Proposing to Veronica

So, Archie Comics got everyone all worked up over the summer promising to marry off two of the industry’s most famous characters: Archie and Veronica.  Now, this shocked a lot of us because:

• He chose Veronica?
• They’re in high school.
• Nothing has changed in almost 70 years.
• He chose Veronica?

It turns out that all of these reasons were moot because it appears that this 6-part series isn’t lasting continuity but instead is a “what if” trip into possible future for our favorite ginger.

He didn’t really choose Veronica, and no one is really getting married, so nothing is really changing after all.  However, we are seeing that, apparently, regardless of whom he chooses to marry, Archie is going to help produce twins who look exactly like younger versions of their parents.

I don’t mean to bash on this series because if I said I wasn’t super excited about every issue, it would be a Liar Liar Pants on Fire Situation.  I am eating this shit up.  Even when I was pissed that he chose Veronica because there’s not much there besides money and I guess for some reason I thought eventually Archie would wise up and realize that Veronica is kind of a jerk and Betty is smart, funny, and could totally fix his car.  Which is awesome.

Anyway, the best part of this series is the Archie Comics Website because they have character blogs where Archie & Company talk about what’s going on in their lives and comment on each other’s posts.  You, the reader, can also comment.  Go to one of these blogs–any of them–and check out what happened when the news first hit that Archie would propose to Veronica.  It was SHOCKING.

flesh FLESH flesh!

In non-Archie news, you might have heard of a little series called Blackest Night.  Yeah, it’s pretty much the awesomest thing happening in comics right now if you ask me, which you didn’t, but you’re reading this so I’m kind of not worried about it.

With several issues out including crossover titles, this series is showing us once again that Geoff Johns is a master of all that is good and awesome about comics.  There’s a whole lot still to come, but I have yet to be dissatisfied with any of the issues that have come out.

Are you guys super excited about it?

We are slowly getting in the different colored rings for the different corps and they’ll be $1.00 each.  I find that wearing my rings makes me feel like a great big nerd but also like a pretty awesome person, so I’m willing to deal with the nerd part.

So that’s my mid-series update about some stuff I’ve been reading.  What about you guys?

xoxo,

Zelda