watching this right now. Its not very good. Just feels like there is a lack of polish in it.
Was there ever a good Archie cartoon? If I recall, even the riverdale gang was kind of bleh in the old sabrina cartoon, despite how cute sabrina was in it. -
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Yeah, a really meh show. I did have a friend get terrified of some dumb alien couch potato episode, gave her nightmares for awhile.
they're all terrible if you love the Archie characters do not seek out the old cartoon from the 70's.
it's very much what the Simpson parody is but with worst voice acting.
the 70's Sabrina is a better than Archie but it's just Hanna-Barbera's rip of of bewitched.
they're both on YouTube
I liked the 2000's Sabrina but it might have been bad idk
it is what it is.
the live action is typical TGIF sitcom stuff. The cartoon was low budget late 90s stuff. Not too offensive at the time, but looks its age now.
The Filmation one is fine for what it is, certainly the closest in spirit to the usual comics
I wonder why so many Archie cartoons fail to do what readers like, when the same sort of chemistry is so common in a 100 thousand animes
Romcom anime and manga are aimed at teens and draws their characters especially the girls to be "sexy"
Classic Archie is all ages comedy not romcom, and it usually only goes for "pretty", and it can't shake the inherent comedy comic goofiness in its DNA except by going full grimdark moron, at which point it's not really Archie
Grimdark or dramarama
>Classic Archie is all ages comedy not romcom, and it usually only goes for "pretty", and it can't shake the inherent comedy comic goofiness in its DNA except by going full grimdark moron, at which point it's not really Archie
anon, have you read anything old?
The comic started out by targeting early teen boys and girls. Or young adults with functioning sex drives. And it leaned male. The comics had pinups and betty and veronica were sold as a fantasy to teen boys much like harem anime is sold as a fantasy to young japanese teen boys. It was pretty typical to see ads for atlas weight training programs and bicycles since it was targeted at preteen and teen boys and some girls.
At some point they figured out that not a lot of teen boys were reading the comic, and most of their readers were 13 year old girls that liked to watch betty and veronica compete with each other AND all the fancy clothes the girls had. They got rid of the weight lifting course ads, made the girls less curvy and replaced the pinups with paper dolls and fashion pages.
why did boys stop reading? I'm going to take a wild guess that it was in magazines getting better color photography and paper and things like playboy becoming more widespread in distribution and availability. People take it for granted but there was a time before big glossy photos were common in magazines. There was also a time where you had to drive a hour or more to a city that to buy adult magazines.
also, I don't think boys and men like the blueballing nature of how the love triangle in archie comics is written. If anime is any indication, boys and men seem to like more follow through. More closure. They want confirmation that the main character is hooking up with one or many of the girls. In the 90s, it was expected that the mc would pick a girl in the final few episodes. That has progressed to the mc banging every woman that joins his party, or banging her daughter.
>also, I don't think boys and men like the blueballing nature of how the love triangle in archie comics is written. If anime is any indication, boys and men seem to like more follow through. More closure. They want confirmation that the main character is hooking up with one or many of the girls. In the 90s, it was expected that the mc would pick a girl in the final few episodes. That has progressed to the mc banging every woman that joins his party, or banging her daughter.
which is something that will never change. America refuses to acknowledge that teens have sex or at least want to have sex.
lol, they probably still didnt frick
Well no they're Christian comics.
Betty, who also had multiple personalities and a vampire for an uncle, wants to talk to me about god and faith.
To be fair, I'd probably believe in god too if my family member was an unholy abomination for Satan and I recovered from skitzo episode.
I want to marry her
Guess my perception is skewed by digests then
Archie need really could use a good cartoon, I've never watched it but New Archies at least has good 80's animation.
Riverdale is the closest thing we will get
The 70's Archie show had a hit song on the radio, "Sugar Sugar", and Scooby-Doo was created to be a rip-off of it but they went in a wildly different direction. The reason the gang traveling around was because they were a band and the music in the chase scenes were there songs but the writing team leaned heavily into the mystery of the week instead.
Archie and Scooby-Doo have never crossed over with each other, despite both of them having tons of weird crossovers, have they?
Not a cartoon, but CW's Riverdale is a good take on Archie. The only people that don't like it are chuds and incels.
I don't know, I never really cared for how CW writes stuff. Was never a big fan of Buffy, Angel, smallville, etc. Even if I wanted to bang Willow.
Annotated ones are way better, make the show less boring
Define good
oh yeah, it has hot stuff sometimes, but it never goes all in.
It was weird
Cartoon? Not to my knowledge; but there was a solid Archie horror comic series awhile back.