Yes, yes it does: it has "Serial Rapist" written all over it with a glow-in-the-dark sharpie.Starke said:
Veronica Leaves Archie for Openly Gay Character
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*giggles incessantly* Ok, It's official...Archie has yaoi potential! *gets shot*KeyMaster45 said:I'll say it now because its going to be said eventually...*sigh*
Hur hur, he can eat more meat than jug head
Now that that's out of the way. I'm glad to see even a staple reminder of the 50's is making the effort to join the new reality we live in. Kudos to the makers of Archie comics for trying to teach the next generation more tolerance than the last
But seriously, it's about time it updated...sheesh...
No.Tom Goldman said:
No!
NO!
NOOOO!!
NIEN!!
NYET!!
IMPOSSIBLE, BLASPHEMOUS TO SAY THE LEAST!! JUGHEAD IS BURGER GOD!!
However, I could take the rest of that comic two ways.
1: Read it for the situational and comedic value.
2: Get pissed off because they want to increase sales with an edgier approach, with no real care for this new character.
Maybe both?
Judging by the strip's wonderfully stereotypical portrayal of female characters, particularly Veronica there (shallow whore much?) I'm not holding out much hope for a non offensive gay character.
Apparently I'm a robot beaver (that sounds remarkably inappropriate).
However, I still think it's cool that a piece of mainstream mainstream media like this is supporting gays. Granted, the storyline sounds pretty stupid, but I guess that's to be expected of Americans (after all, we're responsible for Modern Warfare 2).
However, I still think it's cool that a piece of mainstream mainstream media like this is supporting gays. Granted, the storyline sounds pretty stupid, but I guess that's to be expected of Americans (after all, we're responsible for Modern Warfare 2).
Therumancer said:Well, Riverdale isn't really supposed to be a city as I understand things. Rather it's supposed to be a small or mid-sized town or suberb where time more or less stands still.Trevor Cooper said:Which begs the question... why is Riverdale (newly "progressive" city) the only city in the world that has no minorities what so ever. I mean, to the best of MY knowledge, I've never seen anyone with a pigment darker than Khaki.Therumancer said:I've read Archie. I think everyone goes through that phase a bit.
Once you start opening up the door to toss in one minority group, you wind up with increasing questions from other minorities like "hey why isn't there a character like me?" at which point you wind up with a bunch of extraneous characters.
And to comment on the "new gay kid" story, seriously watch Chasing Amy.
It's all laid out for you... There has been a TON of homosexual undertones through-out Archies existence.
-T
There HAVE been minorities and such in Archie, but admittedly not as major characters. It is pretty "whitebread" overall, but then again it started publication in 1939 I believe. To be honest it has had racist fingers pointed at it (as have shows like Buffy The Vampire Slayer, though that gets into another whole discussion) but it's no worse than TV shows or movies with an all black cast or whatever. The majority is simply treated differantly when it comes to such things.
As far as homosexual undercurrents in Archie, I disagree strongly. Part of the reason why I am making this arguement is that the whole thing is supposed to be innocent. On some levels it's odd that something so seemingly boring continued on in consistant publication as long as it has, but I digress. People can take something like Archie and "read into" things jokingly very easily. Sort of like how people can point to "undercurrents of homosexuality" in say Batman. This is especially true when you look at something with a very long publication run and ignore things like time frame. There are entire galleries dedicated to old comics and how easy it is to take them out of context given modern attitudes. Not just sexually, but in general. The site "Superdickery" for example roasts Superman with his own material something awful.
Of course it can also be pointed out that people have taken jokes based on misintepetation a bit further at times. For example "Penthouse Comix" once ran an Archie parody called "Pets" drawn by some of the same artists which if I remember had Veronica and Midge as dominatrixs and some other stuff, which was both pretty graphic, and also very funny if you've read Archie specifically because of how innocent it was and some things could be "run with" in odd directions.
The point is that Archie should stay out of politics, and trying to introduce "edgy" characters and such. That's not the kind of escapism it provides. Sort of like how at one point they did a bit with "The Punisher" going to Riverdale and going insane due to the innocent naivity of the place (he was looking for a Drug dealer if I remember). Hack/Slash did the same thing though they used an equivilent as opposed to literally using Riverdale, but were looking for a slasher.
To put things into perspective, when your dealing with a series where it's out of character to even have a drug dealer, or someone puffing a joint for that matter, I really don't think it's the place to start trying to insert homosexuality into the mix.
Sooo... Yeah, I was kidding. To be honest, I really didn't care about the goings-on of Archie.