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Archie Comics Is Ready to Introduce Its First Trans Character
Yahoo ^ | May 15, 2024 | James Whitbrook

Posted on 08/17/2024 7:14:07 PM PDT by Angelino97

The modern era of Archie Comics has seen the company rapidly diversify the world of Riverdale and beyond—not just in style and tone since the reboot of Archie in 2015, but in its view of its characters and their identities, from the introduction of queer characters to moves like revealing Jughead’s asexuality. Now, in the realm of its horror imprint, the publisher is ready to take a major step.

io9 can exclusively reveal that the next upcoming chapter in the story of Jinx Holliday—inspired by the old Archie character Li’l Jinx, and revived for Jinx: Grim Fairy Tales last year on the precipice of a series of solo adventure one-shots—Strange Science, will spotlight classic ‘80s Archie Dilton’s Strange Science character Danni Molloy, now Jinx’s best friend, and re-introduce her as a trans woman, in a major first for the company.

“I’ve been wanting to make this happen for a long time, and it’s really cool to see it finally come to fruition. I never wanted Danni’s trans identity to be gimmicky, or for her to feel like she was only created to be trans. So, I’d like to apologize for sneaking her over the line like this,” Jinx writer Magdalene Visaggio said in a statement provided to io9 over email. “I wanted you to have a chance to fall in love with her for who she is, not what she is. I’m honored I got to make it happen, and I’m grateful to Archie for never, not even once, pushing back on my insistence on making their books a little bit more queer. I hope Danni finds a good home at Archie with supportive writers and artists helping to keep her alive for years to come.”


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: archie; archiecomics; transgender; woke
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WTF?
1 posted on 08/17/2024 7:14:07 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

Just part of the way they perpetuate themselves and make more. Shocking abuse of children. Perverting their minds and destroying their souls.


2 posted on 08/17/2024 7:15:32 PM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: Angelino97

Even back in the 60’s I wondered why Archie comics existed.


3 posted on 08/17/2024 7:18:16 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Angelino97

Evil


4 posted on 08/17/2024 7:19:18 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: Angelino97

Comic books were always for weirdos.


5 posted on 08/17/2024 7:19:38 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Angelino97
They never stop attacking. I humbly beg people to finally understand. And tell everyone you know.

Trump is my offense. May God please continue to bless his servant.

6 posted on 08/17/2024 7:20:13 PM PDT by Kudsman (Stop the steal 24: Vote early)
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To: Angelino97

Mags Visaggio is an ugly dude named Brian. So you can imagine how he looks “as a woman.” I’ll spare you the photo.


7 posted on 08/17/2024 7:23:13 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: Angelino97

I always wondered, who was Archie for? I’d see it on the rack but never knew anyone who bought it. Seemed way lame compared to other comics. Was it for girls or what?

Freegards


8 posted on 08/17/2024 7:23:32 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I think its main audience was girls? Seemed like it to me; my friends sisters would read them while we read Superman, Batman, Spider Man, Sgt. Rock, etc. The 60’s were so long ago....


9 posted on 08/17/2024 7:24:56 PM PDT by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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To: Angelino97

lol I always thought Jughead was queer.


10 posted on 08/17/2024 7:28:14 PM PDT by patriot torch (2Tim Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel)
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To: Tijeras_Slim; Ransomed
I never bought comics.

But when I was a pre-teen in the late 1960s, the barber shop had Archie comics, so I read them there. I thought Betty was the pretty one. I didn't understand why Archie preferred Veronica.

I also didn't understand why Archie had checkerboards drawn on the side of his head. Or why Veronica and Reggie had blue streaks in their black hair.


11 posted on 08/17/2024 7:29:38 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Very.


12 posted on 08/17/2024 7:30:05 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Angelino97

If this is a joke, it’s a very sick unfunny joke at that.


13 posted on 08/17/2024 7:31:20 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: patriot torch

Struck me as pragmatic.


14 posted on 08/17/2024 7:32:57 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: HighSierra5

Well, some weirdos are better than other weirdos. Note, my screen name is a comic book character.


15 posted on 08/17/2024 7:33:08 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Angelino97

Archie had gotten a sales boost with the homo Kevin Kellner character. They are trying to repeat that success with a flurry of sales, then the novelty dies, and a segment of the readership does not come back.


16 posted on 08/17/2024 7:35:31 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Angelino97
Archie comics have always had a sexual overtone.

I never minded.

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17 posted on 08/17/2024 7:39:19 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (2 coups in less than 4 years. America is truly a first world Banana Republic.)
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To: Ransomed

My sisters resd them, but I read them too. The same kind of people who would have liked the TV show Happy Days, generally like the comic. Jughead was my favorite, but backin the day the artists actually tracked the fashions, and Betty, Veronica and Katy Keene were always kept up to date for the female readership. The characters were largely inspired by radio’s “The Aldrich Family”


18 posted on 08/17/2024 7:39:57 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Angelino97

The Left liked to take wholesome things and corrupt them. Like with Disney and Boy Scouts.


19 posted on 08/17/2024 7:43:48 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: Angelino97
I didn't understand why Archie preferred Veronica.

Archie wanted what he couldn’t easily have.

The blue streaks are highlights within the limitations of four color comic book presses. Superman had them too. The checkerboard isa cartoony embellishment like Mr Weatherbee’s hair or Jughead’s needle nose.
20 posted on 08/17/2024 7:44:14 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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