#Freida Gabbit

[jhsharman]

Jughead's Diner bingo card

Described here semi- woefully as "safe surrealism". Which is a shame -- an opportunity lost from the creators when they could have been writing and drawing that type of surrealism that... overthrows governments? I am sure that is what Bill Golliher and Dan Parent had in mind, but were stopped by a fretful editor.

I note two items in this page. One probably could have been kept, the other size reduction restrictions probably required a dropping.

A trademark is dumped. One joke of a flourish goes missing.

And slipped in dedications are out. These were, by the reprintings, a decades old reference to a decades old pop cultural ephemera, so maybe it is good that they spare everyone an update to a new outdated allusion.