Hi everyone! I'm an 18 year old guy from Dallas, TX! I've visited this website several times over the years (I'm 18), but finally decided to make an account. I first stumbled upon Archie around 7 years ago when my mom brought a box filled with them home that she found by the side of the road, and I've been hooked ever since! Yesterday I just finished Riverdale Season 1, which I enjoyed but had some problems with (still going to see season 2 though!)
General info:
My favorite comics are the Frank Doyle/Harry Lucey ones hands down, but Samm Schwartz isn't far behind.
I do read the "New Riverdale" comics, but feel that the reason Archie is so good is because of the comedy. Thus I think that dramatic events such as Over the Edge would have more of an impact if the new Archie was more lighthearted, rather than mostly serious.
Enjoyed Riverdale but thought the killer was disappointing. Also - I really believe that an "Archie's Weird Mysteries" version of Riverdale could work super well if they play their cards right and slowly made the series supernatural. They could introduce Sabrina, and then have some Weird Mysteries throwback episodes if they wanted to, which I would love!
That's about all for me! Can't wait to add to some of these threads!
Oh, and Jughead is the best character of course!
Well, he's the best male character. Hands down. Not even close. I think I'd rate the Boldman/Lindsey version as #1, with a tie for 2nd place between Samm Schwartz and Fernando Ruiz. All three versions are slightly different characters. Dan Parent's version would rate higher probably, if he'd done more Jughead solo stories, but I haven't seen all that many crop up. I don't know what I'm going to do now that JUGHEAD & ARCHIE digest is cancelled. Probably have to start buying more back issues, if I can find them.
What kind of monster tosses a box of Archie Comics on the side of the road?
Hello, and welcome! :)
Welcome :)
WELCOME! 8)
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on July 23, 2017, 03:27:41 PM
Well, he's the best male character. Hands down. Not even close. I think I'd rate the Boldman/Lindsey version as #1, with a tie for 2nd place between Samm Schwartz and Fernando Ruiz. All three versions are slightly different characters. Dan Parent's version would rate higher probably, if he'd done more Jughead solo stories, but I haven't seen all that many crop up. I don't know what I'm going to do now that JUGHEAD & ARCHIE digest is cancelled. Probably have to start buying more back issues, if I can find them.
What kind of monster tosses a box of Archie Comics on the side of the road?
It's crazy, I know! There were like 20-30 digests in the box, and they decided to just throw them all away!
Quote from: chrisophical on July 25, 2017, 05:50:26 PM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on July 23, 2017, 03:27:41 PM
Well, he's the best male character. Hands down. Not even close. I think I'd rate the Boldman/Lindsey version as #1, with a tie for 2nd place between Samm Schwartz and Fernando Ruiz. All three versions are slightly different characters. Dan Parent's version would rate higher probably, if he'd done more Jughead solo stories, but I haven't seen all that many crop up. I don't know what I'm going to do now that JUGHEAD & ARCHIE digest is cancelled. Probably have to start buying more back issues, if I can find them.
What kind of monster tosses a box of Archie Comics on the side of the road?
It's crazy, I know! There were like 20-30 digests in the box, and they decided to just throw them all away!
I'm trying to visualize some sort of situation where they were bungee'd to some roof or trunk rack on a car (or maybe a motorcycle or scooter?), but even that seems pretty unlikely...
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on July 25, 2017, 06:48:06 PM
Quote from: chrisophical on July 25, 2017, 05:50:26 PM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on July 23, 2017, 03:27:41 PM
Well, he's the best male character. Hands down. Not even close. I think I'd rate the Boldman/Lindsey version as #1, with a tie for 2nd place between Samm Schwartz and Fernando Ruiz. All three versions are slightly different characters. Dan Parent's version would rate higher probably, if he'd done more Jughead solo stories, but I haven't seen all that many crop up. I don't know what I'm going to do now that JUGHEAD & ARCHIE digest is cancelled. Probably have to start buying more back issues, if I can find them.
What kind of monster tosses a box of Archie Comics on the side of the road?
It's crazy, I know! There were like 20-30 digests in the box, and they decided to just throw them all away!
I'm trying to visualize some sort of situation where they were bungee'd to some roof or trunk rack on a car (or maybe a motorcycle or scooter?), but even that seems pretty unlikely...
Yeah, my guess was that it was a "parents threw it out after the kids grew up" kind of situation, but who knows.
Hi , Are you the only person that reads Comics in your family? And does everyone in your family watch Riverdale? How do you keep your comics togther? And where do buy your comics?
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Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on July 25, 2017, 06:48:06 PM
Quote from: chrisophical on July 25, 2017, 05:50:26 PM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on July 23, 2017, 03:27:41 PM
Well, he's the best male character. Hands down. Not even close. I think I'd rate the Boldman/Lindsey version as #1, with a tie for 2nd place between Samm Schwartz and Fernando Ruiz. All three versions are slightly different characters. Dan Parent's version would rate higher probably, if he'd done more Jughead solo stories, but I haven't seen all that many crop up. I don't know what I'm going to do now that JUGHEAD & ARCHIE digest is cancelled. Probably have to start buying more back issues, if I can find them.
What kind of monster tosses a box of Archie Comics on the side of the road?
It's crazy, I know! There were like 20-30 digests in the box, and they decided to just throw them all away!
I'm trying to visualize some sort of situation where they were bungee'd to some roof or trunk rack on a car (or maybe a motorcycle or scooter?), but even that seems pretty unlikely...
Yeah, my guess was that it was a "parents threw it out after the kids grew up" kind of situation, but who knows.
I guess when you said "found by the side of the road" I was visualizing something like... by the side of the road out in the middle of nowhere. I guess if the road was in front of a house, and the curb is where you'd put out garbage for pickup, then the "parents threw them out" theory makes the most sense.
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Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on July 23, 2017, 03:27:41 PM
Well, he's the best male character. Hands down. Not even close. I think I'd rate the Boldman/Lindsey version as #1, with a tie for 2nd place between Samm Schwartz and Fernando Ruiz. All three versions are slightly different characters. Dan Parent's version would rate higher probably, if he'd done more Jughead solo stories, but I haven't seen all that many crop up. I don't know what I'm going to do now that JUGHEAD & ARCHIE digest is cancelled. Probably have to start buying more back issues, if I can find them.
What kind of monster tosses a box of Archie Comics on the side of the road?
It's crazy, I know! There were like 20-30 digests in the box, and they decided to just throw them all away!
I'm trying to visualize some sort of situation where they were bungee'd to some roof or trunk rack on a car (or maybe a motorcycle or scooter?), but even that seems pretty unlikely...
Yeah, my guess was that it was a "parents threw it out after the kids grew up" kind of situation, but who knows.
I guess when you said "found by the side of the road" I was visualizing something like... by the side of the road out in the middle of nowhere. I guess if the road was in front of a house, and the curb is where you'd put out garbage for pickup, then the "parents threw them out" theory makes the most sense.
Yeah it wasn't as strange as finding them abandoned in a field or something... Now that would be really weird!
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Quote from: chrisophical on July 30, 2017, 11:22:35 AM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on July 27, 2017, 04:26:17 AM
Quote from: chrisophical on July 25, 2017, 07:08:57 PM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on July 25, 2017, 06:48:06 PM
Quote from: chrisophical on July 25, 2017, 05:50:26 PM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on July 23, 2017, 03:27:41 PM
Well, he's the best male character. Hands down. Not even close. I think I'd rate the Boldman/Lindsey version as #1, with a tie for 2nd place between Samm Schwartz and Fernando Ruiz. All three versions are slightly different characters. Dan Parent's version would rate higher probably, if he'd done more Jughead solo stories, but I haven't seen all that many crop up. I don't know what I'm going to do now that JUGHEAD & ARCHIE digest is cancelled. Probably have to start buying more back issues, if I can find them.
What kind of monster tosses a box of Archie Comics on the side of the road?
It's crazy, I know! There were like 20-30 digests in the box, and they decided to just throw them all away!
I'm trying to visualize some sort of situation where they were bungee'd to some roof or trunk rack on a car (or maybe a motorcycle or scooter?), but even that seems pretty unlikely...
Yeah, my guess was that it was a "parents threw it out after the kids grew up" kind of situation, but who knows.
I guess when you said "found by the side of the road" I was visualizing something like... by the side of the road out in the middle of nowhere. I guess if the road was in front of a house, and the curb is where you'd put out garbage for pickup, then the "parents threw them out" theory makes the most sense.
Yeah it wasn't as strange as finding them abandoned in a field or something... Now that would be really weird!
Well, Texas is really big. So in my imagination, at least, that includes a lot of miles of roads that don't run past the front lawns of houses, where boxes could fall off the back of pickup trucks or something like that.
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Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on July 25, 2017, 06:48:06 PM
Quote from: chrisophical on July 25, 2017, 05:50:26 PM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on July 23, 2017, 03:27:41 PM
Well, he's the best male character. Hands down. Not even close. I think I'd rate the Boldman/Lindsey version as #1, with a tie for 2nd place between Samm Schwartz and Fernando Ruiz. All three versions are slightly different characters. Dan Parent's version would rate higher probably, if he'd done more Jughead solo stories, but I haven't seen all that many crop up. I don't know what I'm going to do now that JUGHEAD & ARCHIE digest is cancelled. Probably have to start buying more back issues, if I can find them.
What kind of monster tosses a box of Archie Comics on the side of the road?
It's crazy, I know! There were like 20-30 digests in the box, and they decided to just throw them all away!
I'm trying to visualize some sort of situation where they were bungee'd to some roof or trunk rack on a car (or maybe a motorcycle or scooter?), but even that seems pretty unlikely...
Yeah, my guess was that it was a "parents threw it out after the kids grew up" kind of situation, but who knows.
I guess when you said "found by the side of the road" I was visualizing something like... by the side of the road out in the middle of nowhere. I guess if the road was in front of a house, and the curb is where you'd put out garbage for pickup, then the "parents threw them out" theory makes the most sense.
Yeah it wasn't as strange as finding them abandoned in a field or something... Now that would be really weird!
Well, Texas is really big. So in my imagination, at least, that includes a lot of miles of roads that don't run past the front lawns of houses, where boxes could fall off the back of pickup trucks or something like that.
That's true, just not in the city like Dallas
Quote from: chrisophical on July 30, 2017, 08:13:35 PM
That's true, just not in the city like Dallas
Point taken. I've never been to Dallas, and so I don't have much of a mental image of that city, particularly what a typical residential area looks like. Just what I tend to see on TV shows, which is like a helicopter flyover of the downtown area.
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on July 31, 2017, 12:21:48 AM
Quote from: chrisophical on July 30, 2017, 08:13:35 PM
That's true, just not in the city like Dallas
Point taken. I've never been to Dallas, and so I don't have much of a mental image of that city, particularly what a typical residential area looks like. Just what I tend to see on TV shows, which is like a helicopter flyover of the downtown area.
Haha yeah it's a fairly boring city, so by not visiting you're not missing out on much
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Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on July 31, 2017, 12:21:48 AM
Quote from: chrisophical on July 30, 2017, 08:13:35 PM
That's true, just not in the city like Dallas
Point taken. I've never been to Dallas, and so I don't have much of a mental image of that city, particularly what a typical residential area looks like. Just what I tend to see on TV shows, which is like a helicopter flyover of the downtown area.
Haha yeah it's a fairly boring city, so by not visiting you're not missing out on much
I'm from Houston. I like Dallas. I've lived all over. All cities are boring. Trust me. The novelty wears off of everything. It's not where you are, it's who you're with. You gotta find the cool people wherever you are and you won't be bored.
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Quote from: chrisophical on July 30, 2017, 08:13:35 PM
That's true, just not in the city like Dallas
Point taken. I've never been to Dallas, and so I don't have much of a mental image of that city, particularly what a typical residential area looks like. Just what I tend to see on TV shows, which is like a helicopter flyover of the downtown area.
Haha yeah it's a fairly boring city, so by not visiting you're not missing out on much
I'm from Houston. I like Dallas. I've lived all over. All cities are boring. Trust me. The novelty wears off of everything. It's not where you are, it's who you're with. You gotta find the cool people wherever you are and you won't be bored.
Good point. It's the same thing when visiting cities for vacation... You always see all the cool stuff rather than realizing it isn't always cool when living there
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"Veronica in Texas" was just reprinted last month in one of the B&V digests. I enjoyed it, but didn't learn a thing about Texas. Neither did Veronica, since she spent most of the story with concussion-induced amnesia laboring under the delusion that she was "Dusty Marlowe, Rodeo Star" (from a novel she'd been reading on the plane just before she hit her head due to unexpected turbulence). As "Dusty", she dyed her hair red, which made her look amazingly like Cheryl Blossom (admittedly not much of a concern for readers in 1991, when the story was first published in VERONICA #17). I kinda miss Lady Smitty.
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on August 01, 2017, 06:02:35 PM
"Veronica in Texas" was just reprinted last month in one of the B&V digests. I enjoyed it, but didn't learn a thing about Texas. Neither did Veronica, since she spent most of the story with concussion-induced amnesia laboring under the delusion that she was "Dusty Marlowe, Rodeo Star" (from a novel she'd been reading on the plane just before she hit her head due to unexpected turbulence). As "Dusty", she dyed her hair red, which made her look amazingly like Cheryl Blossom (admittedly not much of a concern for readers in 1991, when the story was first published in VERONICA #17). I kinda miss Lady Smitty.
Maybe they got feedback after Veronica in Australia and Veronica in Africa where they bang you over the head with factoids about those places.
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Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on August 01, 2017, 06:02:35 PM
"Veronica in Texas" was just reprinted last month in one of the B&V digests. I enjoyed it, but didn't learn a thing about Texas. Neither did Veronica, since she spent most of the story with concussion-induced amnesia laboring under the delusion that she was "Dusty Marlowe, Rodeo Star" (from a novel she'd been reading on the plane just before she hit her head due to unexpected turbulence). As "Dusty", she dyed her hair red, which made her look amazingly like Cheryl Blossom (admittedly not much of a concern for readers in 1991, when the story was first published in VERONICA #17). I kinda miss Lady Smitty.
Maybe they got feedback after Veronica in Australia and Veronica in Africa where they bang you over the head with factoids about those places.
All of the Veronica travel stories were like that, as far as I can remember. This one contained a couple of insignificant statistics about Dallas and Houston, but they didn't really register because they were just mentioned in passing, and had no bearing on the plot. The only factoid that had any real bearing on the story was the actual purpose of rodeo clowns (to distract the bull when the rider is thrown and in danger of being trampled).
I guess the "Around the World with Veronica" stories were losing steam with readers by that time, and the following issue's "Veronica in the Bahamas" (#18) turned out to be the last. I'd still like to see them all collected in one big trade paperback.
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on August 01, 2017, 06:02:35 PM
"Veronica in Texas" was just reprinted last month in one of the B&V digests. I enjoyed it, but didn't learn a thing about Texas. Neither did Veronica, since she spent most of the story with concussion-induced amnesia laboring under the delusion that she was "Dusty Marlowe, Rodeo Star" (from a novel she'd been reading on the plane just before she hit her head due to unexpected turbulence). As "Dusty", she dyed her hair red, which made her look amazingly like Cheryl Blossom (admittedly not much of a concern for readers in 1991, when the story was first published in VERONICA #17). I kinda miss Lady Smitty.
Oh, I need to get a hold of this!
Quote from: Vegan Jughead on August 04, 2017, 06:50:08 AM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on August 01, 2017, 06:02:35 PM
"Veronica in Texas" was just reprinted last month in one of the B&V digests. I enjoyed it, but didn't learn a thing about Texas. Neither did Veronica, since she spent most of the story with concussion-induced amnesia laboring under the delusion that she was "Dusty Marlowe, Rodeo Star" (from a novel she'd been reading on the plane just before she hit her head due to unexpected turbulence). As "Dusty", she dyed her hair red, which made her look amazingly like Cheryl Blossom (admittedly not much of a concern for readers in 1991, when the story was first published in VERONICA #17). I kinda miss Lady Smitty.
Oh, I need to get a hold of this!
It's in Betty & Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #255.
Which, by the way, doesn't look like this issue that was solicited a few months ago...
(https://static1.comicvine.com/uploads/original/0/40/5761709-b%26vddigest%23255.jpg)
Instead it looks like this:
(https://previewsworld.com/SiteImage/CatalogImage/STL045257?type=1)
It officially went on sale July 26th, but I think my subscription copy arrived almost a week early. This is another one of those "switcharoo solicits" that hardly ever gets mentioned, but in the last couple of months there were a spate of them (I think the revised cover art originally appeared on a solicitation for Archie's Funhouse digest, which seems to have skipped an issue, or maybe I'm thinking of the previous B&V Friends Jumbo Comics Digest #254), culminating in the announcement that Jughead & Archie Double Digest was being cancelled and replaced by Archie & Me Comics Digest. It should still be on sale at Barnes & Noble and Wal-Mart brick & mortars, as well as wherever digital comics are sold.
At any rate, various digest shipping dates as solicited got changed, as well as the contents, page count, and cover art... so things appear to be in a volatile state in digestland. The last time it happened on that scale was a few months before both Archie's Funhouse and Jughead & Archie got cut back from 10 times a year to only six times a year.
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on August 04, 2017, 09:27:56 AM
Quote from: Vegan Jughead on August 04, 2017, 06:50:08 AM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on August 01, 2017, 06:02:35 PM
"Veronica in Texas" was just reprinted last month in one of the B&V digests. I enjoyed it, but didn't learn a thing about Texas. Neither did Veronica, since she spent most of the story with concussion-induced amnesia laboring under the delusion that she was "Dusty Marlowe, Rodeo Star" (from a novel she'd been reading on the plane just before she hit her head due to unexpected turbulence). As "Dusty", she dyed her hair red, which made her look amazingly like Cheryl Blossom (admittedly not much of a concern for readers in 1991, when the story was first published in VERONICA #17). I kinda miss Lady Smitty.
Oh, I need to get a hold of this!
It's in Betty & Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #255.
Which, by the way, doesn't look like this issue that was solicited a few months ago...
(https://static1.comicvine.com/uploads/original/0/40/5761709-b%26vddigest%23255.jpg)
Instead it looks like this:
(https://previewsworld.com/SiteImage/CatalogImage/STL045257?type=1)
It officially went on sale July 26th, but I think my subscription copy arrived almost a week early. This is another one of those "switcharoo solicits" that hardly ever gets mentioned, but in the last couple of months there were a spate of them (I think the revised cover art originally appeared on a solicitation for Archie's Funhouse digest, which seems to have skipped an issue, or maybe I'm thinking of the previous B&V Friends Jumbo Comics Digest #254), culminating in the announcement that Jughead & Archie Double Digest was being cancelled and replaced by Archie & Me Comics Digest. It should still be on sale at Barnes & Noble and Wal-Mart brick & mortars, as well as wherever digital comics are sold.
At any rate, various digest shipping dates as solicited got changed, as well as the contents, page count, and cover art... so things appear to be in a volatile state in digestland. The last time it happened on that scale was a few months before both Archie's Funhouse and Jughead & Archie got cut back from 10 times a year to only six times a year.
Thanks! I have a subscription to that digest and I actually started reading that issue last night so I'll see that story soon.
Just got this from Barnes and Noble, last week ... starting to read