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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Psychatrist after family evaluation: Mr. and Mrs. Smith, you are doing fine. Your kids, however, are very disturbed. I suggest you give them comics dating no later than the 1990s.
Same here but the girls were drawn cute. Never bought any. I think some of my childhood friends had some though.
May Archie comics just dry up & blow away. We don’t need crap like this masquerading as a “comic”.
Ronnie? Do you mean Reggie?
Other than the hair colors, I think they are the same girl!
So the question should be: “blonde or blue black hair?”
He loves smoking pot with Scooby.
One evening in the 1970s, Al Hartley, the author of the Archie comic at the time, came to my church and spoke about using the comic to promote Christianity. I’m assuming he isn’t around anymore.
And BTW, wasn’t Archie killed in the crossfire a few years ago, when the comic had him saving the life of a homosexual character?
I thought the comic had been discontinued altogether.
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