Posted on 04/08/2014 8:37:01 AM PDT by MissTed
Since 1941, comic book fans have followed the exploits of teenaged Archie Andrews and his friends. This July, they'll find out how he dies.
"Life With Archie" #36 hits stores on July 16, and CNN can reveal exclusively that it tells the story of how Archie sacrifices himself to save a friend.
Few details are known, but it seems fitting that Archie would go out a hero. The 37th issue one week later will end the series.
The "Life With Archie" series has been telling the stories of possible future Archie scenarios for the past few years, and so Archie will continue to be alive in the comics set in the present day. 14 comics that caused controversy 14 comics that caused controversy
CNN spoke with Archie Comics CEO Jon Goldwater (son of Archie creator John Goldwater) about the upcoming issues.
CNN: Can you explain the "Life With Archie" series for the uninitiated?
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As a comic fan, I consider the real art of the genre to lie in graphic novels not in cookie cutter serials like Archie. Not all graphic novels suck, some are really well done pieces of fiction such as, Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns or Walking Dead. Yes, there are comic fans who are really weird, but some of us just want to read good fiction and appreciate the medium. JMO
Actually, X-Men had it's roots in the 60s civil rights movement. Magneto was even patterned after Malcolm X. It's Bryan Singer the director of Fox's X-Men movies, who is trying to change the message.
I should have also added that present day Marvel and X-Men definitely does push the left’s agenda, as do many comics today. So your argument isn’t without merit.
That is partly true but I remember the gay references/discussions long before he came on the scene. Stan Lee IIRC even said at one point they were an amalgimation/representation of ‘outsiders’ and people being ‘oppressed’ for ‘who they were’. To be sure, he was also talking about blacks, but the gay thing has long been there.
Archie shares characteristics with Mickey Rooney, Wonder if that was an inspiration?
In fact, that song is up there with "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro, and "Loving You" by Minne Riperton..
Betty & Veronica were identical cartoons, differing only in hair color. Social status & attitude were character overlays.
MAD Magazine’s “Starchie!” got the strip’s number back in 1956. `Biddy & Salonica’ were two acne-ravaged druggies while Starchie, Bottleneck, & Wedgie van Smelt were juvenile delinquents dealing in petty crime.
It’s a comic strip, come on folks!
The 2014 version where Betty and Veronica are white wannabes dating pimps/rappers/ Kanye types while Archie is an Obamacare navigator, Jughead is a felonious meth head and Reggie is aide to Harry Reid. Oh, and Moose is crooked prison guard..
Good to know, I hate overly politicized BS and comics have recently been falling into that category more and more.
Gays/Liberals destroy everything they touch. Including their defenders. It truly sucks that they wrecked comics like everything fun and enjoyable. But general liberalism holds the majority of the blame.
Remember Kruschev: “We won’’t get you but we will get your children”.
He did.
Nothing more than an ancient promo ploy. Comic book heros have been advertised to die in the future since time memorium in order to create buzz around the next issue and hopefully promote sales. The heros never die, at least not for long.
The comic book version of Mary Ann or Ginger.
Is he dying from AIDS?
Kurtzman and Elder revisted Archie in a Goodman Beaver story in Help (and reprinted in the Executive Comic Book paperback in the 60s).
Archie Comics won the artwork and publishing in a lawsuit. And it all still rings true.
There was no "Archies". Just studio musicans backed by a hit machine (much like Mowtown or Lieber & Stoller, except those song pluggers at least found persons to go on the road and perform).
That’s some heavy satire! By the masters themselves, Kurtzman & Elder. I was digging Little Annie Fannie at the time.
The “Starchie” lampoon was mild by comparison. The teens are smoking cigarettes and only mention alcohol. Their weapons are rubber band guns with a linoleum square, except for the Mercury sports coupe with the .50 cal pointed rearward. And Starchie ends up in the jug for life (presumably for the death of Wedgie). Even in a lampoon, crime does not pay.
The only violence in the real Archie comics came from the ever jealous Moose. Wonder how life was like later on for Moose & Midge?
That was from Goodman Goes PL*B*Y (the title). They have entered college and succumb to the vices of life (and disposable women). In the end, the Devil reveals himself (as Hugh Hefner) and all of the other cartoon characters sign up (with their souls) for the “good life”.
This predated Annie Fanny (not by much) and apparently Hefner didn’t hold a grudge.
Those were done by another company, Spire Christian Comics. It was founded by one of the artists who worked for Archie Comics, and he had the license to use the characters for that purpose while Spire was in business.
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