[Comics] The ultimate comic book icon is going to die.

ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

They're basically throwing everything at the wall, jumping sharks left and right, in order to make Archie relevant again.

None of it's working.
 
strawman

strawman

General Specific said:
Crisis of Infinite Archies up next?
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Actually, as I read the articles, it seems they actually have two ongoing series of future parallel universes, one where he marries one girl, the other where he marries the other girl. They explore how the decision changes his life in each case. Both are considered "future" explorations, while the main story continues ever onward - in other words even once he dies the regular story will continue simply because he will never age to the point where he actually gets married and then dies.

What's not clear to me is whether they will kill him in both series, or kill him in an ambiguous enough of a storyline where it will correctly cap each of the two series with the same ending. But then I'm just gleaning limited information from various sources, I could be misunderstanding things altogether.

At any rate, Archie has always been rather bland. Whenever I'd see one, I'd pick it up and flip through and I never laughed, nor was pulled into the story in a way that made me regret having to put it back on the shelf. I want to feel nostalgic about it for some reason, but I never really read it enough to justify that.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

stienman said:
Archie has always been rather bland.
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I'm sure the target audience was mainly those folks who were always about the Veronica/Archie/Betty triangle and the sitcom-style tension that generated, but the best ones for me were always the hijinks storylines. You know, the Connecticut Jughead in King Arthur's Court one, stuff like that. Those were always interesting to me, whereas the ones that stayed true to the whole, "Who should he choose?" were always ... meh.

--Patrick
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

I don't have much to add, other than this is creepy as balls

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Archie looks like a serial killer and Betty and Veronica look like they are being held hostage and have to keep him happy to avoid becoming his next victim.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Archie... I've always wondered how this company was still in business. Then I read the excellent Sonic and Mega Man comics they've been putting out for years. It also helps that you can actually still buy Archie comics at the grocery store.

You know what I think would do well? If Archie was a webcomic. Seriously. I think it would be really well.
 
Cajungal

Cajungal

Staff member
Man, forget Barbie and ladies' magazines... Archie comics made me think something was wrong with my body. When I started developing and didn't have pointy boobs and a 15 inch waist, I got full on panic attacks. "Now a horny, waffling redhead who's mediocre at everything he tries will never love me!"
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Yeah, I enjoy Menage-a-3 and Eerie Cuties, but I'm kind of done with reading 5 comics to get the full story. I only follow those two.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

I've enjoyed Ma3, I just wish she'd drop a project or two so it could update more often. Telling an ongoing story in 4 panels is ridiculously slow.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

"That's how we came up with the story line of saving Kevin. He could have saved Betty. He could have saved Veronica. We get that, but metaphorically, by saving Kevin, a new Riverdale is born."
...um...okay. Kinda...feels like a forced place to put a tolerance message if you ask me but hey whatever boats your float Archie comics.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Yoshimickster said:
"That's how we came up with the story line of saving Kevin. He could have saved Betty. He could have saved Veronica. We get that, but metaphorically, by saving Kevin, a new Riverdale is born."
...um...okay. Kinda...feels like a forced place to put a tolerance message if you ask me but hey whatever boats your float Archie comics.
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It's actually not. This actually a pretty natural evolution for Archie, who has always been pretty tolerant and always cared about his friends first. Besides, saving Betty or Veronica would have been the equivalent of Archie choosing one over the other an that's never going to happen.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

AshburnerX said:
It's actually not. This actually a pretty natural evolution for Archie, who has always been pretty tolerant and always cared about his friends first. Besides, saving Betty or Veronica would have been the equivalent of Archie choosing one over the other an that's never going to happen.
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I thought that they had two "adult" lines of Archie comics, one where he ended up with Bettie and another where he ended up with Veronica.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

They did I think, but they were AU releases like pretty much all the other non status quo stuff.

I mentioned this in the other comic thread, but if you get the chance the Afterlife With Archie is a pretty good read. It's zombies, but not your standard fare.
 
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