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[mamculuna]

Archie and Jughead have a gay friend--is it possible that tolerance is creeping in?

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[siro-gravity.livejournal.com]

wow!
I guess the world changes little by little! I used to love that comic when I was a kid!

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Of course, that may mean that Archie will get banned down here...

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Interesting, considering the Archie comics I read as a kid were all "Christian" comic books (maybe not representative of the entire franchise, I have no idea).

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Huh. I read them in the 50's, and they weren't Christian then (sexist, though, of course...but some good digs at the rich kids). They still dressed like it was the 40's, I remember noticing. Jughead still has that weird hat that I'm sure modern kids must find totally inexplicable.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Eh, it's been so long it's probably back in style by now.

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

One of the regular Archie artists was an evangelical Christian, and he nagged his bosses into licensing the characters to a Christian apologetics company (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spire_Christian_Comics). So, no, that was a very specific subset of the franchise.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Oh, I figured that, but since I wasn't a comic-book reader as a kid, and only stumbled on these at the church camp bookstore and read them out of boredom, that's the only Archie series I've read.