#starchie

[usualgangofidiots]

MAD Super Special 18 Summer 1976

Artists: Norman Mingo, Will Elder, Jack Davis, Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood

[jhsharman]

weird mysteries

The auto generated captions at YouTube produce interesting results, don't they? Also note the "e/i", a creative use for this if there ever was one. The educational content on a "monster of the week" (day) cartoon is -- lesson learned against jealousy or something. Unless there is something to be gleaned from Dilton's techno-babble on splicing through a dna matrix in his lab? (Riverdale High lets him have a personalized lab at the school, evidently.)

An interesting enough episode. An allusion that comes hit over your head if you know it -- they re-enact the first sequence in the very first Archie story. Also at the end Riverdale's pioneering founder is identified as Bob Montana. har De har. And if I squint I can swear they have future Archie a member of a time police contraption -- narrative of the show does not make sense for Jughead to be placed there -- but that may be an accident. These make for interesting call backs, as YouTube commenters appear to show one group of people who think of the Riverdale Show as a retooling of the Archie's Weird Mysteries cartoon, and have no frame of reference beyond that.

Years before the Riverdale series, there was a goofy sketch video. It is what immediately popped into my head when I first learned Riverdale was coming on the air and the very basics of its high concept, that it would be "edgy" -- "okay, they are doing that -- basically". And to be sure, this movie teaser parody has no "Twin Peaks meet Archie" in it, so I guess not quite. But still --Everything clean cut and mundane is moved into the fantastic and gritty or edgy, everything fantastic gets the slice of life parody treatment -- or, you know, Jeffrey Brown does Darth Vader and son. Eddie Murphy has Gumby say "I'm Gumby, damnedit." Harvey Kurtzman and Bill Elder have Archie with a less than ideal family life arrangement.

And here is the stuff of parody -- the latter Riverdale lands on a piece of the former Riverdale by some crooked logic.

The first item here is marked as "most viewed" segment of the old Riverdale movie trailer parody video at youtube, as I guess you would expect, and is a few seconds tacked at the end -- purely gratuitous and disconnected from the rest -- that is the joke. It received some agitated comments in the comments section marking it against the way homosexuality was joked about with concern to Jughead. The second one apparently was at the end or toward the end of the series. I do not know what the show was doing -- like, I know they kissed on the first episode to the eye-roll of Cheryl Blossom who called out their faux-lesbian display. And I know the show runner said the last season of Riverdale was going to be its "queerest" ever -- which since they aren't about to attach Archie to Jughead probably should have been seeable as landing on that. I do not believe I would be aware of the plot twist if I were not sitting on this Tumblr page -- everything starts to have the feel of fan fiction hereabouts.

[yourfavisgreenmansexual]

Stuart “2-D” Pot from Gorillaz is Greenmansexual! He simps for Archie Sutton (fanon name) from The Powerpuff Girls Movie!

Once again Snob requested this after it had already been queued lol

[ultra-art-blog]

Yo yo yo!! I’m finally joining the Starchie bandwagon ✊💘 (I’m not much for drawing ship art but this was worth it) @uncamurdy 🎉

[garageradios-blog]

beach gays

[moms-against-gorillaz]

I drew my FAVORITE PUNK

[vinduster]

headcanon:

Archie dyes his hair every 2 weeks and 1 time, he dyes his hair blue. he shows 2d his new hair color he picked, 2d gets really happy and excited because their hair colors match

[fallenluzifer]

I know this isn’t usual for my blog but just wanted to do a quick sketch of 2Ds bf Archie