Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on February 01, 2017, 12:11:07 AM
Great. Can't even start a thread related to the actual comics without having that damn TV show take it over like a cancer.

We should just take our comics chat to PM since almost no one reads the actual Archie Comics anymore.

Quote from: DakotaArchieFan on February 01, 2017, 12:02:02 AM
Not sure how much any of you watch TV ratings, but normal CW ratings are way lower than the other networks.  A .5 in the 18-49 rating is borderline but could be renewable for them.  The same website linked on the original post tracks their own renew/cancel predictions based off a formula that's been fairly accurate. So those really interested can check their site each week (usually on Tuesday they update their renew/cancel posts).

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South Dakota?   

Quote from: Alexandra Cabot on January 31, 2017, 05:58:12 AM

QuoteBefore you generally blame the Dems for NAFTA, don't forget that the Republicans share the blame for it, and some of them are just as "elitist". The Dems don't have the copyright on it. And President Obama did what he could, while the Republicans sat on their hands and did nothing, period, except be obstructionist. You see what you want to see, don't you, so it's pointless to take up this issue with you. DR's right. Let's get back to Sears/Kmart on this thread, and agree to disagree. Your call...

I'm not a Republican or a conservative.  You don't understand how out of touch the left is with people these days, so you're still going back to your binaries.  I don't think you realize what happened in the election at all honestly. 

As for NAFTA, it was the Clinton administration's fault, and people were still arrogant enough to put one of the policy wonks behind stealing everyone's jobs on the ballot.  You got the result unrestrained arrogance engenders. 

The left definitely has a market on elitism right now.  You are now represented by Marxist lunatics shouting at people about "white privilege."  The left is dead at this point.  What's left is some bizarre religion about virtue signalling to people on social media and places like California that are effectively a foreign country that thinks it will win back the people by having millionaire actors shout at them on television.   

Obama didn't do jack.  He was an ineffectual coward.  Hell, his second term was pretty much one long lame duck session because he was hiding out in the White House hiding from congress like a wimp or outside the country half the time.  You can blame that on obstructionists, but the truth is he was an ideological hack with no people skills who couldn't work with a congress from an opposite party like other presidents like Clinton or Reagan did.  Also ISIS loves the guy considering his foreign policy decisions gave it the power vacuum to exist.

QuoteHas California not been wildly progressive in their politics the last few decades?  Holy Cow.  I hate everyone in Connecticut, by the way.  They just don't look like proper Americans to me.  They smirk sometimes in photos. Connecticut is full of communist sympathizers, by my account. They're probably all commies. Every last one of them. North Carolina is also on my list, as is Maryland.  I'm just getting warmed up. South Dakota better hope I don't look your way!

How are you enjoying having your party's teeth kicked down its throat in an electoral landslide?      I'm loving it.   

Exactly what party is that?  Hopefully it's one with a proper stock of full to the brim red Solo cups. How is it you enjoy excoriating or bearing such malice towards large swaths of people? You must be from South Dakota.

Has California not been wildly progressive in their politics the last few decades?  Holy Cow.  I hate everyone in Connecticut, by the way.  They just don't look like proper Americans to me.  They smirk sometimes in photos. Connecticut is full of communist sympathizers, by my account. They're probably all commies. Every last one of them. North Carolina is also on my list, as is Maryland.  I'm just getting warmed up. South Dakota better hope I don't look your way!

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on January 26, 2017, 11:59:27 PM
The other thing to mention here is that there are several stories where Archie and his friends are definitely referred to as upperclassmen (which would include both Juniors and Seniors). There are innumerable stories with Reggie "giving the business" (as Eddie Haskell used to say on Leave It To Beaver) to some frosh, which he could hardly expect to get away with as a Sophomore. Yet there are also stories where some particular incidental character is referred to as being a Senior, which would never be mentioned if Archie and the gang were themselves Seniors. Taken altogether with other things we know like them all having driver's licenses (apart from maybe Jughead - although I think I may have even seen a story or two with him driving), and never thinking about college or post-graduation plans (which they would literally be forced to as Seniors) leads to the only reasonable conclusion... they are Juniors, which neatly accounts for all of these things.

Jughead's driven as far back as the 40's fwiw.

I expect I'll be eating a veggie burrito at approximately 9:10 pm and enjoying an adult beverage at about the same time. Around 9:35 I'll be posting incendiary comments on Twitter and if I still have my wits about myself I'll post some irrelevant nonsense here as well.

Happy Birthday "John Asperger"!      


I sincerely hope your health issues are soon on the mend and you're doing and feeling better all around.  Glad you're enjoying the new Archie series. Please take care.

My first exposure was The Mary Tyler Moore Show and she quickly became my favorite actress/comedienne.  It's wonderful that she left a body of work that people can continue to visit and enjoy for years to come.


I think that show and her role meant a lot to the Women's movement taking place in the early 70's, as it showed a single career minded woman in a positive light, not beholden to the idea that she needed to get married and have children in order to be a "whole" person.

As a kid we had K-Mart and Murphy's Mart which were almost identical in product and layout, and both had a cafeteria area where you could sit and eat, but I never heard of other locations having that, just the typical food stand stuff like hot dogs, etc.


I enjoyed the Sears Wish Book, too.  I spent countless hours every year with my nose buried in those.   

If the poll focus only covers Archie titles from the past four years I'll go with Archie #636. There's assuredly hundreds of books throughout ACP's history I'd otherwise select ahead of any of these.

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Quote from: steveinthecity on January 13, 2017, 11:22:29 PM
Eggs Actly.  Thank you for helping to make my point.   

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on January 14, 2017, 12:35:01 AMwhether the intended humor translates properly. When it doesn't though, it hardly does any good to fret about it. Just roll with it.

Why you two go off topic ,It doesn't make any sense

Because conversation never strays organically unless you're moderated by a psychiatrist?

Quote from: Archiecomicxfan215 on January 17, 2017, 06:35:17 PM
At 7pm i will be watching Jeopardy and at 7:30 I will be watching Wheel of Fortune

My concern for you grew exponentially sometime around 8:03.  By 8:05 I was not the sort to be reasoned with.  Hope all is well. I'm still a bit shakey, all things considered. There's Jonny Walker, though. It's in a blue box, so I think I'm hooked up.

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Quote from: Thestereotypebuster on January 11, 2017, 09:29:26 PM
I mean, we wouldn't want stories about Archie driving a jalopy and the characters making jokes about women drivers now a days, would we?

I would. I like those stories. There's something really endearing about them.
But I get what you're saying. And yet, even if throughout the years Archie has always been trying to be up to date with the modern times, the comics still feel vintage-y and nostalgic. At least that's how I feel about them. I don't know how to explain it exactly. Like for example, me as a kid in the 1980s reading 80s Archie stories, I never felt like they were modern. They always had that old (in a good way) feeling. Same in the 90s, same in the early 2000s. That is what I love about them. The classic, vintage, innocent feeling. That's what this new spin is lacking.

   When fictional stories are set in the present, they are not supposed to be any specific year, from what I understand.

Not trying to be contentious, but wouldn't the "present" be more more or less a specific year?  Give or take.

  Fiction set in the present is supposed to speak to audiences for many years after it is written and thus doesn't want to be tied to one specific year.

I guess I don't agree.  The "present" is in constant flux. Reading fiction 20 or 30 years after publication changes the perspective.  At least to me. Maybe we're talking about two different things.

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Quote from: apple on January 11, 2017, 09:06:47 PM
hm interesting how going against the norm, being different, and "going your own way" absolves you of all sexuality.

Like in language. We have words. That mean things. You can say you don't fit into any category all day long but in all honesty, you still actually do.

If Jughead had shown interest in girls none of you would be avoiding calling him straight just because weird people don't fit into labels. But whatever.

I think I already covered this in a post above, but he has shown interest in girls. But only in SOME stories. In others he's a "woman-hater", and other characters in the story specifically identify him by that label. I probably can't find a specific example to post here, or even more difficult to pin down, one where he identifies himself as a woman-hater (although it's certainly easy to find stories where he expresses his criticism of the female gender as a whole), but I can remember reading stories like that. The ones where he shows interest in girls are much easier to identify, and some of them are harder to quantify. One subject of debate revolves around Jughead's love relationship with January McAndrews, Marshall of the Time Police and a future descendant of Archie Andrews, which has raised a few eyebrows among people wondering just what exactly is going on there. There are even stories where Jughead dates Big Ethel and winds up having a good time. But it seems that in some stories he most definitely IS straight. Another good example of those would be LIFE WITH ARCHIE magazine (a.k.a. THE MARRIED LIFE in TP), where Jughead is married to Midge Klump.

Your argument doesn't fit or support the agenda. 

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Quote from: Thestereotypebuster on January 11, 2017, 09:29:26 PM
I mean, we wouldn't want stories about Archie driving a jalopy and the characters making jokes about women drivers now a days, would we?

I would. I like those stories. There's something really endearing about them.
But I get what you're saying. And yet, even if throughout the years Archie has always been trying to be up to date with the modern times, the comics still feel vintage-y and nostalgic. At least that's how I feel about them. I don't know how to explain it exactly. Like for example, me as a kid in the 1980s reading 80s Archie stories, I never felt like they were modern. They always had that old (in a good way) feeling. Same in the 90s, same in the early 2000s. That is what I love about them. The classic, vintage, innocent feeling. That's what this new spin is lacking.

   When fictional stories are set in the present, they are not supposed to be any specific year, from what I understand.

Not trying to be contentious, but wouldn't the "present" be more more or less a specific year?  Give or take.

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Quote from: steveinthecity on January 12, 2017, 09:27:09 PM
While I've just recently come to understand this is the most humorless message board in all the intranets, I would suggest your own humor and sarcasm meter be recalibrated when you have the opportunity.  PM me at your leisure so I might assist.

Huh? 

Eggs Actly.  Thank you for helping to make my point.