Archie #5 storytime

I know there's a Betty and Veronica book in the works. Who's working on that?

>>78724688
Adam Hughes, art and writing.

Dan Parent is working on a Kevin ongoing.

Remember when Archie was just lighthearted fun with no real continuity? Don't you just love it when a reboot misses why people liked the original?

>>78724927
The premise of going from scratch and having continuity isn't bad.
It's just that it's so overly played out and imposing melodrama that this reboot just drones on with.

>>78724955
Exactly. It's the fucking execution that bothers me more than anything. You want to add continuity to something that previously had little to none? Go right ahead. Just do it with some care and keep some of the charm of the original. This doesn't feel like an Archie book.

>>78725015
I mean, the Jughead book is closer to the mark, but people have made some valid points against that too (Jughead's more proactive and less never may care nature, the intrusion of the day dreams meaning to be call backs to the short comics but feeling more out of place)...but Waid really takes the cake on missing the mark.

Is there a time where people dont hate Reggie?

I am quite enjoying this. I love me some Veronica and she's always at her best as a kind of villain.

So who was this book made for? Like it can't be fans of the old Archie because this is nothing like that.

>>78724876
I really want to know how Chip Zdarsky became a comics meme

is it the name?

>>78729038
He writes the Howard The Duck and Jughead ongoings.

>>78729038
>>78729640
yes its the name and how cons would mispell it. and he got his "start" with sex criminals and talking to applebee's online.

>>78728365
It seems to try to reach people who hate Archie but people who hate Archie aren't going to read Archie no matter how they dress it up. So basically, this exists to piss off Archiefags.

>>78724876
>5'10''
>manlet

>>78725088
I thought the reboot got off to a very good start, but it's definitely been slipping pretty quickly.

I still quite like the new Jughead thus far, but this is losing me.

I think I've finally figured it out.
This reminds me of a bastard cross between Saved by the Bell and Malcolm in the Middle.

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>>78725886
Reggie was never really 'hated' in most of the original stories, he was just a prankster and a loudmouth who always got beat up by Moose because he couldn't keep his eyes off Midge.

I've read Archie comics since I was a kid and I'm actually kind of sick of these recent reboots and alternate universe stories turning him into an outright villain. Same with Veronica almost always being in full bitch mode in these new stories.

>>78736314
Yeah, Reggie has been pretty shit in Afterlife and in Waid Archie.

He was pretty great in Life with Archie though.

>>78729038
>>78729640
>>78730622
He's the male equivalent of a woman sleeping her way to the top of a corporate ladder, only instead of sex he probably just sticks around and nags people until they give him a job to keep him out of their hair.

>>78736816
>Life with Archie
>Miss Grundy dies
>All the Riverdale gang reminiscence about her
>Reggie recalls the time she called him a scumbag and he better shape up before he becomes truly hated

It was shocking, but yeah, sometimes the best truths are harsh truths

Archie has never been good. If this upsets you you're a fucking idiot and child

>>78724935
>"Reggie serves the universe best as an obnoxious ass with few redeeming qualities"

fuck off waid. reggie was a jerk sure, but he did actually care for his friends.

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>>78724682
I don't remember Reggie being THAT bad. I mean yeah, he was an asshole, I don't think he ever went to irredeemable cunt levels.

>>78741172
see>>78724935

>"Reggie serves the universe best as an obnoxious ass with few redeeming qualities"

thats what waid thinks of him

>>78743233
So his solution is just to Flanderize everyone? Goddammit Waid.

>>78745303
yes. he also hates veronica.

>>78724746
>Adam Hughes, art and writing.
So that's never coming out, then.

>>78745303
It's sad when Archie characters of all things are too nuanced for a writer.

>>78745394
I kinda hope at least a couple issues of that can get squeezed out before this whole reboot runs its course, which I suspect it will in a year or two.

I love Adam Hughes's art style, and would be able to enjoy actually being able to read something that it's attached to.

>>78746824
>or two
>implying there won't be a relaunch after Civil War II: Consequences Will Never Be The Same-er