Writing for the Colorado Springs Gazette, Bill Radford looks at the negative feedback over Betty and Veronica’s recent makeover:
You don’t tug on Superman’s cape, you don’t spit into the wind — and apparently you don’t mess with Archie Andrews and the gang.
In December, Archie Comics announced that a new “dynamic art style” was coming for its classic characters.
Fans were not pleased, managing editor Victor Gorelick says. “Most of the readers were `How can you give them this new look?’” Gorelick said. “‘I’ve read Archie all my life and now you’re changing him.’
Personally, I don’t really see any reason not to change the characters’ looks. My five-year-old daughter, however, has already expressed her disapproval about the makeover to me.
An added bonus: Archie comic or indie film? You decide!
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April 16th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
“Personally, I don’t really see any reason not to change the characters’ looks. My five-year-old daughter, however, has already expressed her disapproval about the makeover to me.”
Just pointing out, the second sentence completely contradicts the first, since that’s reason enough for them not to be doing this. Unless, you know, they want to go all the way in that direction, and do Ultimate Civil War Archie.
April 16th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Yeah, the contradiction was intentional.
I kind of would like to see Civil War Archie actually.
April 17th, 2007 at 6:57 am
People, especially comic book fans, hate change. I just never realized how far it could actually extend outside of the super hero comics world.
April 17th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Drew – Which goes to show how foolish many of Warren Ellis’ old rants really were, in my opinion. The man seemed convinved that it was the closed-minded “fanboys” who were holding so many of the characters and concepts of comic books back from appealing to the mainstream audience, but in point of fact, the mainstream audience as a whole has always been vastly more conservative and afraid of change than even the most fundamentalist Hal Jordan fanboy.