Dear Blogger,
Please enjoy this sneak peak of upcoming material from Archie Comic Publications, Inc.
Archie & Friends meet president obama
President Obama has asked teens to volunteer and Veronica Lodge, the richest girl in comics, has stepped forward to answer the call.
Looky who's enlisted in President Obama's voluntarism program. Blech. I liked Archie comics when I was a kid in Germany and we didn't have TV so we read a lot - books and comic books.
Now the creeping feel-goody crap propaganda (as opposed, to, say, mindless entertaining drivel that they used to be) is infecting the comics. Oh, I know it's been there. Stan Lee over at Marvel can't restrain himself, and hasn't been able to for decades. Still it's sad to have a publicist send you a note pushing this drivel (no knock on the publicist, that's her job and she got me to put it up, yes?) only to have it make you remember when comics were just fun (at least the ones I read). It's like Saturday morning cartoons - once they were great fun, now they're either 30 minute product commericals or treacly crap
Learn to salute, Veronica. Sheesh. Poseur.
You know, with his CROTCH SALUTE and ALL.
Feh, now I'm in an ugly mood.... <snarl>
Sanger - happy to get yer juices roilin'
Ok, well, yeah.... And thanks for that memory! I hand't thought about the HT since forever.... And I also like the MetalMen, though I don't think that was DC. And Green lantern....
BUT none of those other sissy mags..... grrr
And AFSis, that isn't how I REALLY feel' cause I left out the 'cuss words. :-)
I like boobies... :)
!!!Danger!!! Will Robinson !!!Danger!!!
ClosetSalute, the more it looks like that of The Young Pioneers.Could she be a fellow commarade?
daire...deria...heinie...BUTTS.Just an observation.
"I hate you, you hate me.
Let's go out and shoot Barney.
With a shotgun blast old Barney hits the floor.
No more purple dinosaur."
Scansion's a bit strained, but, hey, they WERE little people at the time.
And anyway, why does V have her eyes closed....and why isn't she looking at O. Figure the artist can't to that kind of positional drawing yet...
BTW, my favorite war comic was Sgt Fury (later N.F. of Shield....). Of course, with the current movie franchise, it'd be hard for them to do WWII flashbacks to him as platoon sgt, eh.... They'd have to have Gabe & Reb be race-reversed (unless it's the Marvel Ultimate Alternate universe, I suppose--and anything is better than Hasslehof as NF)....
As for comic books, Daddy would also get those. He'd pick up the Disney ones: Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Uncle Scrooge, that sort of thing. But, my brother & I couldn't read them until Daddy had ;-)
Betty went campaigning for Sarah Palin, and does SHE get a comic book issue?? Nooooo. of course not. (and she even had Maryann from Gilligan's Island along too)
"I say, I say boy! You don't want A chicken...you want A dowg!"
*you thought I was gonna say Popeye, dincha?*
Yes John he loves loves boobs and butts and legs and well possibly pregnancy with his politics. I wonder if there's a picture of Pelosi-Pallin pr0n just itching to get out of his pen thereby heralding an new age of political B grade horror. I will grant you his is not pretending to be anything other than political.
RetRsvMike: "Betty went campaigning for Sarah Palin" News to me, is there a link?
$2.50 for a *comic* book? Suckers used to cost a *dime*!
What's next, two billion bucks for an airplane?
Oh, wait...
As for me I happen to like the political toon that heads up your main page. Some of the imagery reminds me of Heavy Metal magazine in the '70s. Now that was a comic book.
Or - a la 1965 NBC censors- does the sight of the female navel send you into vapors? :)
Bill, that's why I got out of comics collection a while back. When regular comics started hitting the $1 barrier, I bailed. Same number of pages, same production values, but 'way higher price. Feh.
One may argue that independent comics producers can't reproduce similar economies of scale, so that $1/issue might become acceptable, given a good quality product, such as Groo, or Alien Legion.
Either way I don't specifically hate the cartoon. It would be more accurate to say I think it's crap, ie a waste of time/rubbish. If i hated it, I would reenable adblocking here.
Argent - Shhhhh!!!! I'm selling ads now (it pays reporter expenses) - what you said is... is... BAD! [Looks worriedly over shoulder] Move along BAE folks, there's nothing to see here [glares at Argent].
But, if John vouches for you, and says my POV is skewed, that's a fair go from where I stand. :)
John, I do not have some sort of soft-core fascination with Chris Muir's work, even I if I do have a thing for half-clad busty redheads. After all, he's never drawn Christina Hendricks. Yet. {heavy sigh}
Hey. I read daybyday for the articles, mister, thankyouverymuch.
That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it...
John BAE is a lot better than the junk usually found on websites, even those that are relatively clean.