I would like to see a cartoon.

   I found the episode to be quite interesting.  Jughead and Betty are certainly friends, but I don't think their relationship goes beyond that. 

I have (or had) a few things.  I have an Archies LP and an Archies CD.  I have the Archie Bobble Head Doll.  I have a complete set of the Archie Cars McDonalds gave out in the 1980s (actually New Archies.).  I had a small puzzle of Archie on a bed when I was a boy.  I have some Archie T-shirts.  I had a Jughead costume and an Archie Comics hat.  I have an Archie Comics Pinball game from the 1980s.  I had Archie figurines and dolls but sold them because I needed the money.

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on March 06, 2017, 10:38:05 AM
When was volume #321 published and by whom?


  The book was published in 2016.

I had a slow day at work recently and discovered my library system owned a copy of The Early Archie: Classic Comics Library #321 His Adventures From Pep Comics and Jackpot Comics.  The book is strange.The book is 396 pages long.  There is no identification of what comic books these stories originally appeared in, or even the year of their release.  I think all the stories were written in the 1940s.  Many of them are in the Dark Horse collections, but some were not.  The book claims not to have any ads on the back cover, but actually there are several ads for the Archie Radio Show in it. 
[/size]   Has anyone else here seen this book?

Quote from: Alexandra Cabot on February 27, 2017, 07:43:43 AM
It's shit.

    It's stupid comments like this that make using the Internet much less enjoyable than it should be.  No one gains anything from such a comment.   I think all of the changes from the comic books (there are many) are a mistake, but the show is still fairly interesting.  Veronica, in particular, is well acted.  I could not pass up the chance to see these characters on TV, in any case. I regret the overall serious tone.  I wish there were a lot more humor.   
    If nothing else, the actors make great photographs (screen caps). 

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Quote from: kassandralove on February 27, 2017, 08:02:15 PM
I rewatched this episode and was thinking if they are going to do a jughead loves Betty story line.
Jughead played Rebel without a Cause out of Betty's suggestion. I wonder if it ties into how he likes her more then a friend? 


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Well I saw there's a video of them kissing so it seems there is going to be a romantic plot with those two.

   Yet, another mistake.

I have never read Afterlife with Archie, but I would guess that yes, Cheryl's nightmare was a reference to it.  I dislike the idea of Archie's father "fooling around."  That is too far out of character.  I seem to recall a "rule" of some sort that main character parents on TV shows had to be respectable, but that must be gone now.  Although Married...With Children wasn't all that recent, come to think of it...

 I splurged for the season pass from Amazon.  I figured Archie Comics could use the money.  I am assuming Archie Comics gets money for my purchase.
    Once again, I watched with the sound off and the captions on.  This time, there was very little difficulty reading the captions, and the few times there was a problem I could just go back and re-watch.  I'm certainly quite happy to miss any incidental music, I assume there was a fair amount of that. 
    This was actually quite interesting.  I'm certainly glad "Ms. Grundy" is gone. I saw Jughead's father is in a gang (probably divorced from his mother), another big mistake.  Also Jellybean is too close to Jughead's age here.  Actually at this point in the comics, I don't think she was even born. 

Asking what the benefit of running your company out of business is a rhetorical question.  Doesn't mean that's not occurring due to incompetence or people placing stupid wishes or agendas above profit.  I mean look what happened to Yahoo.  The company is pretty much going out of business because of the actions of CEO Marissa Mayer.  Now if you asked her if she tried running the corporation out of business on purpose, she's going to say no, but her idiotic management style definitely lead to that conclusion  pretty much due to her tenure.



  I had in mind a quote John Lennon made about the Beatles sessions for the Let It Be LP (originally the LP  was supposed to be called "Get Back").  He said they made the worst music possible (paraphrase) so the band could break up.  I was reminded of that quote after seeing the Riverdale TV show.  Also, Archie Comics is clearly in financial trouble. 

I believe the change in the 1980s came about because there was concern among many people that Jughead was gay, and homosexuality was not widely accepted in the USA at that time. 

What's the benefit financially or creatively "destroying ACP"?  Wondering where your thoughts are on this point.



  The ideas that Archie Comics are "boring" and "one-dimensional" seem to be floating around the set of the Riverdale Show.  One of the basic premises of philosophy is that if you start with false premises, you usually get erroneous conclusions. 
[/size]    Archie Comics seem to be doing terribly financially at the moment.  I don't understand that.  Personally I think they are 10 times more interesting than all Superhero comics put together.   Clearly Archie Comics were extremely popular in 1970 (that must have been about the peak of their success.  They were certainly very successful throughout the 1946-1970.  What has caused the decline?  Bart Beaty claims bigotry accounts for this, but I strongly disagree.  I don't see any evidence that Archie Comics were more bigoted than their competitors. 
[/size]     If Archie Comics were to be discontinued it would certainly be the end of an era.  I would certainly be unhappy to see it go, but I would move on with my life.  My 2nd favorite comics, by a substantial margin, Calvin & Hobbes,  stopped being produced back in 1995.  I got over it. 
[/size]     Calvin & Hobbes should have continued.  If Watterson didn't want to continue writing, he should have let someone else do it, but I'm sure he never seriously considered that.  It would have been very interesting to see how Calvin would handle the technological advances since 1995.   
[/size]      I don't see how Archie writers could ever run out of ideas.  Stories just about new technology alone should keep them busy. 
[/size]       If the show is successful, I think Archie Comics continue.  If the show fails, things could get very ugly.

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Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on February 14, 2017, 10:37:59 AM
In the 30 months or so since I became interested in Archie Comics, I don't think I've seen any digests in any grocery story I've been in. I've seen them at Barnes & Noble, Walmart, and just recently, Target, but those are the only places. No local drugstore franchises or convenience stories.

I saw them at Wegman's (western NY) when I crossed the border last week;  Up here in Canada Shopper's drug mart has them, as does a grocery store called Sobey's.   Sometimes 7-11 and Walmart always has them.  I think that there will always be a call for Archie comics as they are the only all ages, family friendly comic that people (parents) have come to trust.

Funny you should mention that... Archie's formerly unassailable reputation as a purveyor of all-ages titles (eh... "Million Moms" aside)...  I wonder how things like the Archie Horror titles (which may well fly under most parents radar as imperceptible, with little chance most parents whose children are consumers of ACP's all-ages titles will ever become aware of them), and RIVERDALE might affect those parents' perception of ACP as a publisher.

The TV series is much more likely to impact public perception of ACP's comics, since television reaches a much wider audience than the direct-market floppy comics do, and if there isn't an immediate connection in parents minds between the name Riverdale and the names Archie, Jughead, Betty & Veronica, then plastering ads for the show all over the covers (and interiors) of the digests will certainly rectify that lack of recognition. Furthermore, placing those ads in the digests seems to imply that the TV show would be appropriate viewing for the same audiences reading those digests, so I wonder what some parents of say, an 8-12 year-old reader might think about that after viewing the show.

    It has occurred to me that perhaps Archie Comics is using the Riverdale TV show to destroy the comics (with help from the producers/writers of the program). I certainly hope I am wrong about that.  I've been a fan of Archie Comics since I was about 5 (I'm 34 now).  Parents shouldn't be allowing their 12 year old children to be watching Riverdale.  I know if I had seen it when I was 12, I probably would have stopped reading the comics at that point.

IMO, the UGAJ stories are all terrible and should be banished to the dustbin of history.  BTW, my use of the bold type was in the original stories. 

  I have been reading Archie's Giant Comics 75th Anniversary Book recently.  In this book, there are story called "Mind Over Madder" from 1952.  This story is very homophobic.  In the story Archie and Reggie are bashing Jughead for not liking girls.  Archie says at one point "I think any guy that doesn't like gals should run, not walk to a psychologist."  In another panel Archie says "If our ancestors were like you they would never have married our ancestorettes! Nobody would ever have been born!  Reggie later says "Can y'imagine that guy!?! Trying to wipe out the whole human race!"  It is quite shocking to hear Archie rip apart his best friend like that.  That dialogue doesn't sound spontaneous-it sounds like something that would have taken a lot of planning.  Also, the premise seems wrong.  It doesn't seem to me that Archie and Reggie were planning to impregnate their dates that evening, so how were they helping the propagation of the species?
    One could easily excuse the story's original publication as simply sharing the bigotry common at the time of it's written but the decision to reprint it (when other much better stories would have worked perfectly) is deplorable.