I acquired the first half (I believe) of the last issue of Archie's LIFE WITH ARCHIE to-day , the comic book-sized version of (I believe) the first half of the story , with the " mid-Twentieth Century Life Magazine " cover .
I don't think I've even opened it yet .
Archie gets killed in this issue , as I'm sure anybody here who's read down this far knows ! :-)
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I was startled to find that this latest issue of Life With Archie wasn't magazine-sized; it was the size and shape of a conventional comic.
Bad enough they're killing the title, but why is it going out like that?
What spin-off? Life Without Archie?
At the supermarket today I heard the cashier telling the box boy about this. She was convinced Archie was really dead and they're discontinuing the company. Thought about trying to tell her they're not closing down but I suspect she wouldn't have believed me.
So the deaths of this character and that character aren't for anybody that actually reads comics and thus knows better. They're made in hopes that the general public will be tricked into buying the death issue, and then maybe staying long enough for the miraculous recovery issue.
I'd say Archie is desperate (I believe Betty and Veronica are selling almost at fanzine level now) and is throwing everything they can think of against the wall hoping something will stick.
People aren't reading. If they do read it's on some sort of electronic device, not paper, and probably manga related. When asked for favorite childhood memories, a number of young people only talked about the video games they used to play, nothing else.
They're not just out of the habit, they're often opposed to it. Songs and tv programs taken down from youtube are met with irate curses against the copyright holders for being greedy and claim fair use means they should be able to see anything for free.
ClarkKent_DC said:
Alexandra Kitty said:
Good one!
...I was under the impression that this was , in fascty , 1/2 of the " normal "-sized LWA #36 , whiochwould be coming out in its normal magazine size with a two-part version of the story - But , yeah , it's something like a 42-page story a full issue of LWA just now publ;ished in standard comic boiok size , not the magazine size .
Was one reason for this Archie's decision to put multiple covers on it ?
Is this not do-able/at least , practical , for the magazine size , only for traditional comic book size ?
As for the story (Aside from that it's good.) , well...
BTW , in case no one else remembers this , when LWA was announced , a few years ago , it was going to be two conventional comic book-sized comic books , one for the Betty marriage universe , one for the Veronica one , they just changed their mind and made it the "two-in-one " magicomic format .