legacy

[kianamaiart]

[eulaties]

MARRIED KATAANG YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS!!!!!!!!

[jhsharman]

"Dress Mess" "pet patter" "prize praise"

A couple more instances with Veronica parading in front of Betty. The first she, I guess, is just fishing for a compliment, the second has her preparing for a winter trip to the tropics. A sign of the dysfunction in the relation, though, is shown when Betty fishes for compliments from Veronica --

Nothing but insults. Veronica just toys with Betty.

Note though Archie gets horny enough. On that score, the dynamic there plays as it does with Veronica.

[jhsharman]

A Fair Shake

Any number of people in an artistic field can tell you they don't know the difference between assassins and critics.

[jhsharman]

snow bored

Bizarre move of word balloon in third panel -- now it looks like the random walker by girl is the one answering Archie's question.

Whassup What's Up

[jhsharman]

"neighbor labor"

[jhsharman]

Java Trouble

Actually can't figure what the line down Betty's sweater is. It matches nothing in the rest of the story.

Adam Hughes returns to the premise of Veronica opening up a coffee shop in that series people apparently didn't like.

[jhsharman]

Pet Parade

Weird is out. Animal hoarders were complaining.

And because weird is out:

Yeah. Trying to expand the universe to other comic book companies. They had Jughead rewritten to make a Batman reference, now Archie brings in Spiderman. It's on the big screen, so I guess it is top of mind, but still -- exactly from where does he drag out "radioactive"? Not really intuitive, is it?

[jhsharman]

Pet Parade

Weird is out. Animal hoarders were complaining.

And because weird is out:

Yeah. Trying to expand the universe to other comic book companies. They had Jughead rewritten to make a Batman reference, now Archie brings in Spiderman. It's on the big screen, so I guess it is top of mind, but still -- exactly from where does he drag out "radioactive"? Not really intuitive, is it?

[jhsharman]

library checkout

[jhsharman]

"The Sub", "Zest Quest"

[jhsharman]

"Swing Thing" "Hot Wheels" "Ambush" "Hubba Hubba Betty"

Veronica is a bad influence on Betty --

Shifting depiction on a dynamic for Betty and Veronica's relationship. Between that 1947 panel and the 70s and 80s panels, they aren't working as a team and are separate and competitive. As an example:

We will see how Oni Press handles the dynamics ...

And I guess it makes sense that the habit Veronica has had of previewing outfits for Betty, giving her first dibs before the boys, predates when she brings her in on it.

[jhsharman]

"Pardon My Computer"

Funny thing. To spell out "an IBM Machine" is to say "an International Business Machines Machine". In a change made at some point three decades or so back, IBM actually now officially stands for nothing -- it is just three letters. Maybe there is a metaphor in that -- I do not know.

The word "computer" apparently does not spring to mind in 1962. Had it, we could have solved that redundancy problem. This makes that change to IBN all the more perplexing -- because had they dropped that change in the first place, that too would solve the two machines rubbing against each other trouble.

[jhsharman]

bare necessities

Mexico has to reiterate a "wherever we are".

The basic premise for the gag does become a recurrent but moves off of girls in general to Veronica specifically -- which strikes me as better.

[jhsharman]

The Chompion

This story has been ret-conned into the universe where Betty has a cat named Caramel (or Carmel if she talks quickly) and not into the universe where her cat is Max.

Sound effect added.

[rararibbon]

[davros42]

When old comics age extremely well.

[davros42]

We have an update on the situation.