# Archie Comics to reveal Jughead's sexual orientation

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-reveal-jugheads-sexual-orientation/745647>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 9, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-reveal-jugheads-sexual-orientation/745647 "2016-02-09T20:24:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-reveal-jugheads-sexual-orientation/745647/61 "2016-02-22T20:36:05Z")

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Was going to leave this alone, because it’s sat for a week while I was in hospital, but…I can’t. [I’m just that kind of a nerd…](https://xkcd.com/386/)

Ignoring the other comments, which are more jokey (and at least ‘almost all of his friends are white’ at least acknowledges Chuck and Nancy, even as it ignores that they’re about 1/3 of the main cast)…

> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#):
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> –Everyone always dresses like it’s 30 years prior, and always has

This is just…bizarre. The digests have always had plenty of old material, to be sure, so lots of stories where they were in out of date clothes as far as knew readers would know, but the girls, in particular, were always as up to date as the fact that it was a comic book with an aging staff and fairly rigid art style (and, during certain fashion eras, the fact that they had to be kid-friendly) allowed in the new material.

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**Author:** ![Carryon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Carryon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carryon)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2016, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-reveal-jugheads-sexual-orientation/745647/62 "2016-02-22T23:28:55Z")

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Maynard G Krebs was pretty much assexual too.

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**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-reveal-jugheads-sexual-orientation/745647/63 "2016-02-23T00:09:28Z")

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> [@Kamino\_Neko](#):
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> This is just…bizarre. The digests have always had plenty of old material, to be sure, so lots of stories where they were in out of date clothes as far as knew readers would know, but the girls, in particular, were always as up to date as the fact that it was a comic book with an aging staff and fairly rigid art style (and, during certain fashion eras, the fact that they had to be kid-friendly) allowed in the new material.

Well, and even more to the point, we’re talking about a total reboot. It’s not the “same” Archie and Jughead and friends. The new comic is drawn pretty timely.

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