It turns out that Archie’s wedding to Veronica ripped off the gimmick from season eight of Dallas (which, of course, ripped off The Wizard of Oz): It was all a dream.

In Veronica #202 (carrying a November 2010 cover date), Veronica Lodge falls for “the hot new guy” in town. Except Kevin Keller, the hot new guy in question, is gay. Hijinks ensue. Back in May, I blogged about Archie’s first interracial kiss, and the fact that it really wasn’t that big a deal. There was […]

Back in the day (that day being 1968), Kirk and Uhura gave the teevee public the second interracial kiss (see it here), and it caused something of a brouhaha. The first interracial kiss on U.S. teevee, by the way, was not that bit from Star Trek, as is so often reported, but rather Sammy Davis […]

How do you makeover a 65-year-old American institution to be more relevant and contemporary? That’s the interesting challenge facing the folks over at Archie Comics. Here’s a Wall Street Journal article about what’s going on and here’s a good blog post about it all (via longtime comics pro Mark Evanier).

This is anything but a comics blog, but Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead, Reggie and the rest of the good folks of Riverdale have been noted by LOHAD on occasion. After all, Archie is undeniably one of America’s best-known pop culture brands, and the way that brand is being marketed and handled should be of interest […]