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In the “A doctor and a mechanic?” picture, Archie doesn’t just look like he’s from the Sopranos, he looks like a Dick Tracy villain. He sort of looks like someone chopped his head in half horizontally, then slid the top half a half inch to the left.

And man, that closeup of the faces of Archie and Veronica looks like some kind of science fiction accident involving a teleportation device. Or maybe the Toxic Avenger is experiencing asexual reproduction.

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Wow, you wouldn’t know it was the same artist at all. And I agree that the new art is pretty universally terrible — to me it looks like he’s trying to draw scenes that are more complex than he’s comfortable with, honestly.

As for the jowls thing, in the collage image, nearly every example is a drawing of a 3/4 from the back view, and it’s traditional to see the cheekbone like that, from that angle. I mean, he’s done a crappy job of it, but it is more or less correct.

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solid snake said on August 20th, 2009 at 10:30 am

Of course what Archie’s dad does not realize is that it is not a graduation gown. Archie is just on his way to a special bar he knows about.

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FifthSurprise said on August 20th, 2009 at 10:33 am

Isn’t it obvious?

All the physical facial deformities and missing feet and whatnot are easy to explain.
Betty Cooper enacts vigilante justice on anyone who she has perceived as coming in between her and Archie. But she makes it look like an accident.

The insane jowls of doom just come from years of drinking soda at the Chok’lit Shoppe. Besides the years and memories there, those floats have enough sugar to induce diabetic shock in the uninitiated. Also Betty Cooper probably tries to spike the drinks there so that people develop an addiction (beyond the sugar one that is) because the place is a holy tribute church to Archie (when she’s not at home).

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Is he doing the inks himself?

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Lister Sage said on August 20th, 2009 at 11:08 am

Is this one of those cases were an artist who really doesn’t do any steady art any more is brought back to do a special issue or has Goldberg been drawing Archie steadily since whenever he started?

Because if he hasn’t done it in a while it may partially explain why everything looks off kilter. If that’s not the case then I would have to assume he was either lazy or rushed when he did it.

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Andrew Jeanes said on August 20th, 2009 at 11:21 am

Also, did anybody notice that the letterer misspelled separate as “seperate?”

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I Called It!

Step 1 of Archie’s master plan is in action. He’s mutating the populace, starting with the women. With no where else in the world for these poor people to go, they will only be able find work and residence in Riverdale and now Archie is connecting himself legally to the captain of Riverdale’s industry my marrying his daughter.

No longer is Archie content to play with the lives of his classmates. Now he’s setting his sights on controlling the entire town. He’s set himself up as Riverdale’s own Dagon.

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equinox216 said on August 20th, 2009 at 11:57 am

That lame-ass ‘heal a car’ line has stricken me with a vision: I now want to see Stephen King’s “Christine” done as a graphic novel, starring Dilton.

“One of Christine’s headlights had been shattered. Another flickered unsteadily off and on, bleared with a thin wash of Moose’s blood. The grille had been bent inward, and the dents in it approximated the shape and size of Moose’s torso with all the gruesome perfection of a deathmask.”

We could even keep the current artist, since all the characters already look like they’ve been run over by a ’57 Plymouth Fury.

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In the “KILL IT WITH FIRE” panel, Betty reminded me of Miss Piggy. Then I realized that, in their dealings with reluctant love interests, they are both BATSHIT INSANE.
Coincidence? I think not.

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Holy crap, Betty looks just like John Travolta in the kill it with fire panel!

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Methinks you’ve stumbled across the solution to the Archie marries Veronica plot — that’s not really Archie but Mel Jay (aka Montana Bob aka Freckles aka Red Fever) from the epic ARCHIE MEETS THE PUNISHER comic! Mel Jay was one of the few gangsters to ever escape the Punisher’s lethal vengence (he was last seen floating away dangling from a giant Macy’s Thanksgiving balloon of the Shield.

It’s all making sense now…but then that means Ronnie’s been sharing a honeymoon with…ugh…

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Damn. That’s just sad on a whole number of different levels.

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DistantFred said on August 20th, 2009 at 6:58 pm

Lister Sage: He’s never really stopped. He just started to draw worse some years back, probably because he’s been drawing these same characters since like, 1963, and is overdue for retirement.

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I remember having this same reaction when I flipped through it at my local shop. “Oh right, Archie proposes, let’s see how this–Oh my God, what the hell is wrong with Veronica’s face?”

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Some folks around the internet call that side expression that you highlight a “porn face”. Because really, the expression is screaming “phallic object goes where?”

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Dr. Shoggoth said on August 21st, 2009 at 1:53 pm

Does anyone remember that Twilight Zone episode “Eye of the Beholder”, where the one they all consider freakish is a normal woman and everyone else is a deformed, pig-snouted monster?

Judging by the art, Stan Goldberg now lives in that episode.

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I just want/need to add: Ronnie looks like Shannen Doherty. That is all.

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I know exactly what you mean, Tux.

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Holy crap I never knew it was him all along I always thought it was a new guy! And it looks like really slipshod stuff you’d hand to your boss after completing it 10 minutes before the deadline.

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