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.
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)?
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