Comments on: LIFE WITH ARCHIE Is The Weirdest Comic To Come Along In Years

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Netbooks Under 200 — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:28:03 +0000

I agree, it is not that bad and is still some hope for Archie.
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By: Malika

Malika — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:18:31 +0000

You have some good points regarding the Archie Magazine. It was pretty weird seeing all those teen pop stars on the cover. I love the magazine though as well as the stories. I’m an avid collector, I usually go for the B&V comics though, but I’m glad that I’m seeing a lot of new changes to the comics. I’ll be buying these comics forever.

By: Vinnie Bartilucci

Vinnie Bartilucci — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:22:48 +0000

It seems to me that they’re experimenting with a more “adult” plotline here, bringing more mature concepts into the story. Far as I know, the regular titles are still about more traditional Archiesque stories. Even the Jersey Shore and Kevin Keller issues seem more like modernizing than an actual attempt to grow up the general tone of the book.

Doing this in a magazine format sort of helps delineate the change as well, to a degree. We’ll see if there’s a lot of people who want to read more soap-opera style plots, as opposed to Dobie Gillis style.

The Live-Action Archie show lost me as soon as Jughead started rapping “Sugar Sugar”. Big Ethel growing up to be a hottie was a cute idea, but ultimately the whole thing played like too many remake and reunion shows. It felt like it was written by people who had never actually seen the original, or at least never enjoyed it, and as such could only guess at what made it entertaining.

By: Piledriver

Piledriver — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:41:44 +0000

For three quarters of a century Riverdale has managed to stay in the world of Saturday Evening Post Americana, with all the counter-culture elements of pop culture getting their mention but never settling in to stay (my guess would be that all those folks that passed through found Riverdale downright creepy, and moved along at the briskest possible pace). This was good. The illusion that Archie’s world represents has always been a particular kind of ideal.

So the heavy use of gimmicks lately to get Archie into the news feels threatening to all us old fans. Like the citizens of Riverdale who are always just out of frame, comfortably enjoying the fact that the troubles of the outside world don’t apply here… we don’t like people messing with our good thing.

By: margethe

margethe — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 07:51:28 +0000

personally, i don’t buy the archie comics with the new way of drawing. and i’ve read the two alternate possibilities and i think to myself: it is ok if i get to be older than the archies rather than them getting older than high school.

By: D

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:21:53 +0000

@ The Truth Speaker:
I think you must have missed the fact that Archie marries Betty in one possible future, and marries Veronica in another one. There’s no polygamy here at all, just an exploration of how the decisions a person makes can shape their future for better or worse, and often both. What’s so deplorable or offensive about that? Seems a fairly moral “message” (if there is one) to me. Thought-provoking, to say the least, and I think a lot of us (young readers included) could stand to have some thoughts provoked a little more often.

By: The Truth Speaker

The Truth Speaker — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:10:11 +0000

This is absolutely deplorable. They should just call this ARCHIE’S POLYGAMY COMICS, since that’s basically the message they’re sending out. Really, the “new” Archie is shaping up to be quite an offensive disaster and is very much in danger of losing its long-time core audience of readers who appreciate the more restrained, positive, all-ages material Archie has traditionally published. If they keep going in all the wrong directions they’ve been going in lately, Archie will very soon alienate and lose their general-audience customers in the same way Marvel and DC alienated and lost theirs in the 1980s.

By: Fernando

Fernando — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:00:34 +0000

Great article. Nice to see the Archie comics get their props now and then.