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Comic goes tragic: What jughead decided to make Archie a political tool?
Augusta Chronicle ^ | Sunday, July 20, 2014 | Joe Hotchkiss

Posted on 07/28/2014 5:11:10 PM PDT by real saxophonist

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To: Bratch
Not just "Archie". And not just gay.

A little off topic, but… Did you ever notice that transgender people look way hotter than liberal leftist women? Not that I'm attracted to either, I'd want my head bashed in if so.

21 posted on 07/28/2014 8:53:08 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: roadcat

That’s an exceedingly low bar, isn’t it?


22 posted on 07/28/2014 8:57:41 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: roadcat
Not that I'm attracted to either, I'd want my head bashed in if so.
Problem is, sometimes TG's are difficult to distinguish.



23 posted on 07/28/2014 10:07:37 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Bratch
Problem is, sometimes TG's are difficult to distinguish.

Perhaps a good reason to woo women in bikinis at the swimming pool.

24 posted on 07/28/2014 11:16:37 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Bratch
There's something I've been trying to tell you...

I'm screwed up in the HEAD!


25 posted on 07/29/2014 3:47:44 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: roadcat
Did you ever notice that transgender people look way hotter than liberal leftist women?

Who doesn't?

26 posted on 07/29/2014 3:48:38 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Bratch
Problem is, sometimes TG's are difficult to distinguish.

Not if the LOWER part of the picture is shown!



27 posted on 07/29/2014 3:55:40 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: real saxophonist

Liberal Democrats RUIN EVERYTHING they touch!!


28 posted on 07/29/2014 4:53:29 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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29 posted on 07/29/2014 5:10:11 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Bratch

“Too bad, haters” — read the text. Their problem is not hate, but indifference. It’s not edgy, it’s boring.


30 posted on 07/29/2014 6:05:43 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Sooth2222

Based on storylines, I have to assume there are no heterosexuals reading comics any more.

“Could a transgender Incredible Hulk be too far behind? “

More likely a homosexual Hulk, and the heterosexuals won’t like what he does when he gets mad.

Comics...now written and sold to the 2%, plus another 1% who live in their parents’ basement.


31 posted on 07/29/2014 6:31:07 AM PDT by Mr Rogers
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To: Sooth2222

If I read the numbers correctly....there’s only 15,000 people in America reading Archie on a monthly basis. Figure $2.75 a copy. So the company brings in $41,250 a month. Take out production and shipping ($30,000), and they sustain the publication off $11,250 a month. You can figure the whole staff to be no more than four individuals max.

All this hype....over a publication that barely reaches 15,000 people a year?

You probably have just as many folks reading Chubby Girls Digest, Hot Wheels Collectors Journal, and monthly publication of Amish Cooking Recipes.


32 posted on 07/29/2014 6:46:42 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Billthedrill

Free market has nothing to do with it. The Archie comic franchise has been sacraficed for “the cause.” Articles like this get a hundred times more exposure than the comic ever will. The author will be properly demonized and the soccer moms can return to watching Oaphrah.


33 posted on 07/29/2014 9:39:12 AM PDT by subterfuge (Hey NSA snoop, get a real job you idiot!)
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What. Happened. To Archie's sales in the '70s?!?!?!?!?

And can anyone explain why Mr. Andrews didn't have freckles on the various TV series beginning around 1968 (who else remembers US of Archie from the runup to the bicen, where forebears of the characters meet people like Thomas Paine, F.S. Key, Harriet Tubman, Thomas Edison, Teddy Roosevelt when he was a Dakota rancher, and the Wright brothers)?

ff

34 posted on 07/29/2014 6:20:22 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: Boogieman

I’m 30 and comics were popular when I’m growing up. You’re right, only comic book nerds read them now.


35 posted on 07/29/2014 6:26:53 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: pepsionice

I have never observed anyone ever buying an Archie comic, much less anyone claiming it as their favourite title. If someone told me that all this gay garbage has ruined Archie for them, it would be the same thing to me if someone thought the home jewelry shopping network is unwatchable because too many rubies are featured or something.

Freegards, the editor of Chubby Girls Who Collect Hot Wheels and Love Amish Cooking Monthly


36 posted on 07/29/2014 6:45:22 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: MinorityRepublican

I think it shows in the subject matter too. When they appealed to kids, they avoided controversial subjects because that could turn off the parents. Now, they only have a limited audience of adult collectors. So, they go for more and more controversial stories that might become seen as collectible.

Why else would any adult, probably male, buy an Archie book, unless they thought the “gay wedding” issue would be worth lots of money 30 years from now?


37 posted on 07/29/2014 7:47:01 PM PDT by Boogieman
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But the problem is that if there are 10,000 copies of the “gay” Archie issue in mint condition 30 years from now, it’ll not be worth all that much.


38 posted on 07/29/2014 9:29:23 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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