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Sunday, November 30, 2014

Archie's Generic Celebrities Month, Day 30: Not Actually Veronica Lodge

Hey, we're at the end of Archie's Generic Celebrities Month! What do you think about that, Reggie Mantle?

'Say, why don't I take the boxes off and Reggie can get up out of the trench?' ' It's even better! Great! Rewrite!' 'I say my lines out of the trench? But I've never acted out of a trench. I might fall over. It's dangerous!' 'Oh well, could you just try it?' 'Look, you crumb bum, I'm a star! Star, star, star! I don't get a million dollars to act out of a trench! I played St John the Baptist in a trench, and I played Napoleon Bonaparte in a trench, and I played Alexander Fleming in a furrow so if you want this scene played out of a trench, well you just get yourself a goddamn stuntman!'

Panel from "Teen Paparazzi" in Archie & Friends #116 (April 2008), script by George Gladir, pencils by Fernando Ruiz, inks by Jon D'Agostino, colors by Barry Grossman, letters by Jon D'Agostino
Actually, Reggie, no, because to qualify as a Generic Celebrity in Riverdale, you have to have a soundalike name to the original. For example, what happens to Veronica Lodge when her name is misspelled on her driver's license!:

I refuse to believe this scene passed without once hearing the phrase 'Why, do you even KNOW who my daddy is?'

I refuse to believe this scene passed without once hearing the phrase 'Why, do you even KNOW who my daddy is?'

Panels from "A Fishy License" in Betty and Veronica (1987 Series) #106 (December 1996), script by Hal Smith, pencils and inks by Dan DeCarlo, colors by Barry Grossman, letters by Bill Yoshida
So pretty much the rest of the story is taken up with the wacky hijinks of Betty chauffeuring Veronica around town and then Ronnie takes her driver's license test again and gets a new license and then here we go:

To be fair, Ronnie probably shouldn't have been playing N.W.A. on the car stereo.

To be fair, Ronnie probably shouldn't have been playing N.W.A. on the car stereo.

There you go, folks: Archie's Generic Celebrities Month. i hope you has as good a time as we did with Jangelina Olie, Wuce Brillis, and Cenedibt Bumbercatch. And what about you, Cheryl Blossom?

Upon the judge's review, this does NOT count as a Winona Ryder in Comic Books entry.

Upon the judge's review, this does NOT count as a Winona Ryder in Comic Books entry.

Sunday, October 09, 2011

The 300 Challenge! #33 (last one!)

(Decide your answer, then click the image to see the full cover!)

That's the last of them! Total up all your points and meet me in ten minutes at the end of Ten of a Kind #300, where I'll give you the name of the fake cover so you can tally your final score! (Thanks for playing...it's been fun!)