Since so much stuff was destroyed in the old board's collapse I fuguure we - I - might as well re-post old threads/topics .

...Please do then .

Quote from: Oldiesmann on June 12, 2016, 10:08:05 PM
I can put it back up.

...When I lived in Santa Cruz , Atlantis was my LCS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  I was going to bring up the exclusive they had for the new ARCHIE #1 , but I forgot that !!!!!!!!!!!!

Quote from: nuageo on June 13, 2016, 06:46:20 PM
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...Business/structure/planning-wise , I mean .
  Has it been about two years since I was here ? It's been , stretching , about two years that my health , at least in part , has kept be bouncing around along the coastal Pacific Northwest , Santa Cruz to Olympia , Bellingham , Seattle , Santa Cruz again and back to San Francisco .
  About two years back , IIRC , Archie had cut down on digests a bit , and was down to just one Archie 32-pager , the ARCHIE monthly .
  I had found out that they were still publishing modern-style humorous/cartoon Archie in the digests , while doing the " new approach " in the 32-pagers (Of which I have only seen the " ARCHIE " title - I have had #s 1 , 2 , and 7 , which last came off like the end of a story arc , but I see the first TPB in of #s1-6 - I suppose they had planned to do the standard length already ?) . It seemed a bit sad , but okay (That make any sense ?) .
  But now , is Archie-the-company apparently planning to move away from new stories from the digests ENTIRELY , and bet the farm ~ I suppose ~ 100% on the new approach , and I guess hope that the " RIVERDALE " TV series will be the cavalry ? (I tend maybe doubt that modern-day TV shows help the sales of the base comic all that much , it isn't the 60s or even the 80s anymore .)
  So Dan Parent ~ going through already-bought scripts ~ and semi-retired Bob Bolling are ALL the creators working on digest material now ?
  I bought the first couple Chilling Sabrinas , but the endless delays at least contributed to me falling off . I never got on board with Afterlife With . There's that lawsuit/sexual harassment thing between Archie-owner factions , too ~ I don't know whether I ever mentioned this here , but HARPER'S magazine put  a brief bit about it i their front-of-the-book kin d of " oddball bits " section a bit back , thy were , obviously , amused by the whole concept , as many " normals " would be .

...Thank you .
  When I was fairly new back here in San Francisco , in a Walgreen's store (On Mission Street , on the same block as the ~ alas ~ now-closed Cartoon Art Museum .) , in their magazine rack ~ I saw BETTY AND VERONICA #277 . I bought it .
  They had a couple of copies , neatly racekd , no other comics in their racks .
  It odd/interesting to me how you sometimes see this , just a couple , or just one , even , comic book showing up in a " normal " magazine rack .
  Unfortunately , I missed #278  ~ I recently realized that I missed the " final : ARCHIE ish , #66 , devili shly  , too ...........

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Quote from: ASS-P on June 13, 2016, 02:32:06 PM
Can anyone direct me , please , to a site where the last few ishes of the now-discontinued last B&V covers are up , please ?

MyComicShop.com

Let's make this an all-purpose thread for reporting our sightings , etc. of Archie stuff ~ especially the ACTUAL comic books and digests (I guess many?? people here would tend to reserve " comic books " for " standard " 32-pagers so thinking of that I wrote it that way)  !
  I bought a Jughead and Archie?? at a Safeway here in San Francisco t'other day , " the Castro Safeway " . They also had World Of Archie , IIRC . I was going to look up the last issue of the 32-page " last " B&V series ~ but this computer workshop's computers blocks comics.org !!!!!!!!!!! FRICKEN FRATTEN RITZEN RATTEN .
  Can anyone direct me , please , to a site where the last few ishes of the now-discontinued last B&V covers are up , please ?

...Geez  .

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on June 12, 2016, 01:09:38 AM
According to Fernando Ruiz, the only classic Archie creator actively creating new work for ACP is Dan Parent. Of course, there still exists an inventory of scripts which had already been paid for that DP will probably be drawing. For as long as that lasts, anyway. Somehow I don't expect to see any more new stories in the digests by the time 2016 ends.

...Meaning that the choice of stories that are reprinted has gone downhill in quality ?

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Quote from: ASS-P on June 11, 2016, 04:06:41 PM
Once and for all , is the balance of the Archie digests , in general ~ Or , HAS it been , since I get the impression that , in my absence , something has gone a little rotten in Mamaroneck business-wise !!!!!!!!!!! Has it , up until Donald Trump threw his hairpiece in the ring , say , the recent past ~ Have the Archie digests generally had (1) The first story and (2) the last story being new ones ?
  Plus maybe some other full-fleged stories , and some filllers/gags of some kind .
  What has the general balance/placing of new against old material in the digests been ?

Since the middle of 2014, the first (a.k.a. "lead") story in every digest has been new. The last few months of solicitations for forthcoming ACP products have contained a number solicitation descriptions for digests in which the "lead stories" have NOT been described as "new", but instead "fun", "entertaining", "exciting", etc. which leads me to believe that there is no longer any guarantee that each digest will contain a new story. I suspect they are just keeping Dan Parent employed for as long as it takes to use up the inventory of already-purchased scripts.

You don't think they'll eventually get rid of Mr. Parent after getting enough scripts written and drawn, do you?

I suppose as long as they're still publishing Archie digests, they will need covers. Also artwork for various merchandising efforts. I'm afraid even the reprinting of classic Archie stories has sunk to an all-time low.

...I see there's no longer a ink to Archie ~ Or to , what I noticed first , the newspaper strip ~ on the front page here .  !

...Briefly , a lot of newspapers out here on the West Coast publish , on Saturdays , an " early Sunday " edition ~ billed as that ~ with Saturday's newspaper , but the Sunday comics and ad supplements , or something like that ~ and , again , billed as " Early Sunday " .
  An attempt by the bosses to get around paying their people for two days , just one instead on the petense that " It's just two Sunday editions " ? Then no doubt they'd say it was " being lean & mean " and " doing more with less " (My parents were both newspaper reporters .)...

Quote from: ASS-P on June 11, 2016, 04:33:42 PM
I put a fairly lengthy post on this subject up but my " Time to stay logged in" expired on me !  FRICKEN FRACKEN RICKEN RATTEN ! 

I put a fairly lengthy ost on this subject up but my " Time to stay logged in" expired on me !  FRICKEN FRACKEN RICKEN RATTEN ! 

...A reboot !!!!!!!!!!! A reimagining , for the 21st Century !!!!!!!!!!! " REBIRTH " !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Once and for all , is the balance of the Archie digests , in general ~ Or , HAS it been , since I get the impression that , in my absence , something has gone a little rotten in Mamaroneck business-wise !!!!!!!!!!! Has it , up until Donald Trump threw his hairpiece in the ring , say , the recent past ~ Have the Archie digests generally had (1) The first story and (2) the last story being new ones ?
  Plus maybe some other full-fleged stories , and some filllers/gags of some kind .
  What has the general balance/placing of new against old material in the digests been ?

Is Bob Bolling still working for Archie ? That digest I mentioned buying recently had a (I presume) new story by him , the last one ~ If Bob is still active , I think tht might mke hime the only still-active Silver Age artist !!!!!!!!! (Of course , Stan Lee ~ and , actually , Roy Thomas ~ ar still active , as far as WRITERS go... )