Archie Comics gets a major makeover.
12-20-06 | 10:35 AM
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I don't think that we're the best judges of who still reads Archie. I imagine there are mostly adults or teens on this forum and Archie is really not intended to be read by older kids or adults, which makes it unusual in a day when most comics have a majority adult audience. Some kids must still be reading it since I still see lots of issues and digests at my local book and grocery stores.
I'd definitely try to get my future kids into Archie. I really enjoyed the books as a kid. If this move keeps Archie around, that's all the better. By the way, the Archie/Punisher comic is a lot better than you might think.
I'd definitely try to get my future kids into Archie. I really enjoyed the books as a kid. If this move keeps Archie around, that's all the better. By the way, the Archie/Punisher comic is a lot better than you might think.
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12-20-06 | 06:27 PM
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If we're in a particularly painful grocery line, I'll occasionally pick up an Archie and read one of the short stories for a chuckle or two. It's something I know would be safe enough for my future kids.
12-24-06 | 12:02 AM
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Archie comics sell about 800,000 copies a month spread over 22 titles. They may not be powerplayers in the average comicbook shop...but they rule as impluse buys in grocery stores and newsstands.
12-24-06 | 02:04 AM
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where is that number from? i might believe that many copies are circulated across 22 titles across the world...but are they Archie comics...and are they sold copies, or circulated copies.
when i was a kid. archie put out the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics, and no doubt they outsold anything with Jughead on the cover...
when i was a kid. archie put out the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics, and no doubt they outsold anything with Jughead on the cover...
12-24-06 | 08:50 PM
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Came from Publisher's Weekly's web site...
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6323792.html
As for sold vs circulated copies...don't know. We don't even know that for mainstream Marvel/DC stuff. We get figures for how many copies retailer's purchase but we don't know how many of those are bought by customers. For instance SPIDER-MAN: REIGN has been touted as a sell-out from the supplier's. But my LCS has about a billion unsold copies on the self (as of Thurs, 8 days after release).
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6323792.html
As for sold vs circulated copies...don't know. We don't even know that for mainstream Marvel/DC stuff. We get figures for how many copies retailer's purchase but we don't know how many of those are bought by customers. For instance SPIDER-MAN: REIGN has been touted as a sell-out from the supplier's. But my LCS has about a billion unsold copies on the self (as of Thurs, 8 days after release).
01-03-07 | 11:39 AM
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Vanity Fair article on the Archie phenomenon (I didn't read the whole thing)
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/fe...2/archie200612
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/fe...2/archie200612
03-23-07 | 12:17 AM
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I guess now after Betty and Veronica eat at Pop Tate's Chok'lit Shoppe, they'll go into the bathroom to barf and shoot some heroin.
I have a bunch of Archie comics from the late 70s and early 80s, plus some digests from that same time, which are republications of stuff from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. I still enjoy reeading them from time to time.
I bought a few new digests last summer. It was horrible! Archie no longer owns the jalopy. He now drives a modern car. So I looked it up on the internet, and it turns out that his jalopy was destroyed in issue 238 of "Life With Archie" from 1983:
And Sabrina no longer looks like Sabrina. They changed her to look like Melissa Joan Hart. And then they changed her again to look like a Japanese manga character. The original Sabrina was way cooler than Betty or Veronica:
Big Ethel is no longer ugly, and she no longer devotes her life to chasing after Jughead. They eliminated everything that made her interesting.
Frank Doyle, the best writer who wrote 10,000 cartoons from the 50s through the 90s, died about a decade ago.
It seems that the current digests are afraid to print anything from the great classic years.
I think they need to start publishing an "Americana Digest." The Americana trade paperbacks sold pretty well. But $10 for 100 pages isn't a good deal. They should do a monthly digest that only has stuff from before Archie lost his jalopy.
I have a bunch of Archie comics from the late 70s and early 80s, plus some digests from that same time, which are republications of stuff from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. I still enjoy reeading them from time to time.
I bought a few new digests last summer. It was horrible! Archie no longer owns the jalopy. He now drives a modern car. So I looked it up on the internet, and it turns out that his jalopy was destroyed in issue 238 of "Life With Archie" from 1983:
And Sabrina no longer looks like Sabrina. They changed her to look like Melissa Joan Hart. And then they changed her again to look like a Japanese manga character. The original Sabrina was way cooler than Betty or Veronica:
Big Ethel is no longer ugly, and she no longer devotes her life to chasing after Jughead. They eliminated everything that made her interesting.
Frank Doyle, the best writer who wrote 10,000 cartoons from the 50s through the 90s, died about a decade ago.
It seems that the current digests are afraid to print anything from the great classic years.
I think they need to start publishing an "Americana Digest." The Americana trade paperbacks sold pretty well. But $10 for 100 pages isn't a good deal. They should do a monthly digest that only has stuff from before Archie lost his jalopy.
03-23-07 | 12:08 PM
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Originally Posted by grundle
Big Moose has been diagnosed with dyslexia, he no longer says "D'uh!" and he no longer beats up Reggie. They keep eliminating all the things that made the series interesting.
03-23-07 | 02:18 PM
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Comparing Archie to other foreign comics, I have to say he aged poorly compared to:
and
You can read issues of these from the 1970s and they are still as funny/relevant/entertaining as they are today, both for kids and adults.
and
You can read issues of these from the 1970s and they are still as funny/relevant/entertaining as they are today, both for kids and adults.
03-23-07 | 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by dx23
You are kidding, right?
This is from page 5 of the article that's linked to in post 34:
Riverdale's dumb jock, Moose Mason, no longer begins his every utterance with the word "Duh." He has also been diagnosed with dyslexia. Once terribly possessive of his girlfriend, Midge Clump, he also doesn't pound guys who give her the eye.
