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Farewell, Archie: Beloved comic book character to die
CNN ^ | 4/8/14 | Henry Hanks

Posted on 04/08/2014 8:37:01 AM PDT by MissTed

Since 1941, comic book fans have followed the exploits of teenaged Archie Andrews and his friends. This July, they'll find out how he dies.

"Life With Archie" #36 hits stores on July 16, and CNN can reveal exclusively that it tells the story of how Archie sacrifices himself to save a friend.

Few details are known, but it seems fitting that Archie would go out a hero. The 37th issue one week later will end the series.

The "Life With Archie" series has been telling the stories of possible future Archie scenarios for the past few years, and so Archie will continue to be alive in the comics set in the present day. 14 comics that caused controversy 14 comics that caused controversy

CNN spoke with Archie Comics CEO Jon Goldwater (son of Archie creator John Goldwater) about the upcoming issues.

CNN: Can you explain the "Life With Archie" series for the uninitiated?

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Books/Literature; Humor
KEYWORDS: alternatehistory; archie; archieandrews; archiecomics; cnn; comics; fakebutaccurate; homosexualagenda; lifewitharchie; publicitystunt; rapingmychildhood
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To: Lazamataz

I always thought Betty was the hotter of the two, just like Maryann from Gilligans Island and Bailey from WKRP..


21 posted on 04/08/2014 8:55:54 AM PDT by cardinal4
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To: dfwgator
Killed while defending homosexual Jughead from hateful Glen Beck Ivan Okhlobystin fans.
22 posted on 04/08/2014 8:58:09 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: dfwgator

My God, that song is crime before God..


23 posted on 04/08/2014 9:00:18 AM PDT by cardinal4
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To: MissTed

Shot by Veronica on Mount Betty?


24 posted on 04/08/2014 9:00:57 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: dfwgator
Forgive me for asking but, who reads comic books anymore?

I'd invite you to go to places like the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle, or the BIG Comic Con in San Diego, or go to any of the dozens of comic book conventions that happen every year in the US and overseas. Talk to the people who draw them, talk to the people who run the multi-million dollar businesses that produce them...and THEN ask that question.

Contrary to popular belief, comic book fans are not fat, smelly, socially-inept Obama voters that live in their parent's basements (although, granted, some are...).

I am not trying to berate or criticize...I just believe you'd be quite surprised at who still reads comic books.

25 posted on 04/08/2014 9:03:32 AM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: null and void
Next year, the start of the ‘Zombie Archie’ series...

You beat me to it!


26 posted on 04/08/2014 9:05:51 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: hoagy62

Fair enough. And I know there are all kinds of genres of comic books....but I wonder how the older ones like Archie are doing, as opposed to some of the more modern ones.


27 posted on 04/08/2014 9:06:26 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: MissTed

Let Archie get laid first


28 posted on 04/08/2014 9:09:51 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: MissTed

Good. The series turn libtard with fag characters introduced...


29 posted on 04/08/2014 9:10:31 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: bigbob

“Shot by Veronica on Mount Betty?”

No, Betty’s been dead for years. She drowned and was found face down in Veronica Lake.


30 posted on 04/08/2014 9:10:46 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: cardinal4

The quiet ones like Betty and Mary Ann were hotter, and they have the tendency to go wild in bed too XD


31 posted on 04/08/2014 9:12:20 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: MissTed

Some people take their cartoon characters WAY too seriously.


32 posted on 04/08/2014 9:13:20 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Boo, hiss! [Very funny!]


33 posted on 04/08/2014 9:14:20 AM PDT by freepertoo
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To: dfwgator
Forgive me for asking but, who reads comic books anymore?

Sheldon Cooper, Leonard Hofsteader, Howard Wolowitz and Raj Koothrapali.

34 posted on 04/08/2014 9:15:50 AM PDT by pgkdan
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To: dfwgator

But they don’t read Archie!


35 posted on 04/08/2014 9:16:28 AM PDT by pgkdan
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To: pgkdan

And Clayton, Sidney, Muhammad and Jugdish.


36 posted on 04/08/2014 9:16:35 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Joss Whedon, Kevin smith, Nathan fillion, Wesley snipes, Zachary Snyder, Robert Rodriguez to name a few. The watchmen, sin city, and the 300 and the walking dead are all comic books.


37 posted on 04/08/2014 9:23:21 AM PDT by chae (The Lannisters send their regards--Game of Thrones)
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To: MissTed

Having a hard time seperating Archie from Scooby Doo characters.


38 posted on 04/08/2014 9:23:55 AM PDT by diverteach (If I find liberals in heaven after my death.....I WILL BE PISSED!!!)
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To: chae

But do they read comic books like Archie?


39 posted on 04/08/2014 9:24:10 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: cardinal4

“and Bailey from WKRP”

By orders of magnitude.


40 posted on 04/08/2014 9:25:54 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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