM
What's up with miss grundy?!?!
Like really?! A young hot 20 something year old looks like

Well, according to script leaks Archie is having affair with one of his teachers .... doesn't say which of course, but why add no-name teachers ...

All the guys will fall in love with the new Miss Grundy! 

For a series that prides itself on diversity, it's odd that they're making all the old ugly characters young, skinny and hot.

I wish they had bars for Reggie and non-zombie Jughead instead of Afterlife with Archie. The Archie-Betty-Veronica wrappers are cute, though.

Not just Hot For Teacher. One of the script leaks describes Moose as having 'a soft spot for milfs.' Between that, the casting and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's mediocre writing, I won't be watching this. In fact, I'm almost glad the casting is so bizarre because it might ensure that after this series ends, people won't associate it with Archie.