It's been said over and over - Erica Henderson is a terrible artist. For the record, I really don't like her style at all, but I don't think it's terrible. I hate to say this, but it's not really any worse than some of Stan G's later work. Erica's just not a good fit for Archie. She should be working on some underground independent title without any established history.


Anyhow, to my point, the writing on Jughead reminds me a lot of classic Jughead. Classic Jughead found himself in a lot of surreal fantasy situations, as he is now. Chip's take on the character is basically rooted in tradition, and I imagine if Rex Lindsey or Frenando Ruiz was illustrating this title instead of Erica, people would like it a lot.


On the other hand, I find Archie's book moving along way too slowly. I don't really find the characters are being developed much. Can you imagine people reading this without any previous knowledge of Archie whatsoever? We're seven isues in (about 150 pages!) and what's happened? Not much. It's not fun or funny. It's not entertaining. The art is prettier than that on Jughead, but to me it's just the lesser of two evils.


Of course, this is all personal opinion. I'm not right or wrong, it's just my take on things. Would anyone else care to share their take on things?

Mine represents Star Wars.

BettyReggie, I wish my library had the kind of selection that yours does. Sounds like you have a pretty awesome resource there!

I don't think a poll has ever covered this, but I could be wrong. Personally, it's Classic Archie for me!

I was just reading over the Archie "choose-your-own-adventure" story I started writing online several years back, and I came across this part:


What's the point, you think yourself, life as I know it is over... there's no happiness to be found living in Riverdale.
A knock at your bedroom door interrupts you from your miseable thoughts, and your mother asks to come in. You respond with a gloomy "whatever"."You know, Stanley," your mother says as she peeks her head through the door, "I was seventeen once, too. Things may seem hard to you now, but you'll survive. Life goes on.""Well," you reply with a mumble, "I miss my friends... and there's nothing to do here.""Then it's time to make new friends. I'm sure there are plenty of nice kids your age living in Riverdale.""Yeah, well," you pause momentarily, "...well, they can't replace Fernando and Dan. They can't replace Gisele and-"

o so at http://riverdaleadventures.weebly.com

I miss Fernando, Dan and Gisele. Maybe somebody wants to motivate me to finish it?

You know what would be better? A tin shaped like Archie's old jalopy, full of Nuts & Bolts.

At the rate I post at, I'll be a newbie for the next 10 years...

... and for some silly reason, I can't figure out how to add friends