spman: Every time I see those Archie Digest comics at the checkout, I always wonder who the hell still buys them and reads them. Is there still an audience for Archie, or is it like the comics in the paper like Family Circus or Hi and Lois that everyone hates, but it would seem strange without them?

This.

/Didn't think Archie was still around.

//Betty.

Principal Clarinet: Sounds like another CEO acting like a bully, making her employees work in fear.

She needs to be sent to Mr. Weatherbee's office.

I like how the case was built against her. When you get a lot of employee complaints, that's one thing. When you hire a third-party HR firm to come in and say 'there is a problem, and that problem is you' to the point of filing a restraining order, that means you're dealing with someone and their mental disorder. Especially when she thinks it's a 'smear campaign.'

spman: Every time I see those Archie Digest comics at the checkout, I always wonder who the hell still buys them and reads them. Is there still an audience for Archie, or is it like the comics in the paper like Family Circus or Hi and Lois that everyone hates, but it would seem strange without them?

There might be a few comic book companies out there that would buy the rights simply to have them, and to have access to the catalog of material that they could resell/repackage in some ways. It's not like Archie is a big moneymaker, but having the rights to the character could easily pay off the purchase cost and offer up a leg-up into more publishing ventures directed towards a few demographics (nostalgia for adults, something cheesy for kids to usher them into normal comics).

The only value Archie really has is being sold at this point, and the other people in charge probably don't want a crazy co-CEO devaluing their payout.

The day that somebody tells me that I can't refer to male employees as "penises" or be randomly abusive and violent at work, well that's the day that I quit. It just wouldn't be worth the commute anymore.

Why can't she be fired?

jdawg3k: Why can't she be fired?

Well... she might get mad. And then ... things might happen. And she'd get even more mad. And that would be bad. So don't make her mad, okay? Maybe shoot her in her sleep or something? Too bad she never sleeps. She's too mad to sleep ....

Archie is the largest selling comic there is simply because it is at your supermarket instead of going to the comic store. Parents remember it fondly so they let their kids buy it, and kids don't know/care what crap is.

Did she end up beating off three guys or something?

TheManofPA: Did she end up beating off three guys or something?

No, she was just large and pointing.

CEO Nancy Silverclit


WHAR? WHAR PICS?

Guntram Shatterhand: Principal Clarinet: Sounds like another CEO acting like a bully, making her employees work in fear.

She needs to be sent to Mr. Weatherbee's office.

I like how the case was built against her. When you get a lot of employee complaints, that's one thing. When you hire a third-party HR firm to come in and say 'there is a problem, and that problem is you' to the point of filing a restraining order, that means you're dealing with someone and their mental disorder. Especially when she thinks it's a 'smear campaign.'

spman: Every time I see those Archie Digest comics at the checkout, I always wonder who the hell still buys them and reads them. Is there still an audience for Archie, or is it like the comics in the paper like Family Circus or Hi and Lois that everyone hates, but it would seem strange without them?

There might be a few comic book companies out there that would buy the rights simply to have them, and to have access to the catalog of material that they could resell/repackage in some ways. It's not like Archie is a big moneymaker, but having the rights to the character could easily pay off the purchase cost and offer up a leg-up into more publishing ventures directed towards a few demographics (nostalgia for adults, something cheesy for kids to usher them into normal comics).

The only value Archie really has is being sold at this point, and the other people in charge probably don't want a crazy co-CEO devaluing their payout.

I disagree. Archie is the only 'main' company being sold via non-direct distribution. They make money because they're cheap and you can find them anywhere. Also, more than DC or Marvel, Archie has been more active at modernizing their product and characters in the past decade. To DC and Marvel, 'modernizing' means repackaging the same shiat in shiny new gift wrap. Marvel may have had a gay character first, but Archie was the first company to make a gay character integrated into the comic rather than feeling like the choice was picked at random the way Northstar was. Also, Archie went to digital distribution a year or two before either Marvel or DC.

The other reason why Archie remains viable is that Marvel and DC are too focused on 'capes and cowls', and the elitist fan base that yell at them to make only those stories. Archie is an option for people that enjoy the comics medium, but don't necessarily like superheroes or are burnt out on them. Also, they're really the only comics these days suitable for kids under 12.

2wolves: Principal Clarinet: Sounds like another CEO acting like a bully, making her employees work in fear.

She needs to be sent to Mr. Weatherbee's office.

for a good spanking.


Like this?

(Cartoon bare bottoms, NSFW - new window)


/ thank you sir, may I have another?

18 or so posts and nobody noticed this?

FTFA: "an attorney representing co-CEO Jon Goldwater recently told The Daily News that Silberkleit had also visited the Archie offices last December accompanied by a former player for the NFL's Baltimore Colts team."

What is the dance of the week?

RoyFokker'sGhost: Guntram Shatterhand: Principal Clarinet: Sounds like another CEO acting like a bully, making her employees work in fear.

She needs to be sent to Mr. Weatherbee's office.

I like how the case was built against her. When you get a lot of employee complaints, that's one thing. When you hire a third-party HR firm to come in and say 'there is a problem, and that problem is you' to the point of filing a restraining order, that means you're dealing with someone and their mental disorder. Especially when she thinks it's a 'smear campaign.'

spman: Every time I see those Archie Digest comics at the checkout, I always wonder who the hell still buys them and reads them. Is there still an audience for Archie, or is it like the comics in the paper like Family Circus or Hi and Lois that everyone hates, but it would seem strange without them?

There might be a few comic book companies out there that would buy the rights simply to have them, and to have access to the catalog of material that they could resell/repackage in some ways. It's not like Archie is a big moneymaker, but having the rights to the character could easily pay off the purchase cost and offer up a leg-up into more publishing ventures directed towards a few demographics (nostalgia for adults, something cheesy for kids to usher them into normal comics).

The only value Archie really has is being sold at this point, and the other people in charge probably don't want a crazy co-CEO devaluing their payout.

I disagree. Archie is the only 'main' company being sold via non-direct distribution. They make money because they're cheap and you can find them anywhere. Also, more than DC or Marvel, Archie has been more active at modernizing their product and characters in the past decade. To DC and Marvel, 'modernizing' means repackaging the same shiat in shiny new gift wrap. Marvel may have had a gay character first, but Archie was the first company to make a gay character integrated into the comic rather than feeling lik ...

Did you just try to make a point about Archie comics being more modern than the Big Two? Really? The comic about an indecisive teen dealing with two female stereotypes that has been going on since 1941?? And it's supposedly modern because there's a gay character now?

I'll back you on the 'it's cheap and everywhere so $$' statement, but don't tell me that farking Archie is more modernized than anything else. It's up there with Lil Abner and Mary Worth in the stagnant comics pond. Archie is the living embodiment of creative inertia.

Hell, the Archie newspaper comic has just been rerunning strips from the '80s and '90s ever since the strip artist passed away a couple years ago.

Guntram Shatterhand:

As opposed to the "Hey, sales are down. What do we do? Let's reboot the universe" creativity of Marvel and DC? Or "Sales are down, what do we do? Let's kill off a character and bring them back next year" creativity? Or any number of a hundred ways that Marvel and DC recycle and shovel the same crap they've been doing for the past 30 years? The Big Two embody creative inertia just as well.

Guntram Shatterhand:
Did you just try to make a point about Archie comics being more modern than the Big Two? Really? The comic about an indecisive teen dealing with two female stereotypes that has been going on since 1941?? And it's supposedly modern because there's a gay character now?

I'll back you on the 'it's cheap and everywhere so $$' statement, but don't tell me that farking Archie is more modernized than anything else. It's up there with Lil Abner and Mary Worth in the stagnant comics pond. Archie is the living embodiment of creative inertia.

You'd be surprised. Go back and look through Archie comics. They tend to be very political, and not in the crazy conservative way everyone imagines. They were pro women's rights, and actually did a very nice bit on the punk movement back in the day.

While I admit I haven't picked up an Archie in a while, they're always there. My great grandmother read them, my grandmother read them, my mother read them, and I read them, and my daughter will read them too.

Also, Archie comics owns the Sabrina comics as well, and Sabrina was very popular a while back. Scarily, insanely popular.

Just wanted to point out that Archie Comics also does Sonic the Hedgehog, so you got the furry zealot demographic involved there too.

JonZoidberg: 18 or so posts and nobody noticed this?

FTFA: "an attorney representing co-CEO Jon Goldwater recently told The Daily News that Silberkleit had also visited the Archie offices last December accompanied by a former player for the NFL's Baltimore Colts team."

So either the player has been retired for at least 30 years, or there's some validity to the above comment of this article being a good many years old.

Okay, guys. Make this thread worth existing. Commence with the Archieporn.

That's awesome.

Don't call me a penis, you coont.

spman: Every time I see those Archie Digest comics at the checkout, I always wonder who the hell still buys them and reads them. Is there still an audience for Archie, or is it like the comics in the paper like Family Circus or Hi and Lois that everyone hates, but it would seem strange without them?

My daughter used to buy them up until a couple of years ago when they made the switch to the "modernized" (computer generated) format. They used to be stupid but classic - now they're just stupid.