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Vampironica #1

Leaving the audience wanting more is one thing, but leaving them unsatisfied, while sadly all too commonplace these days, is quite another.

While Marvel and DC have been thundering along with their usual succession of “Nothing Will Ever Be The Same Again – No, We MEAN It This Time!” events, one comics publisher has been quietly introducing permanent and significant changes. But this risky makeover is not without its downside…

Bad Fag-Hag! Bad!

Maybe it doesn’t mean the same in the US?

Stan Goldberg, 1932-2014

An appreciation of one of the definitive teen-humour and Archie Comics artists and long-time illustrator of Millie the Model, Stan Goldberg, who passed away on 31 August, 2014.

Life With Archie 36

Archie has been a total lying dick. For the thick end of a century.

Archie’s choice? New cosmetics line evokes classic dilemma

Appropriately for the month of Valentine’s Day, the MAC cosmetics company chose February to launch its new line of comics-related cosmetics.

Archie’s World Tour

Put it this way; how would our American chums feel if a British writer depicted a tour group in 2008’s New York, using subway tokens (obsolete since 2003) to go to visit the twin towers of the World Trade Centre (famously destroyed in 2001)? I daresay they’d be miffed.

Archie 616 & 617

Alex Simmons is in the wrong job. Judging from the evidence in these two issues, he could make a lot of money as a spin doctor for America’s Republican Party.

Veronica 202

It was with surprise, and not a little scepticism, that people heard the news that Archie Comics would be introducing their first openly gay character in Veronica #202.

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