Betty and Veronica Get A Makeover

VileTerror · Post by **VileTerror** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:09 pm

My head has really been in the gutter this year.
I saw "titles" as "titties" and "makeover" as "makeout".

Nyke · Post by **Nyke** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:14 pm

VileTerror wrote:My head has really been in the gutter this year.
I saw "titles" as "titties" and "makeover" as "makeout".

Amateur, I can read "Origami" as "Orgasm".

TRI · Post by **TRI** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:17 pm

Right now I'm sure there's someone in Japan figuring out how to make an origami orgasm.

VileTerror · Post by **VileTerror** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:18 pm

In Japan? I'll have you know I practice origami here in Canada!

. . . er, not that <i>I</i> would <b>ever</b> try to make an orgasm out of paper . . .

Mr.Bob · Post by **Mr.Bob** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:45 pm

Besides me being averse to change, even for a franchise I never particularly cared for, this particular new look stings my eyes.

Archie was kinda funny because there was this guy stuck in the 50s with his weird 50s junk car and 50s clothes in some sort of personal Happy Days universe while his surroundings appeared to move on with the times without him.

I remember reading those time-filler little books (borrowed from a friend who always had new ones but never really read them) when I was 13 and thinking, Gee these would be great if someone had remembered to put some jokes in them. And then I ogled at Betty and Veronica.

(I'd choose Betty by the way)

Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:57 pm

The original Archie house style was created by Dan DeCarlo, one of the great cartoonists of all time.

The new style looks like it's designed by a 13 year old good trying to copy already shitty anime.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:08 am

Archie was good bathroom reading.

TRI · Post by **TRI** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:08 am

Mr.Bob wrote:(I'd choose Betty by the way)

Fine by me. You can have Betty and I'll take Veronica.

The Neko · Post by **The Neko** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:10 am

PeppermintAfterlife wrote:Archie was good bathroom reading.

Because when you were done you could put it to new uses?

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:12 am

The Neko wrote:
PeppermintAfterlife wrote:Archie was good bathroom reading.
Because when you were done you could put it to new uses?

well, it has more absorbancy than the standard Sears catalogue.

TRI · Post by **TRI** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:18 am

I find the yellow pages work well but you have to crumple and uncrumple the pages a couple times to achive the desired softness.

Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:37 am

TRI wrote:
Mr.Bob wrote:(I'd choose Betty by the way)
Fine by me. You can have Betty and I'll take Veronica.

To hell with them both...I'll take Cheryl Blossom. Redheads are where it's at.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 5:49 am

Jackhass wrote:...Redheads are where it's at.

Most definitely.

Turnsky · Post by **Turnsky** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:08 am

unless jughead keeps his characteristic snoot and hat, i'll be ticked off

Cortland · Post by **Cortland** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:22 am

My general reaction to this sort of thing is "ugh." The classic look for the Archie cast is a much softer, likeable style, and this new one just seems to be trying way too hard to be "cool" and "edgy." That's not what Archie is.

Turnsky · Post by **Turnsky** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:25 am

cortland wrote:My general reaction to this sort of thing is "ugh." The classic look for the Archie cast is a much softer, likeable style, and this new one just seems to be trying way too hard to be "cool" and "edgy." That's not what Archie is.

archie was more about 50's sensibilities, kinda like "happy days" minus the fonz

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:46 am

I like this style. But not with Archie.

Pimpette · Post by **Pimpette** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:01 am

Aw, I always liked Archie comics. We had a giant stack of them - probably still do, somewhere.

The new style doesn't bother me - everything changes eventually, and although I am nostalgic for the old style, I haven't read Archie in so long it doesn't really matter to me that much.

Tellurider · Post by **Tellurider** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:32 am

As soon as I saw it I thought "BLASPHEMY!"

I bought maybe like 10 archie comics back when I was, well, probably about 10, but it's kind of like, hey, if there's a natural progression in art, like say with Garfield, then cool. But to radically change the style of something that's looked exactly the same for so long basically screams "OH DEAR GOD WE'RE SO DESPERATE PLEASE BUY OUR COMICS WE'LL DO ANYTHING!"

As for Reggie... he only hits on the girls when it upsets Archie, if I remember right, and come on, that's just overcompensation.

Pimpette · Post by **Pimpette** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:34 am

Tellurider wrote:As for Reggie... he only hits on the girls when it upsets Archie, if I remember right, and come on, that's just overcompensation.

Oh I dunno, he was always off trying to do unspeakable things to Midge when Moose wasn't looking.
Maybe he's a bit of a masochist too.

And Midge is a ho.

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