Comments on: Jughead’s Double Digest #139 Review

By: Ann Marks

Ann Marks — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:19:33 +0000

Reggie looks like some kind of southern rapist.
Archie is the same.
Betty reminds me of Ellie-May Clampett,
And Veronica doesn’t look like Veronica.
Moose (background in the first panel) looks like the Hulk, and Midge doesn’t look like Midge.
I don’t like Pop either.
And why is Dilton randomly in the background by Veronica’s head?

By: Ellia

Ellia — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:15:05 +0000

Apodaca, the old fashion is just classic Archie. They stopped progressing the fashion in the late eighties I think, because they wanted the characters to be stuck in a time slot. It wouldn’t make sense if they never age, but the rest of the world does.

By: R

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:04:38 +0000

No problems with the art, but that is some horrendous colouring right there.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:58:40 +0000

How you are managing to equate this art style with a loss of “innocence” is beyond me.

MAYBE, MAYBE you could make that argument for Butler’s art, because it seemed like it was making Betty and Veronica look like Bratz, and Bratz are weird, but this art?

It’s a cartoonish style, as well – it’s just a DIFFERENT cartoonish style. Joe Staton is about 60 years old, this isn’t some guy going for boob and ass shots here, he’s just drawing characters who have been drawn in ONE cartoonish style in a DIFFERENT cartoonish style.

Feel free to knock this style if you think it looks bad, but don’t knock Joe Staton for robbing them of their innocence. The guy draws Scooby Doo, for crissakes.

By: Tulika Dubey

Tulika Dubey — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:54:01 +0000

I think this new dynamic look sucks. I would go for the traditional look anytime..
the innocence in the characters appeal..with this new horrid makeover..they r nt innocent anymore

By: Jack Norris

Jack Norris — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:32:26 +0000

Ah, whatever, when I was a kid in the seventies Archie dressed like it was the fifties, with his sweater vest, bowties and all. Kids read it anyway, without having some kind of freakout episode over the incorrect clothing and refusing to keep reading.

By: Patrick Joseph

Patrick Joseph — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:13:37 +0000

‘What is the red broken frame in both pages?”

Looks suspiciously like the guidelines from Adobe’s InDesign page layout program.

As far as the clothes go, my daughter is 18 and her boyfriend dresses just like Archie. Or like I did in 1990. We’re in Austin, Texas, so I don’t know if we are ahead of the curve, if that’s just a “look” that kids with certain interests default to, or if the city never outgrew it’s mid-nineties hey day.

By: Tomer S

Tomer S — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:18:18 +0000

What is the red broken frame in both pages?

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:04:33 +0000

No kidding with the clothes: Archie is in a long-sleeve flannel, and Reggie is sporting a VEST? I think I dressed like that in middle school, and even then it’s time had come…

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:51:26 +0000

Jughead should just find himself a nice lesbian girl to “date.”

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:43:36 +0000

A-P-O-D-A-C-A. It’s right up there, in big type.

The trends that are being revived are from the eighties, not the sideburns and vests of the nineties. My sister’s in high school. I know what teenagers are wearing, and it’s not plaid shirts and folded-over knee socks.

By: Punch

Punch — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:20:50 +0000

Is he eating that slice backwards on the cover?

By: Cat Skyfire

Cat Skyfire — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:30:56 +0000

Fashion from over a decade ago, Adopaca? Haven’t you looked in the stores? Disturbingly enough…the fashions are coming back.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:11:42 +0000

love Joe Staton and Al Milgrom, but there is something not right with this art. I know Arch ain’t Guy Gardner, but there’s something about this…

By: Jack Norris

Jack Norris — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:20:55 +0000

That’s Joe Staton and Al Milgrom? It’s almost as sad to look at as when they made Herb Trimpe ape a Liefeldian 90s Image look.

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:25:10 +0000

I still can’t believe that the “Dynamic New Look” includes fashion from over a decade ago.

Actually, I can. It’s just another example of comic artists having no fashion sense whatsoever.