Archie Out of Context

Everything is funnier void of context... especially the citizens of Riverdale. (I do not own copyright on any of these images; credit is given where credit is known.)

[shamlesspandanerd]

[outofeverythingthisnamewasleft]

[ex-riddlecats]

does a gay little run that pisses you off

[ex-riddlecats]

[oldshowbiz]

1961.

[charlesoberonn]

This looks like a fucking parody post, or an edgy edit, but it’s 100% official real Flintstones.

[charlesoberonn]

Clarification: I don’t hate this book, I love it, it’s amazing. It’s just that taking a step back and looking it out of context is still really funny. Especially the line “We participated in a genocide, Barney.”

[femboy-fever]

ok but imagine them in their cartoon forms saying this dialogue i’m

[wondermanaging]

can we have some context to this, perhaps?

[charlesoberonn]

Bedrock is having a mayoral election. One of the candidates is a violent war mongering asshole that riles people up against the lizard people. This reminds Fred and Barney of their time in the army.

Back then the father of said violent candidate was riling people up against the “tree people”. Fred, Barney, and other soldiers fought what they believed to be a defensive measure against the tree people. Turns out, it was actually an invasion, in order to kill off the tree people and take over their forest to build Bedrock.

That’s what Fred means when he says he and Barney participated in a genocide. They literally did.

(Extra fun fact, Barney adopted a tree person baby after the war, and his son Bamm-Bamm is the last tree person.)

[connard-cynique-deactivated2024]

just fucking read it

http://readcomiconline.to/Comic/The-Flintstones

[fuocogo]

There are a lot of interesting things about this post but the AK-47 shaped spear is what really got me

[actuallyjuststealingmemes]

This is just as wild with the context

[birdscreaming15-deactivated2020]

[charlesoberonn]

Some of my favorite moments in the series

[esoteric-merit]

From the foreword to 2021 print of the comic.

[unhinged-comics-screaming]

By Mark Russell and Steve Pugh!

For more context, I really enjoy this interview they did:

DC Comics made the Flintstones sad. These geniuses are the culprits.

The creators of The Flintstones comic on bringing existential dread to Bedrock

[asteroidtroglodyte]

I have this book and every page hits like

Well. Like a boulder.

[universalhorrorblog]

[radiofreederry]

[athena-cat-wizard-official]

me logging on to tumblr

[downwarddnaspiral]

@archieoutofcontext I know this is in your wheelhouse.

[archieoutofcontext]

Thanks, @jovialfreakpiefish!

[diltondoileys]

[downwarddnaspiral]

@archieoutofcontext

[funnypages]

"Because it gets you high as fuck"

[comicshurrah]

[thebestcomicbookpanels]

Jughead does not care

[damaged-a-go-go-deactivated2026]

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Archie, America’s Typical Teen-Ager - art by Bob Montana (1952)

[funnypages]

When you're a switch and you swear you can top this time.

[liberalsarecool]

Worker solidarity is the future.

[thebestcomicbookpanels]

Betty Cooper keeps Archie quiet. Art by Dan DeCarlo