#archie double digest

[bughead-in-the-comics]

From Jughead’s Gag Bag, Archie Double Digest #15 (1985).

[jugheads-choni]

World of Archie Double Digest #127

— Cover Art by: Rex Lindsey

[theafictionados]

Every Afictionados Best Line Award (Blanche)

Riverdale Episode 709: Betty & Veronica Double Digest

by the Afictionados Podcast Network

[archiecomicsfanatic]

Ooooh…burn for Archie & Reggie!

[beggiefiles]

Reggie dressed up as one of the "Three Stoops".

How Could You Stoop So Low?; World of Archie Double Digest #93

[oldshowbiz]

The Archie Comics Factory.

Archie's Double Digest operated out of 325 Fayette Avenue, Mamaroneck, New York - next to a brick smokestack.

[fyeahvarchie]

ARCHIE ANDREWS & VERONICA LODGE ↳ 7x09 - Betty & Veronica Double Digest

[susandsnell]

In honour of Dracula Daily, I need to share that as a first grader, I saw Dead and Loving It and despite it being a parody, I subsequently developed a deep fear of Dracula. 

Thankfully, junior vampire slayer that I was, I found a solution to this: in addition to garlic, stakes, and sunlight, I was convinced you could absolutely keep Dracula away with Archie comics because every time I tired myself out reading Archie comics at night, I woke the next morning to find Dracula had not Gotten Me, so I tried to keep a few Betty and Veronica double digests at my bedside at all times.

[uglygirlstatus]

Oh my god. The quad technically means the finale adapted part of ‘Archie vs. Predator II’ — which was canonically the last piece of media in the original ‘Archie Comics’ continuity, only with Jughead added — in that, Betty and Veronica ended up with other and Archie, who’d following an odd series of events had ended up a Yautja (the ‘Predator’ alien) himself, after being merged with the teenage one who’d killed him (meaning he looked like himself, but with a hideable Yautja head).

I had seen this previously mentioned by resident Riverdale genius and prophet niko doctorcurdlejr though I had no idea about all that alien stuff. I can’t believe people got mad at Riverdale for being “outlandish” and “nothing like the comics” when the comics had this. Nobody knows how to have fun. Anyway I think that’s cool! I only ever read the double digests and such in my youth (though I did read hundreds of them) so I never got to experience the more narrative/longer form archie comics

[bughead-in-the-comics]

From Archie Double Digest #344 (2023).

[jugheads-choni]

Jughead and Archie Comics Double Digest #16

-By various authors & artists

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Toddler and tiara: Meghan Markle STILL throwing tantrums about royal family By Maureen Callahan August 29, 2022 

Lest anyone remain in doubt, Meghan Markle’s latest interview makes one thing clear: This woman has nothing to say. She has nothing to offer, no original thoughts or guiding philosophy, no earthly reason to be taking so much money from, and so much space in, the mainstream media she so clearly reviles.

You know, just as she reviles the British royal family, even as she clings to her title and accepts money from her father-in-law, the future king, who reportedly subsidized her and Harry’s $14.5 million mansion, purchased for their privacy.

Still, yet again, the Greta Garbo of Northern California sits for another major profile, this time for New York magazine. [not NY Magazine, A New York Magazine: The Cut.]

Forget the People’s Princess — now we’re saddled with the Petulant Princess, one whose preferred crown is perpetual victimhood. For the past three years she’s had a global platform, yet all she does with it is complain that she’s been censored, silenced, shut out. Meghan Markle has been a public downer longer than she was a working duchess. It’s long past time for a new talking point.

I must concede her lone accomplishment here: Just when you think Meghan Markle can’t get any more delusional, she outdoes herself. Her self-regard runs in direct opposition to her waning relevance. She clearly has no real friends left — or even decent publicists — because anyone with an iota of common sense would say, “You know, Meghan, it’s probably best not to compare yourself to Nelson Mandela.”

Reader, in this profile, Meghan Markle compares herself to Nelson Mandela. Settle in.

“I had just had Archie,” she says. “It was such a cruel chapter. I was scared to go out.” But go out she did — alas, there’s no keeping Meghan Markle down — to a performance of “The Lion King.” After, a South African cast member, she says, “looked at me, and he’s just like light. He said, ‘I just need you to know: When you married into this family, we rejoiced in the streets the same we did when Mandela was freed from prison.’ ”

Oh, this piece is full of howlers. Enjoy it. Savor the details. Don’t read it with your mouth full.

Anyone who’s read Tom Bower’s recent book knows that Meghan is an inveterate liar. But here we have the duchess in her natural habitat — a soulless mansion, Meghan “backlit by the late-morning light in a scene that looks like a Nancy Meyers cinematic interior, Town & Country, Goop, and Architectural Digest had an orgy” — and this only frees her up to reveal her most authentically inauthentic self in all her resentful glory.

We begin with the “invisible” help [sounds more like black magic seance] lighting a scented candle from the members-only Soho House — the founder, Meghan says, a friend. Annual dues run a little over $4,000. But remember: even though she wants to be known as a humanitarian, a feminist and a renegade, what’s equally important are all the famous people she knows and the exclusive, rich-people-only places she has access to.

Meghan opens the interview with the most millennial of revelations: “Do you want to know a secret?” she asks. “I’m getting back . . . on Instagram.”

Stop the presses, indeed!

Or . . . not? Meghan doubles back on that bold announcement almost immediately: She’s not sure, she says. She might not. Lots to consider.

What those factors are, she cannot say.

Oh — and this moment: “At one point in our conversation,” writes Allison P. Davis, “instead of answering a question, she will suggest how I might transcribe the noises she’s making: ‘She’s making these guttural sounds, and I can’t quite articulate what it is she’s feeling in that moment because she has no word for it; she’s just moaning.’ ”

This might be the single most insane thing I’ve ever read in a celebrity profile. Truly, it’s Charlie Kaufman-esque: Meghan evincing such pain she’s non-verbal, yet verbalizing why she’s ostensibly non-verbal to her profiler, who Meghan says should tell us that Meghan doesn’t know what she’s feeling because Meghan told her, in Meghan’s own words, that there are no words for it.

It’s celebrity profile by way of Kafka, and it says something that the hundreds of reader comments on New York mag’s site — a self-selecting group of self-identified feminist social justice warriors — mostly proclaim her phony, delusional and vapid, if not an outright liar.

What will make Meghan happy? Hell if she knows. The only solace she finds from this existential torment, it seems, is sitting for fancy photo shoots and talking to friendly journalists.

“When the media has shaped the story around you,” Meghan whines, “it’s really nice to be able to tell your own story.”

Here’s something this self-styled brilliant mind seems to have missed: A little thing called social media has long allowed for unmediated, unfiltered communication between celebrities and the rest of us, the great unwashed who still, despite Meghan cawing and crying on Oprah, or among starving African children (“nobody asks if I’m OK”), or her new podcast (more on that later), still don’t get how hard it is to be Meghan Markle, unappreciated duchess in exile, transcendent representation of rare greatness.

Why won’t we all just adore her?

Gwyneth Paltrow, consider yourself dethroned. We have a new Queen of All Things Insufferable.

“One of the first things my husband saw when we walked around the house was those two palm trees,” she says, touring her grounds with our ink-stained wretch. “See how they’re connected at the bottom? He goes, ‘My love, it’s us.’ And now every day when Archie goes by [the trees], he says, ‘Hi Momma. Hi, Papa.’ ”

Archie is three.

A note about that podcast: A lot of people listened to it, I know. I also firmly believe those ratings are the audio equivalent of rubbernecking. If the first episode — ostensibly an interview with Serena Williams — is reflective of the rest, this is really a podcast about Meghan Markle.

She leads with her oft-reported origin story [🤣] of Feminist Meghan, standing up to corporate America as an 11-year-old (a story Tom Bower surgically took apart as false), then asks us to marvel at her longtime friendship with Williams and endure another tall tale in which the royals and their staff do not care that baby Archie almost burned to death in South Africa.

The conversation is everything one would expect, Meghan going on about her “lived experience” — is there any other kind? — her “dear, dear friend Serena,” and the “labels, boxes and archetypes” that women still suffer. “Women” being proxy for Meghan, “archetypes” such as: Spoiled brat. Ungrateful. Delusional. Hypocrite.

Now, I will also admit that I didn’t think Markle could surpass the moment when, as a working royal, she spontaneously wrote inspirational messages — “you are strong,” “you are loved” — for sex workers. On bananas.

But here, we see a totally spontaneous and sugary everyday school pick-up — “She scoops [Archie] [child actor] up in a big hug so full of genuine emotion that both close their eyes” — turn into a teachable moment about the homeless.

“At a stoplight, [Meghan] reaches into the trunk and produces a brand-new black backpack and hands it to her security detail to give to an unhoused man on the corner.” [Because she's so concerned about her "security" she couldn't keep the bag inside her vehicle or ask her security to keep the bags inside their vehicle. Nope MM had to (roll down her window) jump up out of the vehicle to be seen. Poor homeless person was probably a paid plant.]

Yes, young American royal-non-royal Archie: If you want to give some food to a starving homeless person — peanut-butter crackers and granola bars, no whole meals or cash or the like — have the help do it. No need to get near poverty and filth yourself.

And then back we go to the Montecito manse, where Meghan has another ready anecdote about the grand piano Tyler Perry gave her as a housewarming gift, instructing her to “write the soundtrack for your life,” she says. So relatable. [Of course she must learn to play piano better than Kate😉.]

Meghan winds down by returning to her other favorite subject, forgiveness. Even though she won’t forgive her father, whose main crime has been talking to the media, she wants the royal family to know that someday, maybe, she might forgive them. She, of course, has nothing to be forgiven for. Why would one even ask?

“I think forgiveness is really important,” Meghan says, adding that she has “a lot to say until I don’t. Sometimes, as they say, the silent part is still part of the song.”

Meghan Markle, two very weary nations beg you: Please. Be that silent part.

[archiecomicsfanatic]

Jughead always thinks ahead…

[archidrews]

the way people will be like “lol the grimdark edgy riverdale show that has nothing to do with the archie comics” but have never READ the archie comics aside from two double digests they got in the grocery checkout at age 12….which no shade there bc me too but i KEPT reading them and if you’re gonna hate on riverdale you have to hate on the direction of the Archie series that started in 2015 like be consistent! you’ll still be boring and hate fun but at least you’ll be accurate about it. the comics ARE like this they have always BEEN like this

[dirtyriver]

So the gag is that Jughead is not into girls. Ethel was so so disappointed in their first outing she didn't bother going to the second one. Fortunately for her the last one sas written by Al Hartley, who never saw a teenager he couldn't turn into a raging hormone factory (art by Stan Goldberg and Mike Esposito).

Here are some more hayride covers:

Jughead #150, November 1967, cover by Bill Vigoda

Archie’s Pals'n'Gals #205, April 1989, cover by Dan and Jim DeCarlo, reused on World of Archie Double Digest #24, February 2013

Jughead #42, February 1993, cover by Stan Goldberg (pencils) and Mike Esposito (inks)

Pep #245, September 1970, cover by Dan DeCarlo (pencils) and Rudy Lapick (inks)

Archie's Holiday Fun Digest #2, February 1998, cover by Stan Goldberg (pencils) and Henry Scarpelli (inks)

Laugh Comics Digest #170, December 2001, cover by Stan Goldberg (pencils) and Bob Smith (inks)

Little Archie #178, September 1981, cover by Dexter Taylor

[klapollo]

I started reading archie comics as a kid bc I was visiting my mom at her grocery store job and I saw an archie double digest at the checkout rack and he was eating on the cover and I did not know what a "digest" was as a magazine so I thought it was about some freak with two stomachs and I asked her to buy it for me bc I had to see that