The Jay and Silent Bob one-shot appears to be the biggest thing coming in July. A couple of new stories involving Sabrina, but more digests that are nothing but reprints. I really miss the days of floppies where you'd get two or three new stories per issue.

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KEVIN SMITH PRESENTS... ARCHIE MEETS JAY AND SILENT BOB (ONE-SHOT)
SNOOCHIE BOOCHIES, ARCHIE FANS!! Yes, you read that right—acclaimed writer, director, actor, producer, and podcaster Kevin Smith takes the teens you know and love from Riverdale on the wildest ride of their lives. What's supposed to be a summer job at Quick Stop for Archie Andrews turns into so much more; from a budding friendship with co-worker Randal Graves, crashing a Pussycats concert, a potential new love interest, Jay and Silent Bob being, well, Jay and Silent Bob, and a musical number that will be burned into your brain forever. Plus, could Jay and Silent Bob even help Archie to finally choose between Betty and Veronica? SNOOGANS!! Featuring legendary Archie artists Fernando Ruiz and inker Rich Koslowksi, this is a DOUBLE-SIZED, CAN'T-MISS event FOR MATURE AUDIENCES unlike anything we've ever done before!
SCRIPT: Kevin Smith
PENCILS: Fernando Ruiz
INKS: Rich Koslowski
COLORS: Matt Herms
LETTERS: Jack Morelli
MAIN COVER: Fernando Ruiz w/ Rich Koslowski & Rosario "Tito" Peña
OPEN-TO-ORDER VARIANT COVERS: Fernando Ruiz w/ Rich Koslowski & Rosario "Tito" Peña (Grayscale), Francesco Francavilla, Phil Hester, Dan Parent, Ty Templeton
OPEN-TO-ORDER FOIL VARIANT COVERS: Fernando Ruiz w/ Rich Koslowski & Rosario "Tito" Peña, Francesco Francavilla
RETAILER INCENTIVE COVERS: Dan Panosian (1-in-10), Michael Allred (1-in-25)
FOIL VARIANT RETAILER INCENTIVE COVERS: Dan Panosian (1-in-10), Michael Allred (1-in-25)
ON-SALE DATE: 7/9
48-page, full-color comic
$7.99 U.S. (Regular Covers)
$11.99 U.S. (Foil Variants)

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ARCHIE JUMBO COMICS DIGEST #362
BRAND NEW STORY! Sabrina and the gang are going back to the beach... and back to the 1980s! But when messing with time causes Betty to go missing, Sabrina's going to have to figure out how to set things right...
Script : Dan Parent
Pencils: Dan Parent
Inks: Bob Smith
Colors: Gillian Swearingen
Letters: Jack Morelli
Cover: Dan Parent, Bob Smith, Rosario "Tito" Peña
On Sale Date: 7/2
192-page, full color digest-
$9.99 U.S.

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ARCHIE MILESTONES JUMBO COMICS DIGEST #30: JUGHEAD SUMMER VACATION
Summer time means pool parties, vacations, and water parks—unless you're Jughead Jones, then it's all about ice cold lemonades, barbeques, beach picnics, and hot dog eating contests!
Script : Dan Parent, George Gladir,
Art: Dan Parent, Dan DeCarlo
Cover: Bill Galvan, Ben Galvan, Rosario "Tito" Peña
On Sale Date: 7/23
192-page, full color digest
$9.99 U.S.

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BETTY & VERONICA JUMBO COMICS DIGEST #336
'Tis the season for beach bashes, sunny seaside adventures, and the best swimsuit fashions you'll ever see—all thanks to Betty and Veronica!
Script: Dan Parent, George Gladir
Art: Dan Parent, Dan DeCarlo, Holly G!
Cover: Dan Parent, Rosario "Tito" Peña
On Sale Date: 7/9
192-page, full color digest
$9.99 U.S.

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WORLD OF ARCHIE JUMBO COMICS DIGEST #152
BRAND NEW STORY! Sabrina's meddling with time gets more hectic thanks to Amber Nightstone, who's summoned a legendary SEA WITCH! But find out what happens when Sabrina and the Sea Witch realize they might actually have a lot in common in this Wickedly fun story!
Script: Dan Parent
Pencils: Dan Parent
Inks: Bob Smith
Colors: Glenn Whitmore
Letters: Jack Morelli
Cover: Dan Parent, Rosario "Tito" Peña
On Sale Date: 7/16
192-page, full color digest
$9.99 U.S.

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WORLD OF BETTY & VERONICA JUMBO COMICS DIGEST #40
It's always fun in the sun with Betty and Veronica—but things get even more exciting when they bring some friends along for summertime fun!
Script: Dan Parent, George Gladir
Art: Dan Parent, Dan DeCarlo, Pat Kennedy
Cover: Dan Parent, Rosario "Tito" Peña
On Sale Date: 7/30
192-page, full color digest
$9.99 U.S.

I review "Fool's Gold!!" from Betty and Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #333.

As you doubtlessly have noticed by now, there is nothing that Betty & Veronica can't do! But now, the girls face their biggest challenge yet: Keeping the world safe from new villain MEDUSA DOOM! The daughter of classic Archie villain MAD DOCTOR DOOM (who appears here, along with the return of his teen sidekick CHESTER), Medusa is set to cause plenty of problems for Agents B&V. Are our heroes up to the challenge? Does Pop have the best shakes in Riverdale?
Here's a sneak peak of the some of the fun that awaits in you Betty & Veronica: Friends Forever: Spy Girls:








Now packed with 30 PAGES of story content, including a BRAND NEW STORY! INTRODUCING: MEDUSA DOOM, MAD DR. DOOM'S teenage daughter! Medusa Doom has come from far away to bully the residents of Riverdale and only Agents B and V have what it takes to stop her!

Script: Tania Del Rio
Art: Holly G!, Jim Amash, Glenn Whitmore, Jack Morelli

There's some incredible variant covers for this issue!

STADIUM COMICS BETTY POP ART VARIANT COVER BY NUNO PEREIRA

Betty & Veronica: Friends Forever: Spy Girls hits stores everywhere on May 14th!

Did some playing with the test yesterday and found that it's pretty easy to do some of what I want. Dynamic lists are simple and can be manipulated easily as well. It should be pretty easy to do. I'll have to look more into it this week as I have time.

Got a test installation set up to play with the "alternative" I described above and I'm thinking it might be better to go that route instead. It's simpler and allows a lot more flexibility - I can create templates quickly, then create forms to allow people to create articles using those templates.

I need to spend more time playing with it though to figure out a few things:
1. How I allow people to specify a file in the form (you'd need to upload the image first, which is fairly straightforward)
2. Allow wiki text in the form instead of just "Free text".
3. Dynamic lists/categories:
- Creating an issue page should automatically add that to a category of "Issues published in <year>" and "Issues with cover art by <artist>"
- What code can be added to a story page that will display a list of all issues it appears in

I'd still need to add some additional templates for bands (The Archies, Josie and the Pussycats, maybe The Veronicas), albums/singles, the various TV shows, etc. but that shouldn't be too difficult to do and I can take inspiration from Wikipedia for that.

Almost done copying the main templates we'll need from Wikipedia, though I do want to play with an alternative setup as well that would allow me to do a bit more and not rely on all the Wikipedia stuff as much. I didn't discover this until well after I'd started copying templates from Wikipedia, but it might work better. The biggest issue is I'm terrible with web design so while setting up the templates wouldn't be hard, making them look nice might be.

I also need to write up some basic policies, at least as far as copyright goes. We can't avoid using copyrighted images of characters, covers, etc. but for actual real people we need to be careful to use freely licensed images to avoid getting in trouble (although some companies don't bother going after small sites, better safe than sorry).

The eventual goal here is to document everything related to Archie Comics - comics, TV shows, movies, music, creators, etc.

Still working on adding templates that we'll be using, but I'm almost done with that. The big one at this point is called "Infobox person", and is the one Wikipedia uses for all sorts of people - politicians, notable criminals, military folks, etc. As such, it has a ridiculous number of fields, many of which we won't have any use for. I'm going to trim it down to the things I think we'll actually use. I'm hoping to get to that within the next week or so.

Here's what's on my to-do list right now:
Finish copying (and, as necessary, modifying) templates from Wikipedia
Get a logo made
Install the add-on that will let you link your forum account with the wiki

Alright. Ruiz art!

Interesting, I did not know that Archie was publishing facsimile editions! I'll pre-order them. Thank you for sharing.

I love the idea of an Archiepedia. While I don't think I have enough knowledge to contribute to it, I will definitely spend some time using it.