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Just too Sad!"Hang on Lady... We go for a RIDE!" - Shorty to Willie Scott.Best movie line from Indiana Jones & the Temple Of Doom -
I'm speechless.
Archie did some semi-racy stuff as Red Circle Comics in the late 70s, right? And of course they had their own horror titles pre-code.
But this is something I didn't expect.
At this point I'm waiting for My Little Pony: Zombies are Magic.
ChrisComment
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I'll be honest. I've never understood the fascination with turning iconic characters into decomposing corpses. It turns my stomach. I don't understand the appeal of that or even anyone who would want a figure of it. I guess that's just how twisted our culture has become. There's nothing sacred. At what point do we as a society say enough?Comment
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Hmmmm....
I'm mixed on this one. Archie's pretty invulnerable; so even if this is the worstest thing ever it'll be forgotten in a few months. (Until it ends up in endless reprints in them little digests.) Like the article says, the idea of Arch having to put down zombie Jughead makes my inner 14 year old giggle to no end.
'Course, we don't know anything about the actual story. Maybe it's about what happens when Riverdale citizens die, and that's a pic of Jughead in Archie Hell; punishment for years of gluttony. (Which makes my inner 14 year old laugh even harder.)
Capitalizing on trends has always been a staple of the Archie line. Pureheart the Powerful, Teens from R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E., durned near everything they did in the 80's.... even seemingly inappropriate/odd choices:
So.... I dunno. I'm curious, and pretty sure that no matter how good or bad it won't do any real harm to the character.
Don C.Comment
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I have to say this is bad.
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Thank you. I agree completely. I'm glad Marvel Zombies kind of came and went. I got tired of explaining to my son why Spider-Man was a corpse and half of Mary Jane's torso was rotted off.I'll be honest. I've never understood the fascination with turning iconic characters into decomposing corpses. It turns my stomach. I don't understand the appeal of that or even anyone who would want a figure of it. I guess that's just how twisted our culture has become. There's nothing sacred. At what point do we as a society say enough?
ChrisComment
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Sigh...what bothers me more than the zombie thing is Archie always seems behind the curve. They met Kiss last year and crossed over with Glee (?!) last week. You know if Archie is commenting on a trend, that trend is already dead...Think OUTSIDE the Box! For the BEST in Repro & Custom Packaging!Comment
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I'm looking forward to Archie crossing over with The Cape.
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I just get tired of having to monitor everything for my kids. They do not like violent things. My daughter likes the Archie comics and I am sure she would be distress seeing this on the shelf. Obviously, the answer is not to get this or bring it to her attention, I too just do not get the Zombie fascination. I have a friend who has loved Zombie things for years, before the concept even became vogue, so I do not belittle anyone who likes it, I just personally do not get it.It's all good!Comment
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I'm waiting for the special they have to do with Archie breaking his leg from jumping on so many bandwagons.Comment
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>You know if Archie is commenting on a trend, that trend is already dead
HAW! THAT'S always been true too! I think since the 50's Archie's been a discretionless schill.... not that it's neccessarily a BAD thing, but there ya go. I've long suspected it's 'cos the producers want to see what the final ramifications of any trend are gonna be before getting mixed up in it. So now that the hooplah over zombies is gone it's a safe topic. (Hence getting stories like the one where Jug goes punk in 1984; almost 5 years after punk had been forgotten by the masses.)
The only thing that sets off my hackles for stuff like this is that they keep swaying towards the kind on over-hyped non-event that's been crippling the Big Two-ish for deacdes. Not that Archie's never had a non-event; in the Archie line they're almost a monthly occurence.... but there's never been the big cloud of hooplah around them like the superhero ones get. You don't hear about them months in advance. At least; you DIDN'T. Any controversy happened AFTER the story came out. I think that "under the radar" kind of thing works for Archie. Any story they do; no matter how controversioal or how much of an effect it SHOULD have on the setting comes and goes with little fanfare. Until it's endlessly reprinted in digest form. (Although there have been a few periods that HAVEN'T come back.... such as Jug's love triangle/quadratical from the late 80's....) It's like a magic trick; it works, and it's entertaining only as long as you don't look into it too carefully. Which is what happened to the Big Two-ish in the 80's: "continuity" became a big deal, and it grew increasingly difficult for the fans to reconcile for themselves all the changes and redos. Archie doesn't have that. Nobody wonders why sometimes he has a jalopy, sometimes a hatchback. Kids don't know any better; oldster fans can still let it slide.
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