#square jaw

[misterlemonztenth]

03-13-24 | takingoff38. misterlemonztenth.tumblr.com/archive

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[whosagodnow]

daniel

[markonpark]

Portrait of a striking man with pale eyes and a square jaw cabinet card photo taken by Bailey and Fuller of Rochester, N.H.

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[jhsharman]

Jughead's magic pin

Archie Comics came to not know what to with Jughead. By the company's account, he is / has been / had been the favorite character of adult readers and of boys, but not of the preteen girls who had made the core of the readership. All good and well when sales are up -- even if the Jughead title has sales a step or two behind the Betty and Veronica title. But, moving on from the sales bump that came out off the popular Saturday morning cartoon and bubblegum hit single, and the with industry staring down the economic turmoil of stagflation and the changing starting to fade newsstand market, the sales figures become bothersome. And by their accounts, this is why they made changes as against this readership who just could not relate to the guy. Girls like romance! So, here we have round one of a series of, at times, controversial movements -- ones that I see commentary here and there denouncing as a kind of "queer erasure". For round one (as well, a few later, with one narrative modification, round two) they produced a magic hat pin. A magic hat pin he wores which, in and of iself, attracted the chicks. And it is just that stupid. To comics dot org, Jughead number 283, December 1978.

This issue introduces one of the most unusual continuing storylines in Archie comics history: an unseen, mysterious force finally makes Jughead attracted to girls, and gives him a new, supernatural pin on his hat. The storyline was strung through stories in "Jughead," "Archie" and "Betty and Veronica" around this time. After reader reaction was not positive, the story was dropped without explanation

Following along with comics dot org, we see that a full thwarted "magic hat, square jaw, ladies man" premise proceeds in all four stories in this issue, two of the four stories in the next issue, and then it is over. This leaves the rest of issue 284 and then issue 285 where we have normal old Jughead -- stories written and mostly drawn before such editorial choices, but with that quick realization coming in -- "oh, crap! He has a new hat pin!", so comes the quick erasing of of a circle and square and drawing in of a pin on that hat, in stories written before this stupdifying experiment. And this actually ought to have made it it easy for digest reprintings of the handful of stories that are caught in the crossfire, as seen here, except that -- as seen here -- they have the red circle and white square spaced and sized badly.

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[thesolemnhour]

Transfiguration's gonna come for me, at last, and I will burn hotter than the sun.

🦋🔥Knight-Commander Agria Lebeda🔥🦋

[INCREDIBLE art by @earthlydusk]

[murdrdocs]

sometimes i just think …

[cryptiduni]

loser lesbians

[unexpectedbrickattack]

peppino studies...hes got such a cute face and i feel like im straying away from it

[murdermitties]

Lionblaze

[coolpikachu]

🌊 torrent of regret

[daenerys-targaryen]

natalia dyer on the left vs what this plastic surgeon thinks she should look like on the right it’s MIND boggling literally what the fuck is wrong with you

[highendphasrs]

now lemme say I’m the biggest hater i hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk i hate the way that you dress

[ride-a-dromedary]

[screwpinecaprice]

Another random pencil sketchdump while I wait for my laptop to charge.

Oval-shaped faces are personally tricky to do digitally compared on paper. And guess who has an oval-shaped face??

On the third pic's bottom left, I tested giving Connie a little heart-shape to see how it looks because heart-shapes are relatively the easiest to me digitally; maybe I can cheat a bit there, you know? (And it works great for others.) And to be honest.. I'm really not sure about it. :/ I definitely like the one on the right more. But how the heck is it so hard to do on the tabbbbb?

Oh! Also skitched @pogostikk's short-haired Connie and clown boi Steven. I love them. 🥺💕