This is my line started for all titles/companies-lines published by Archie Comics , including MLJ Comics , Radio Comics , Red Circle Comics , Stan Lee Comics...Including , most of all , <<"THOSE">> Riverdale teenagers...But since I did this with " Comics " capitalized , it includes <<<<<"ALL">>>>> of the company !!!!!!!!!!!
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The Afterlife with Archie issue #4 broke my heart.
One of the best books on the stands right now.
I bought THE FOX #5 after not having bought 1-3 .
#4 finished up the front-of-the-book story , and also had a Shield back-up which at its end involved the Fox ~ and all of #5 continues that , a WI-set story with the Fox , back in time , meeting the Shield and the German and Japanese representatives of their country that the story originally takes off from the Shield fighting . (Considering that the Alliance that the U.S was part of during World War I fought THREE nations its primary opponent - You know , they were called the " Axis " - villains representing Mussolini-era Italy have always been highly rare in comic books !)
J. M. DeMatteis writes .The ' new age "-y inclinations that DeMatteis's writing have been known for do show up ! Dean Haspiel's " Line Art (as it is credited) is solid , perhaps a little Adventures-y - Does that credit indicate that it was some sort of " ' pencils ' on a computer , digitally filled out " deal ? Okay/alright/passable . However , the text page's bright sentiment about the " Red Circle Universe " come off a bit odd when one considers all the DIFFERENT versions of the Red Circle characters there have been ~ and how short-lived most of them have been !
ARCHIE #653 has its annual Publisher's Statement . Which , as far as sales go , reveal a.....................
somewhat troubling total paid circulation of...........
just slightly over 11,000 copies , essentially stable (Actually , down slightly less than 100 copies in the latest issue as against the past 12 months average ..)..against a total number of copies printed of more than 27,500 for the latest issue against over 31,000 printed past-12's average ! Oh dear .
At least , to look at the bright side , the percentage of wasted copies in the press run has gone down...Still about 60% , however:-(...
Emerkeith Davyjack said:
I bought THE FOX #5 after not having bought 1-3 .
#4 finished up the front-of-the-book story , and also had a Shield back-up which at its end involved the Fox ~ and all of #5 continues that , a WI-set story with the Fox , back in time , meeting the Shield and the German and Japanese representatives of their country that the story originally takes off from the Shield fighting . (Considering that the Alliance that the U.S was part of during World War I fought THREE nations its primary opponent - You know , they were called the " Axis " - villains representing Mussolini-era Italy have always been highly rare in comic books !)
I think you meant "a WWII-set story." As for Mussolini's Italy, he was more of a junior partner in the Axis. Soon after Italy was invaded by Allied troops in 1943 (almost a year before D-Day) Mussolini was deposed and imprisoned by his own Fascist party. The Germans soon freed him but he did not have any real power long before he was executed by Italian partisans, functioning as a puppet of the Germans in the part of Italy controlled by them.
.Yes . I meant " WWII " , I am especially having problems with this keyboard involving doubled letters...
Richard Willis said:
...The Captain has commented about Archie's late shipping & delays as of late - Over at the Archiefans.Com website , this has (naturally enuff :-)!!!!!!!!!!!) a subject of EVEN MORE discussion , and , it has also come out that , in at least one case , a delayed-in-its paper version recent issue already has its following issue available online , in cyber-form - There's been speculation made there that maybe Arcie's been trying to save on the fixed printing cost - What gives ?????????
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...Did anybody here follow Stan Goldbergs's art in his later , Oughties , years on/for Archie ???????????
One peculiarity about Stan was that he drew the male Archie character's waist-below clothing - As if they were wearing sweatpants . Or velour , something like that .
Really , it was quite noticeable .
Archie , or Jughead's , trouser/pants would be shown kind of bending/bunching up , sort of of jumbling .
Now , honestly , don't we tend to picture contemporary teenagers tending to wear jeans , blue or otherewise , of some kind of , um , what full length pants do you picture a modern-day teenage tending to wear for noeveryday school or social occasions ???
I said " full-length " because of something else that , at least in my 16&1/2 years in Northern-Central Coastal California , I tend to think of " young people " waring...Shorts . Of the more " jams "/" staker-surfer " type .
Perhaps that's a bit unique to this area , and after all Riverdale exists in something of a Brigadoon-modern day Mayberry " old fashioned "/tastefully conservative time warp...But , anyway Stan Goldberg in his later years tended to draw males with these rather " sweatpants " long pants !!!!!!!!! Now , I can kind of see it as being done for intended comical effect , the bunched-upness of the characters' trousers sort of reflecting their confusin/befuddlement...
This morning I read:
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #2-3: Written by Roberto Aguirre-Sarcasa with art by Robert Hack, this was a cold-blooded look at how a woman by the name of Madame Satan has manipulated Sabrina from the start. This book has gone down the road that so many old-school horror books have traveled, but with an updated take. But when I say horror, I am talking horror. Even though I don't believe in that kind of thing, it's probably for the best I read this in the morning.
Afterlife With Archie #8: The whole gang is holed up in a hotel, where they have to make a horrible decision. We get to see Jughead in ghost form, along with Hot Dog and the other zombified folks of Riverdale. This ends with a nice little twist, but yeah, the elements of horror just keep getting cranked up another notch. Excellent stuff.
Chilling Adventures in Sorcery: This graphic novelization of some of the best of historical Archie horror comics was incredible. It was in black and white, and it had some really scary horror stories, both comic book and prose pages. The prose stories were all one-page masterpieces. I have never read one of those that I liked before today, and today I read a bunch of them.
This book features the talents of Dan DeCarlo, Gray Morrow, Howard Chaykin, Alex Toth, Larry Hama, Dick Giordano, Vincente Alcazar, Frank Thorne, Steve Skeates, Mary Skrenes, and Bruce Jones (plus a whole bunch more).
If you have any interest whatsoever in horror comics, from EC to Warren to Eerie to Creepy, you owe it to yourself to check out this comic from Archie Comics. It came out last year, and I got mine from Amazon (last year...I'm behind).
...I had it - and it got stolen (sob), all g witb e erythinv else and a backpack). It's Vol. 1. Is there a V. 3? Something covering the only??.other Red Circle horror tie, MADHOUSE?
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