Creeva’s World 2.0

Pic­ture from here

I know that I’m a boy and I should have liked high action comics with super heroes and big explo­sions.  Some­how until I was in my teenage years offi­cially I liked Archie Comics the best.  I’m not going not say that I iden­ti­fied with Archie or any­one else in the comics, I just found them wildly enter­tain­ing.  I lit­er­ally had hun­dreds of Archie comics (they were dirt cheap at the flea mar­ket com­pared to the action comics that cost 5 times as much).  I had a ton of the digests and “dou­ble digests”, though I can say when I see the occa­sional dou­ble digest these days at the super mar­ket aisle I am cha­grined that it is the size of the old sin­gle digest.   What is the sin­gle digest a one sheet strip now?   I also can not tell you the last time I saw and actual Archie comic sold in a new comic books rack, though I don’t look that closely these days.

The age old debate that is prob­a­bly older then Gin­ger ver­sus Maryanne is Betty or Veron­ica.  I’m a Betty fan all the way (and Maryanne also).   The down home girl is the one for me in these sce­nar­ios.  In 1990 Archie was still still try­ing to decide between Betty and Veron­ica in a made for TV movie  Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again that takes place fif­teen years after high school.  I can say even though I was four­teen when it came out I was excited and watched it when it came out.  I video taped it and watched it again and again.   This reminds me I need to hunt down a copy of that now.

Enjoy a cou­ple clips from the TV movie: