Thread 150066803

Man I really wish I didn't read this series. It was genuinely upsetting that Archie died and felt like it was for nothing after all those issues. All that buildup with those parallel stories flet like it was all worthless. I need a palate cleanser after this.

>>150066803 (OP)
Fitting since Archie announced that they're ending their digests.

It's funny because Archie really died in 2007 with Richard Goldwater

>>150067458
B-but I thought they were successful because they’re in grocery stores!? The newstand market!!

>>150066803 (OP)
I remember this was the ending of classic archie, Then marc waid made that popular modern run.
And thats the actual last time I ever tried to read archie.
What's the book doing nowadays? Did we have a reboot or nothing changed at all?

>>150067872
The Mark Waid run was good as far as teen melodramas go (characters making really dumb decisions for conflict), but then it was all abandoned for greater brand synergy with the Riverdale tv show. Many things were changed and most egregious was that about a kind of mystery plot that was abandoned completely and was jarring to see it not mentioned again. And that whole line up has been in hiatus since 2020 so it might be unofficially dead at this point

>>150068040
>The Mark Waid run was good as far as teen melodramas go (characters making really dumb decisions for conflict), but then it was all abandoned for greater brand synergy with the Riverdale tv show
The Worst choice ever made. How can you fucked up this hard?
>>150068040
>And that whole line up has been in hiatus since 2020 so it might be unofficially dead at this point
So what's the archie book releasing nowadays? Just reprints? Did archie died as a comic book?

>>150066803 (OP)
Is this where he takes a bullet for his gay friend

>>150067872
>I remember this was the ending of classic archie
Kinda anticlimactic if you ask me, and boring as the archie loves betty/veronica ending in both.

>>150068142
Yup

>>150068131
>How can you fucked up this hard?
Tell me about it. I was actually enjoying the dynamics and the characters despite the melodrama. Then they did this absurd rugpull which made feel utterly lost and betrayed.

>So what's the archie book releasing nowadays? Just reprints?
Dunno. But it seems a movie is in the works

>>150066803 (OP)
>We could have a cute ending with archie finally choosing and settling down with Betty or Veronica
>archie dies for political shit, saving his gay friends for stupid drama shit.
I know archie as a comic is ignored nowadays, but every piece of media have his niche of fans, how the die hard fans take it?

>>150068340
>how the die hard fans take it?
Would like to know that as well

>>150068131
>So what's the archie book releasing nowadays? Just reprints? Did archie died as a comic book?

I think they sometimes release new stuff but it's infrequent. Sometimes there's crossover specials like the recent Archie Meets Jay and Silent Bob

>>150066803 (OP)
Wait, Archie actually dies!? I thought it was one of those Silver Age-style stories in which the cover lies to the reader just to make people buy it.

>>150067458
>>150067565
They're still doing digests, but it's just gonna be a seasonal release and slightly different from the old digests. But yes people insisting that comics need to get rid of the direct market and go back to newsstand really, really have not followed anything that's been going on in the newsstand market

>>150069823
Yeah, that also supposed to be the end of the original Archie, becaue they wanted to make a new modern continuity introduced by Mark waid.
Than as this anon said, >>150068040
They fucked up real bad in favor of a synergy with the Riverdale show that was popular at the time.
We too had an alternate stories of him marrying Betty and veronica on different timelines, heck we eve had one where archie married the black girl from Jossie and the pussycats and if I remember right, one where he married the redhead that was supposed to be archie new love interest (at the time)
So yes, original archie died for shock value and political woke shenanigans.

>>150069823
>>150070398
It's not Original Archie. Both the timelines were alternate timelines about what would happen if Archie married Betty or Veronica, but somehow they had the idea to resolve both by having Archie killed in both of them

>>150069823
Life with Archie were stories set in two alternate futures- one where he married Betty, one where he married Veronica. so you're close with your silver age comparison. That said, it WAS kind of the death of classic Archie in general- even if it wasn't the same "continuity" as the main book, the main book rebooted soon after anyway, so this was kind of a final point in that general version of Archie (as a recurring thing- they do still make some stories in the classic style of course, just not as their main thing)

>>150070439
They did happen in al alternate continuity but as superman: for the man that has everything, is as story that was supposed to end classic archie as a whole, so technically classic archie actually died.
>>150070439
>but somehow they had the idea to resolve both by having Archie killed in both of them
For real, what an idiotic resolution.
>>150070448
This anon resumed it pretty right.

>>150070556
>For real, what an idiotic resolution.
They killed archie in both continuities because they knew shipperfags and fans in general will burn the world if the wrong girl won archie's heart.
I even remember the news about how fans were mad about archie dying.
Most Fans were pretty sure if archie settled down, the actual archie winner should have been betty. (Which i agree to be honest)

>>150070650
the actual solution for setups like this is to cuck the shipperfags of both solutions
therefore he should've ended with Cheryl Blossom instead

>>150070650
Wouldn't the fact that there were two different versions of the book ala Pokemon games, be enough to keep shippers satisfied?

>>150070685
>the actual solution for setups like this is to cuck the shipperfags of both solutions
>therefore he should've ended with Cheryl Blossom instead
Ah, the good ol' Evangelion ending, that was probably the best ending archie could ever had, Cheryl was even created for that purpose, could have been funny too. Ending with Valerie could have been interesting too.
>>150070736
>Wouldn't the fact that there were two different versions of the book ala Pokemon games, be enough to keep shippers satisfied
It could have worked if archie comics didn't killed archie in both timelines, that was the whole reason archie marries betty/Veronica existed in the first place, but they blew it up.

>>150070685
They did sorta cuck the shipperfags in the end...with archie's death.

>>150070650
They should have just had Archie have two happy endings.

>>150071399
They did. Archie Marries Betty and Archie Marries Veronica (and also Archie Marries Valerie from the Pussycats band as a surprise third option)

>>150070650
>>150070685
Cheryl blossom winning the archiw bowl, could have been a really fun ending, but guys, imagine pic related being the other side of the coin. Based Jughead.

>>150071454
Archie at one point had 4 possible good endings.

>>150071454
The only one that actually had a happy ending was Valerie.
If Betty or Veronica won Archie's heart he dies protecting his gay fried.
Cheryl blossom wasnt even an option in the end, she was her own thing.

>>150071399
To bad about the west seething about harem endings.

>>150066803 (OP)
In a twist of fate, the best Archie ending didn't even happen in Archie

>>150071478
That's haram! Jughead would never fall for the trickery of the vaginajew!

>>150072542
Red pill me on this one, what's this?
>>150072576
While I agree on Jughead being completely burgersexual, while being comically misogynistic. The dude actually got a chick pregnant and married her in one of those stories where archie marries Betty or Veronica, I cant remember which girl tough, I think it was midget Klump.
Funny enough Betty and him were a thing at some point in classic archie too, but people prefer them as best friends.
The funny to know Reggie was the rebound guy for both Betty and veronica with whoever married archie.

>>150073140
>Red pill me on this one, what's this?
Archie Comics reimagining but as a noir crime drama. It’s four issues so you can easily finish it.

>>150073140
Jughead landed veronica at one point too, the memes about Jughead being asexual are lies and slander.

>>150070205
What I read is that ALL digests are ending.

>>150072542
I will not bother to read it,how's the ending?

STOP THE PRESSES

and when i say stop the presses, i mean PLEASE KILL ME NOW PAINLESSLY

>>150068040
>but then it was all abandoned for greater brand synergy with the Riverdale tv show. Many things were changed and most egregious was that about a kind of mystery plot that was abandoned completely and was jarring to see it not mentioned again. And that whole line up has been in hiatus since 2020 so it might be unofficially dead at this point
but enough about picrel

>>150073473

>tom king

Why

>>150073473

This is gonna be worse than the tv show, isnt it

>>150073290
>asexual are lies and slander
asexuals has sex you fucking child
sex is just not the motivation for intimacy but a result

>>150073473

>the lego movie

Might be good

>>150073473
>produces by Chris Miller and Phil lord, the dudes behind the Lego movie and spider-man: into the spiderverse
It could be cool, and good, but making archie cool and hip sound extremely hard.
>tom king as screenwriter.
The fuck? What a Rollercoaster, sounds like something to be worried for.

>>150073437
Depends.

>>150073566
Be direct bro, please.

>>150073485
Why the heck didn’t they continue this? From what I have seen there are only 10 issues. Is it abandoned?

>>150073140
Midge broke up with moose? Did the comic made him gay like the Riverdale series?

>>150073573
faux-Archie kills his wife faux-Veronica, frames faux-Reggie for the murder, takes over faux-Lodge company, gets together with faux-Bettie, and kills faux-Jughead to tie up loose ends.

>>150073597
I think they implied he was abusive. It was kind of difficult to read if he was supposed to be physically abusive though

>>150073597
Moose was gay on Riverdale? Fuck that!

>>150073803
Modern times, bro. Gay will be inserted into everything

Archie didn't ended up with Betty nor Veronica because we know in modern times is bad for girls to comically fall in love with guys.
I assume for stupid neo feminists reasons, which is stupid because archie was just a funny comical story of two girls wanting the same man.

Honestly I did kinda like that it happened in both timelines. It shows that Archie not matter who he chooses is still the person who would take a bullet for a friend

>>150070685
They who would Betty and Veronica get with

>>150074681
Apparently Reggie was the dude for it as this loc shows. >>150073140
In a good timeline, Jughead became the main character.

>>150074681
each other

>>150066803 (OP)
There was actually a 10th anniversary edition of this married life story for 6 issues. Similarly to this, Archie’s life is shown in parallel with one showing his married life with Betty and the other with Betty. However, in the last issue, Archie does not die. Instead, he and Betty and Veronica get whisked away by Dilton in his time (meta) machine to a kind of forever Riverdale where they can forever be together.

I don’t know what to feel about this though. It feels hopeful, happy, sad, and haunting at the same time.

>>150075062
The fuck is that of ending? is as bad as the original, and ten times more wacky.

>>150075116
Well this was the only way the writers saw to write a sort of ending. I know it's unfulfilling, but there is actually no other way unless you go directly for polygamy for the three characters to be happy together

>>150073410
All digests are ending to be replaced by a digest that is released seasonally.

https://13thdimension.com/archie-comics-publishing-line-is-evolving-this-fall/

So they're still doing it, but it's less than before.

I completely forgot that Norm Breyfogle drew some of the chapters of the Life With Archie comic

>>150075997
In archie, the harem ending could have made more sense, but the west is not prepared for that.
>>150076047
How does archie comics survives nowadays? Specially knowing his main book is far from popular, the classic archie ended and his other cash cow that was sonic the hedgehog got canceled thanks to legal shenanigans.
For real what's happening in the industry right now? Archie is dying, idw is dying, boom and dynamite are at the edge of bankruptcy, Whats going on?

>>150076107
It might be the end of an era. The sad thing is that there is nothing to replace it.

>>150076107
Diamond's bankruptcy caused some problems.

But in the case of Archie, the new newsstand distributor they have likely pushed for a different kind of digest. If you're in the US have you seen what the magazine section of a grocery store or drug store or checkout section of a Walmart or Target look like? Usually there's magazines that are more like magazine specials or bookazines or whatever they're called. MAD is basically this now where you get a thick reprint magazine special reprinting old stuff every season, but sometimes it's usually the same theme over and over

Don't forget that a decade ago Archie was going to use Kickstarter to fund themselves to get back in grocery stores and such. They ended up not needing it, but it's pretty clear they're not doing as well as the people insisting that we need to get rid of the direct market to put everything in grocery stores believe it's doing

>>150073140
In the Veronica timeline, Jughead was previously in a relationship with Midge, but eventually married Ethel

In the Betty timeline, Jughead married Midge

>>150076107
>How does archie comics survives nowadays?

I assume probably trying to get stuff made into movies and film or something

>>150075062
The 10th Anniversary stories are alternate timelines to the alternate timelines. I wondered if this was what Uslan planned since he only wrote the marriage issues and the first issues of the ongoing back in 2019, then Paul Kupperberg took over for the rest of the series

>>150066803 (OP)
>Archie dies for his gay friend out of nowhere
Hated this book. Hated Kevin. Everyone just kissed his ass and acted like he was a long time friend

>>150071680
They gave Cheryl cancer and made her bald in the Archie marries Betty timeline. In the Veronica one, she just vanished to become a failed actress.

>>150076418
Man she really got the short end of the stick. On both ends.

>>150076418
For real? She was a cool character, why the sudden hateboner for her? Was it a vendetta because she was better than Betty and Veronica in every regard?

>>150076669
Probably couldn't think of any other way to write her out short of killing her, since Cheryl would never stick around if Betty or Veronica won. She liked Archie partly to screw with them.
They also made Archie a miserable dead end loser when he was with Betty. She was the career woman who never had time for him and he almost cheated with the lunch woman's niece.

Meanwhile when he was married to Veronica they were constantly horny for each other and his stress was Mr Lodge pushing work on him.

>>150076871
Funny how archie life was more miserable, when she married Betty, in would have thought archie comic would choose the stereotypical happy ending with her.
So veronica in the end had a better ending with archie.

>>150076964
The funniest part to me is how horny Veronica was for Archie in their married life, since the comics always had her walking all over him and being bored of him if Betty wasn't around. Almost every chapter ended with them about to have sex with the heart symbols. You'd think that'd be how Betty and Archie would be instead. The writers must've thought Betty was too good for him or something

>>150077820
A lot of recent writing has been really harsh on Archie almost to the point of antagonism. In this comic series (pic related), Archie is presented as the person who is always at fault, always commits mistake, while Jughead becomes his aloof, self-ritghteous jerk who seems to be just there to point out how much Archie is at fault. It's something I have seen done with Peter Parker too

>>150066803 (OP)
Who reads this crap? It's like capeshit.

>>150079525
It filters midwits like yourself

>>150071888
They have been allowing gay and trans nowadays. There was also the polygamy in the last season of Young Justice with that fish person. Harem situations might just be a matter of time.

>>150073491
Cause this man has a stranglehold on comics which is never going away.

>>150073501
Get ready for lots of gay, bi, and trans representation. Oh, also, humiliating Archie in some way or another

>>150069823
I thought it was part of a whole multiverse what-if thing.

>>150081983
It had the same format as superman: for the man who has everything.
It takes on an alternative timeline/universe but in the end, it was designed with the intention of ending the classic archie story, because the classic archie book, got rebooted in favor of a more modernized take that started with Mark waid run.
In the end classic archie actually died saving his gay friend in both timelines.

These post are also on point
>>150070448
>>150070650

>>150081983
>>150082404
The original Archie Marries Veronica/Archie Marries Betty was Archie walking through two different paths and experiencing both timelines

The Life With Archie magazine continues where it left off and both end up concluding with Archie getting shot and killed

The Life With Archie 10th Anniversary ignores much of the events of the Life With Archie magazine and eventually ends with >>150075062

>>150082617
>The Life With Archie 10th Anniversary ignores much of the events of the Life With Archie magazine and eventually ends with >>150075062 #
Is as nonsensical as the endings where archie dies.