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07-14-2014, 03:10 PM
Who cares? I don't know too many people who actually read Archie anyway.
Much like all comics, there's probably some magical way that he's not really dead.
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07-14-2014, 03:14 PM
I see this more as Millenial Guys designing and writing stories like women.
One of the things I hate about reading fiction by women, is the main female characters tend to be over-the-top perfect. You get a lot of descriptions of their shy, cute smiles, tiny waists, perky breasts, and if you're curious about their eye colour, don't worry, you'll hear about it in great detail.
They have no realistic human flaws, and, most likely, every other character will adore them and, strangely, have no autonomous life of their own, but focus around supporting the main character and wanting to hear about their trite relationship troubles in great detail. All the main characters will be in love with them, and the fatter the writer, the more over-the-top perfect the character will be.
That's all this is.
Well-rounded characters have positive and negative traits. Look at the supporting cast of Archie that I can remember off-hand.
Jughead - obsessed with food
Veronica - snobby, shallow
Reggie - smartass, prankster, troublemaker
Moose - dumb
Betty - hopelessly naïve
Meanwhile, look at the gay character's description and the perfection boxes he ticks:
Keller is a married - see he's just like you and me, and not into parties, drugs an anonymous sex! - military veteran - he loves his country and will fight for it omg so brave! - and newly elected senator - everyone loves him enough to elect an out gay man - who's pushing for more gun control - so much concern for social justice, what a GOOD PERSON - in Riverdale after his husband was involved in a shooting - over the top tragic backstory, which chicks love.
No realistic human flaws = yawn.
There were mainly girls living on my street when I was a kid, and I observed or was roped into playing with them enough that I know how their fantasy games pan out. Their immature fantasies always involved death, and usually played out in two ways:
- The 'perfect' character she's playing dies, and there has to be a funeral, and everyone has to cry and wail over her because they loved her so much. I think this is why so many teenage twits fantasies involve killing themselves because then everyone will be sorry and realise how much they loved them.
- The main character almost dies, but is save by someone sacrificing their life for them, because they love them so much that their life is meaningless compared to the main, perfect character's continued existence.
This seemed to hold greater power to them than fantasies of meeting a handsome prince. Go figure. More drama, I guess.
Immature fantasies of unrealistically perfect characters who succeed despite excessive drama in their background = every fan fiction on Tumblr. The Archie People know their audience.
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"Archie" dies taking a bullet for gay friend
07-14-2014, 05:44 PM
Pure BS, this is my favorite line of comics... I used to use it in Mexico to teach kids English... I used to use HARRY POTTER to teach kids until JK retard said that dumblord was gay... wtf, can't these people leave that shit out of things. Comics like Archie were made for kids 5 to 7 yearsold.
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"Archie" dies taking a bullet for gay friend
07-14-2014, 05:49 PM
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"The way in which Archie dies is everything that you would expect of Archie," said Jon Goldwater, Archie Comics publisher and co-CEO.
Indeed. I often thought to myself 30 some years ago when reading Archie for shits and giggles that it would be awfully cool if Archie died a social justice warrior.
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"Archie" dies taking a bullet for gay friend
07-14-2014, 07:45 PM
I actually think that comic is making fun of the Mary Sue trope
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07-15-2014, 05:21 AM
I read the article, its a spinoff where archie and pals are all adults where he gets killed, so its just alternate reality archie dying not the main comic line...no big deal. It has about as much impact on the "Canon" of archie as the following:
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07-15-2014, 05:36 AM
Man, the last time my characters/stories were this inane was when I was playing a play-by-post Star Wars RPG game at the tender age of 12.
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07-15-2014, 06:36 AM
Damn, I used to like Archie because it was a fun read (when I was a pre-teen). Just a bunch of high-school kids trying to have fun. Blue-pill but funny and feel-good.
Sad to see it end this way with a not-so-hidden political agenda. They're really trying to brainwash kids these days. If there is a NWO, I wonder what they're planning fr the future. If there isn't, I wonder why no one is calling out this BS.