Archie
Getting through the pandemic one Archie comic at a time
Jillian Horton: Every night at bedtime my son and I read Archie. Amid the brutal COVID disruptions, I feel viscerally what he is drawn to: the containment of it all.
Why Archie comics always mattered
Even before today’s reboot, Archie comics could be great. Here are some of its greatest arcs according to Jaime Weinman
With an EDM ban, Toronto gets ‘Footloose’
Six Ways to Sunday: On a moralizing ban on a music that councillors didn’t care for, plus how we should feel about the death of Archie
Archie: The Canadian Movie
This might not be a sure-fire hit film, but it would sure be better than To Riverdale and Back Again. And as Toplessrobot.com pointed out, this fan-made fake movie trailer could just as easily be a pilot for a show on the CW.
Newsmakers ’09: Mergers
The year’s biggest mergers
They’re furious he chose Veronica
Even people who didn’t realize they were still fans care about Archie’s marriage proposal
MUSIC: Orchestrations (also, comic-book love triangles)
I haven’t had a lot of posting time today, but here are links to two pieces I wrote elsewhere on this fine website:
Archie, Betty and Veronica: A Timeline
How we got to the famous comic book proposal
Comic strip bombshell!!
They ignored Vietnam, 9/11 and Iraq but Archie, Blondie and Co. sure are worried about the economy