Hi richard, you have to complain directly to Archie Comics for that (and you should--that sucks): www.archiecomics.com. This is an independent forum.

Sorry I never heard of it.

Quote from: Musical_Necromancer on June 29, 2016, 09:59:33 PM
Back on the old forums we used to have this topic about archie's weird mysteries and all of it's episodes

I'm making another one because it deserves it as the last cartoon centered around the riverdale gang and probably the most interesting one as it was the first foray into An Exclusively Supernatural Focused Archie Series(this was long before Afterlife With Archie Became A Thing)

it didn't help that it aired on a network unknown to Most (PAX...which is now known as ION Television and now only dabbles in Reruns of shows made famous by other networks)

I never watched all of it and what I saw I don't remember now, any best episodes that stick out?

I don't think b-ko is going to be happy when he finds out Roberto's tweeting his or her edits. 

Quote from: Thrillho on June 28, 2016, 11:55:35 PM

Cute! Do you have a link?

No but the tumblr is paperfrays.tumblr.com, I should have put that in.

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on June 28, 2016, 03:26:54 PM
So far I've only read the preview pages online. I have to say I'm a little put off by the limited coloring choice -- to be honest, it seems a little pretentious, like it's trying to make it look less like "classic Archie" and more like "alternative comic".

I think I'll probably wait for the print edition. To tell the truth, I'm still hoping they'll reconsider and go with traditional coloring on the print version.

Come on De, if they don't sell enough of the digital version there might not be a print edition, I'll buy you a copy.

Hey you should do another one PTF, that was awesome!

Quote from: Thrillho on June 28, 2016, 11:37:58 PM

Quote from: daren on June 28, 2016, 01:59:46 AM

I have read this story before and I can't believe I didn't notice what Jughead said.  Sometimes I'm surprised what Archie gets away with.

Yeah, and even stranger that Al Hartley wrote it. I think that MUST be miscredited, I can't believe he would put that in there!

I hope my comment about plants didn't sound wrong, I meant that ACP might have hired a plant to come on the board, not that Oldiesmann did. 

Quote from: SAGG on June 29, 2016, 04:19:53 AM
Leave it to me to inadvertently get you two to actually agree on something on these boards.  

Are we that bad? 

Yeah exactly, the classic Archie talents could take it in a whole new direction. I like your idea of a group title too.


Possible stories: Betty's title could be in the tone of Betty's Diary with Betty journaling and planning to be a writer. She could have Sayid as a boyfriend, at least at first, Sayid has a lot of younger brothers and sisters and Betty likes kids, somehow I'd like to see Sayid as a cat person too so that would give them another link. Then there could be some drama dealing with Islamophobia the way they dealt with homophobia a few years ago with Betty and Sayid just wanting to be a quiet couple but some people won't let them, then maybe Betty's brother Chic visits Riverdale as part of his CIA job because of some alleged anti government activity by someone close to Sayid, and Chic has to balance his commitment to national security with civil liberties (and not hurting his sister), but it turns out to be a false alarm. Kevin could spend some time with them too, usually I like him better with Veronica but for this story I think he would be good. Cheryl might be there too since she gets along better with Betty than anyone and Betty has some of the same chemistry with her that she has with Veronica, and then Jason could show up and be a rival with Sayid for Betty.


I'd like to see Jughead spend more time with Hot Dog and his Uncle Herman (his REAL Uncle Herman, the one who hasn't been around since the '50s) and maybe Souphead, Uncle Herman would get them into all kinds of trouble. I also like the whole detective Jughead idea from the digests (the one the tv show is going with) so he could do some of that with mysteries involving food. Ethel and Trula could show up and be rivals for Jughead with neither of them getting anywhere till in one story he's driven to fake his own death. They could also show a little more of the Jones family history and relatives, they seem like the most interesting Riverdale family besides the Lodges.


For Reggie I'd like him to spend a LOT more time with both his parents, also to see Reggie spend more time at his father's newspaper doing a lot of jobs that end up causing trouble but we also see that he's smarter than he's sometimes given credit for. I've always wanted to see Reggie be friends with Chuck too, just because neither of them have a close friend (not that there's anything wrong with that but we need some drama) and they're both into sports. Except Chuck is more of a henpecked cartoonist now, so Reggie starts trying to get Chuck to spend more time doing sports and maybe cruising around with him picking up girls, which causes stress between them, between Chuck and Nancy and between Nancy and Reggie. Coach Clayton would be a big part too, and Moose and Midge just because their triangle is funny sometimes.


Veronica would be the one main character I would want to see without ANY supporting characters except her relatives and the Lodge staff, I'd like to see if it could be pulled off. Or maybe there would be a few appearances by Kevin just showing him talking to her on the phone, but that's all. Her title would be all about her having to learn about her dad's business trying to come to grips with what's expected of her someday as his heir, finding her place in the sprawling Lodge family tree which we would learn more about as we see her meeting her relatives (both the ones we know like Leroy, Marcy and Harper and new ones) and learning about all the family drama which would have partly included her father as we see flashbacks to his younger years and such, and flashbacks to Veronica's younger years and she has self-realizations and identity crises, the Lodges are so full of potential I can't really decide on one approach.


Archie's both the hardest and easiest one, the easiest because he would have the easiest time by far of selling his own title and the hardest because I can't think of anything I REALLY want to see him do because he does so much already. Probably something to do with a lot of physical danger and risks, he's good at that and would make a lot of exciting stories, with a lot of girls thrown in. Maybe Dilton could have some kind of partnership with him where Archie's his ongoing test subject.


A lot of that is obvious stuff that people probably already want to see, if not in the form I described, I'm sure the pro writers could do a better job with actual plots though.

In honor of Shark Week

How was it?

This is a good question, I need to sit on it. I can't write that well and I wouldn't want to do any creative work for Archie anyway but if I was a billionaire who bought the company one thing I would try as an experiment would be rehiring the classic Archie artists to write and draw titles for each of the main five with the rule that none of them could appear in each other's books. Even though they work best as a unit I'd want to see how they each stand up on their own. But I have to think about what they'd each do.

I saw some more panels from that story somewhere, I'll try to find it.

I loved it. I didn't realize how hard I miss classic Archie in the regular titles till I read it. If anyone wants a copy but can't afford it just PM me and I'll buy you one.