Veronica, Paul. Veronica and Reggie. Betty would NEVER be part of the 1%.

What is with that new art style?

Batman is a pretty good picture of how a goodly portion of the 1% likes to see itself.

@1 Beat me to the correction. I have a somewhat embarrassing love for Archie comicx.

And apparently an embarrassing inability to spell at the end of the day.

And with this cover, Betty & Veronica become decidedly not as hot as I remember them from my childhood...

Didn't they start a gay character too, only to marry him off to a soldier five minutes later? Au courant on all the latest tropes, our Archie.

Sure, it's all Kumbaya until Midge Klump shows up in a black bandanna with a can of paint.

Class conflict has been addressed in Archie comics before:
http://www.the-isb.com/?p=308

This is what Archie comics look like now? Somebody resurrect Dan DeCarlo!

I would totally bang Archie... You know, if he wasn't a teenaged cartoon.

What's Richie Rich's take on the subject?

I want an Archie Comic take on the Republican Primaries! Who would be the Santorum character? Veronica's Dad is obviously Mitt Romney. Gingrich?

My fave was when Archie and the gang discussed the ramifications of a post-peak-oil society.

I enjoyed fantasizing about Betty more when she was cartoonier.

@4 Don't be ashamed! I love them, too!

I want to dislike the new style, but Jughead is so perfect.

I don't know what style they're using for the interior, but that's a variant cover by the great Jill Thompson (Scary Godmother, Sandman).

The 99% percent has Chuck AND Dilton. Fuck you richies!

O, Honey
O, Sugar, Sugar

You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9nE2spOw…

Real talk: Betty and Jughead are banging on the sly. Also, Archie's gay but hasn't figured it out yet.

This isn't actually going to be an Archie comic though. It might be put out by people who used to work on Archie, but it won't be an official in-universe thing.

And Jill Thompson's art is amazing.

Archie comics have ALWAYS been about class, with Reggie and Veronica representing the 1%. Archie represents the working class guy who is deluded into thinking that he could somehow, someday break into the 1% (Veronica's pants). Betty represents all that is virtuous of the working class. Jughead represents the working class who is not only satisfied with working class pleasures but revels in them. Dilbert, Moose, and the rest all have a place in the class conflict. Nearly all of the humor in Archie is class driven.

Don't act like Archie comics just woke up to class differences; that's what it has ALWAYS been about. Maybe you should have Charles read them to you.

The Archie's website mentions The Stranger by name in it's blog.

http://www.archiecomics.com/Blogs/tabid/…

frankly, I can't wait to see how Batman deals with all this.

If it's Frank Miller Batman, he'll beat up some dirty useless homeless fucks to draw the police away from the Occupy encampment, then he'll drive the Batmobile through the densest part of the Occupy crowd. Then he'll get out to deliver an astonishingly violent beatdown while lecturing them moodily.

Betty always was hotter.