ARCHIE COMICS

WHAT JUST HAPPENED?

Well I just heard, the news today,
seems my life, is about to change....(Creed, Arms Wide Open)

DON'T READ FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILED....


YOU'VE BEEN WARNED....


Archie comics...heard of them?


It's been 70 years....

Archie has been torn between Betty and Veronica (he was with B first, then V at the same time...hard to explain...goes back and forth between them as the other seethes in jealousy before the pendulum swings back in their direction):






Archie and Betty:


Archie and Veronica (*fail*):



So when I heard the news today (I know, I'm really plugging this lyric but bear with me), I let out a battle cry unlike any that has been heard in my house in a long time (well...since I heard last year the latest Potter movie had been moved to July of this year). Seriously. I sounded like Zena the Warrior Princess. And if I had the ability, I'd pull Veronica out of the comic strip, put her in the real world, and place Betty in front of Archie so he can propose to HER as he should have.

What happened to the years and years of commitment with Betty. The strong and beautiful connection and relationship they had? (I feel like an idiot for being this passionate, but I basically grew up on this comic and I can't even fathom how this decision...how it happened). Veronica has barely got anything beyond fluff and a few rolls of $1000 bills in her brain. Betty is commitment, decency, compassion, THE soul mate, and YES she's even pretty too. Sure she doesn't pander to "what's in" with fashion, but she wears what she wants and she is might great in her outfits.

It might seem a bit dramatic to some folks that this is the reaction I would have, but I assure you I cannot be the only one.

The decision is (in my humble opinion), EPIC FAIL (as they say on live journal). It's such epic fail, that I can't even begin to process how it happened.


ARCHIE PROPOSED TO VERONICA. That's right, Veronica is going to be his wife.


Here's how the comic cover (which reveals all)looks:




Before I go, let's just take a moment of silence (to remember what could have been....