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Based on Afterlife... and ...vs Predator, Cheryl seems to be (1) An rear end in a top hat, (2) Hates everyone who isn't rich like her brother, at best willing to tolerate the more attractive ones to toy with them, and (3) isn't very smart.
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SilverSupernova posted:My favorite part of that was either Nextwave M.O.D.O.K. the old world M.O.D.O.K. who thought all of the modern technologies were all alchemy or sorcery. Real quick, did we ever figure out the waste disposal problem in our suits 
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SomeJazzyRat posted:Based on Afterlife... and ...vs Predator, Cheryl seems to be (1) An rear end in a top hat, (2) Hates everyone who isn't rich like her brother, at best willing to tolerate the more attractive ones to toy with them, and (3) isn't very smart. She and her brother are also horribly killed in the typical Predator fashion in AvP #1, because this series has to be completely loving batshit.  I really wanna know how they stretch this to four issues.
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Gavok posted:
The best part about this page is later on, the cake is shown with bits of pop's skull and eyeball still in the chocolate cake. And despite this, Jug Head eats it. This series is fantastic, it's on a par with Punisher Meets Archie.
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May 20, 2015 20:44
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Gavok posted:
I've said it before but I have no idea what the hell the guys at archie are thinking and I love it. I really have to pick up this series.
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May 20, 2015 21:00
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darthbob88 posted:Only if she was saying "Death to the Bourgeoisie!" instead. Lunatic Pathos posted:Death to the proletariat makes no sense for anyone to say. "Death to all the workers in my factory. Once they're gone, nothing will stand in the way of my profits!" Unless maybe automation is super advanced in the Archie-verse, such that all of humanity is super affluent and served by robot workers.  . Sorry, that one wasn't very clear, looking back on it.
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May 20, 2015 21:13
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SomeJazzyRat posted:Based on Afterlife... and ...vs Predator, Cheryl seems to be (1) An rear end in a top hat, (2) Hates everyone who isn't rich like her brother, at best willing to tolerate the more attractive ones to toy with them, and (3) isn't very smart. Cheryl was literally only created because writers had slowly turned Veronica from an evil rich bitch with no redeeming values to a fully rounded character who's actually friends with Betty outside of their rivalry. So they created a new girl who was as evil and detestable as Veronica used to be, and even more rich. Her brother basically exists because the same thing happened to Reggie to a lesser extent.
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May 20, 2015 21:23
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Lurdiak posted:Cheryl was literally only created because writers had slowly turned Veronica from an evil rich bitch with no redeeming values to a fully rounded character who's actually friends with Betty outside of their rivalry. So they created a new girl who was as evil and detestable as Veronica used to be, and even more rich. And then they gave Cheryl her own book and kinda ran into the same problem where she has to be at least sort of likeable in her bitchiness for it to work. Hence why she's only a semi-regular supporting character now. SomeJazzyRat posted:Based on Afterlife... and ...vs Predator, Cheryl seems to be (1) An rear end in a top hat, (2) Hates everyone who isn't rich like her brother, at best willing to tolerate the more attractive ones to toy with them, and (3) isn't very smart.
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Gaz-L posted:And then they gave Cheryl her own book and kinda ran into the same problem where she has to be at least sort of likeable in her bitchiness for it to work. Hence why she's only a semi-regular supporting character now. "But she loves animals!" "So did Hitler."
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Gaz-L posted:And then they gave Cheryl her own book and kinda ran into the same problem where she has to be at least sort of likeable in her bitchiness for it to work. Hence why she's only a semi-regular supporting character now. As I recall, she's basically the Cersei Lannister of Riverdale. With allllllll that implies.
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AvP #2's pretty great. It's going off the rails at an alarming pace. 
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May 21, 2015 07:01
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SynthOrange posted:AvP #2's pretty great. It's going off the rails at an alarming pace. Well, Cthulhu DOES have a pretty big skull. This could work.
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May 21, 2015 08:25
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I really hope this book ends with a stealth crossover with Marvel as the Punisher shows up to save the day.
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May 21, 2015 12:44
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Didn't they already summon Cthulhu in an Archie comic? Is it becoming a running theme?
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May 21, 2015 13:00
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It seems like going to the 'oh right Sabrina has literal magic' well is a recurring theme in the new Archie What If?s.
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goatface posted:Didn't they already summon Cthulhu in an Archie comic? Is it becoming a running theme? Minor Afterlife with Archie spoilers because that comic is unironically the best zombie/horror comic I've read in goddamn years and you should be reading it: Sabrina uses the Necronominicon to summon Jughead's dog which bites Jughead and sets off the zombie plague. This has her banished to the "Nether-Realm" which seems to partially consist of an institute run by some opaque malevolent forces that either are, are using, or take the form of H.P. Lovecraft himself. When Sabrina finds out she's sacrificed as the Bride of Cthullu and that's the last we've seen of her in the series thus far to my knowledge. So yeah, there is a bit of a running theme involved, although I hope AvP does something useful with it because all that page is doing is reminding me of a better series I could be reading.
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May 21, 2015 13:57
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Speaking of Sabrina.. AvP#1
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May 21, 2015 14:50
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I still love that she's watching Suspiria.
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Dr. Hurt posted:I still love that she's watching Suspiria. It's probably like Blazing Saddles for them.
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May 21, 2015 23:32
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I really hope the next page is Hellboy sitting crosslegged on the floor trying not to crush legos with his enormous stone fingers 
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May 22, 2015 01:36
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Sadly that's it.
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The Question IRL posted:This series is fantastic, it's on a par with Punisher Meets Archie. I love that, appropriately enough, the Predator is a teenager who communicates in LCD emojis.
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May 22, 2015 02:38
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And by the end of issue #2 half the cast is dead/dismembered. Pretty grim for an Archie book! 
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May 22, 2015 02:39
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SynthOrange posted:And by the end of issue #2 half the cast is dead/dismembered. Pretty grim for an Archie book! Afterlife with Archie featured Archie tearfully beating his zombified father to death. After that, I honestly don't have any limits on what might be in an Archie comic. It is a strange, brave new world we live in.
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May 22, 2015 02:46
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Why can Archie of all things get so crazy?
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May 22, 2015 02:50
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hiddenriverninja posted:Why can Archie of all things get so crazy? If you try to take Archie seriously, you will fail. It's simply impossible. This is the secret.
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John Dyne posted:Speaking of Sabrina.. Tonight, the role of Sabrina will apparently be played by Rose Lalonde.
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hiddenriverninja posted:Why can Archie of all things get so crazy? New Archie EIC wants to make things interesting to all.
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hiddenriverninja posted:Why can Archie of all things get so crazy? The Archie cast is basically a set of horror movie cliches already. Putting monsters in it just completes the other half of the equation.
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RandallODim posted:Afterlife with Archie featured Archie tearfully beating his zombified father to death. After that, I honestly don't have any limits on what might be in an Archie comic. It is a strange, brave new world we live in. That dog scene, though 
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May 22, 2015 03:02
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hiddenriverninja posted:Why can Archie of all things get so crazy? Because they're not owned by a multinational conglomerate constantly breathing down their necks about "protecting our IP for future merchandising profitability."
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May 22, 2015 03:10
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So how long until Archie vs. the Terminator?
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:That dog scene, though Afterlife with Archie: A book way more touching than 'Archie but with zombies' would ever make you expect.
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It used a long established cast as a shortcut to do what horror is actually about, empathy.
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They're definitely trading on the absurdity of the squeaky-clean, painfully dull Archie Comics jumping into blood and guts, and there's probably a limit on the novelty of that. Once you've cashed in a long history of sincerity to do "Zombies/slasher villains, but with Archie" there's not really anywhere left to go, unless you have the guts to go full post-modern.
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Someone get Grant Morrison on the line!
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Dolash posted:They're definitely trading on the absurdity of the squeaky-clean, painfully dull Archie Comics jumping into blood and guts, and there's probably a limit on the novelty of that. Once you've cashed in a long history of sincerity to do "Zombies/slasher villains, but with Archie" there's not really anywhere left to go, unless you have the guts to go full post-modern. Hasn't Archie been doing random crazy stuff for decades though? Like Jughead's Time Police in 1990 and Archie Meets the Punisher in 1994. The newspaper strip is as bland as possible, but I was under the impression that the regular comics were a lot less restrained.
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Tiggum posted:Hasn't Archie been doing random crazy stuff for decades though? Like Jughead's Time Police in 1990 and Archie Meets the Punisher in 1994. The newspaper strip is as bland as possible, but I was under the impression that the regular comics were a lot less restrained. I mean, kind of. Most of what they published was straight up just repeating the formula of the 50s comics, by a huge majority. There were occasional extremely odd gimmicks like the stories where Archie and Reggie turn into superpowered cape guys fighting each other, or the ones where Jughead's hat has magic powers, or even Jughead's time police, but most of what was published was just things like "Archie tries to win the snowmobile race to impress Veronica, but Reggie cheats!" or "Pop's is losing business because Jughead is into pizzas right now!"The stories where Archie and the gang have to outsmart an evil scientist or survive on a deserted island were few and far between. And more importantly, even the most out-there stories they published had the exact same safe tone as the rest of it, usually revolving around the Archie/Betty/Veronica love triangle. There certainly wasn't complicated dimensional travel, and there sure as hell wasn't any violent murder. The weird stuff was more akin to how the Flinstones got a weird wish-granting alien in the final season to spice up the formula than real departures from what the books are about. And the weirder stuff? It tended to sell very poorly compared to stories about Mr. Lodge trying to impress a client but Archie keeps breaking stuff. The stuff coming out right now is so insane it's closer to a deconstructive pastiche than it is to the regular output. And Archie meets the Punisher is just an aberration that had no right to exist or be any good.
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The real Archie comics had so much weird innuendo, there's entire tumblrs dedicated to it. http://archieoutofcontext.tumblr.com/
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Say Nothing posted:The real Archie comics had so much weird innuendo, there's entire tumblrs dedicated to it. I don't know what's weirder about that frame--that someone (Archie?) won't wear pants, or that Jughead is enraged about it. Frankly, him enraged about anything is weird.
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