There’s a movie called Alien? That’s offensive! No wonder Earth’s always being invaded.
Ah, once again Lux Aeterna makes anything over the top! (actually I think it was the *Requiem for a Tower *version).
The only Archie I ever knew was the awful 70s Saturday morning show (I hated it even as a kid). Ya know, the one with the Groovy Ghoulies or something. How long has there been a ‘Jughead is gay’ vibe?! And who’s the kid who goes all Columbine?
He was? Oh…maybe I should have said at least as repulsive. Feel better, Cthulu? 
Oh…Incest between Jason and Cheryl? That sounds interesting. Remember Helen and Irwin Sharp?
Not only Archie Comics with Archie, Betty, Veronica, and the gang, but they’re publishing the successful Sonic the Hedgehog comics (three titles, right now, I believe.)
Anybody else remember Thunder Bunny? When that title switched from an Archie affiliate to another publisher, the artist/writer engaged in a bit of cathartic expression by having space aliens vaporize a very recognizable Archie and Jughead.
They’re also relaunching their old silver-age superhero titles.
Rerelaunching, even…they’ve been doing the Red Circle comics for a while, they’re relaunching them again as Dark Circle sometime soon.
Despite what my namesake did to the mythos, the Ancient Ones in general are to humans what humans are to gnats, if the knowledge of the existence of humans drove gnats violently insane. It doesn’t really realize that humans are sentient, assuming it’s aware we exist. One day, when the stars are right, it will destroy us all; not out of malice, but because it exists.
Sleep tight.
Nothing doing–I don’t drink.
I’m half the Moose I used to be
This I feel as the dawn
It fades to gray
Well, I’m half the Moose I used to be
This I feel as the dawn
It fades to gray
Well, I’m half the Moose I used to be
This I feel as the dawn
It fades to gray
Well, I’m half the Moose I used to be, half the Moose I used to be
(With apologies to Stone Temple Pilots)
My cousin posted a selfie from Riverdale, Utah and made an Archie joke. I think Archie and Utah are a pretty good fit. Retro clothes, small-town values, no black friends, polygamy…
Aside, of course, from Chuck Clayton, Nancy Woods (both of whom have been around since the 70s), and Valerie Smith (who dated Archie for a short time, as already mentioned (and got a short future-story of her marriage to him) - though she mostly hangs out with the other Pussycats).
So far no one has felt compelled to introduced dougie_monty to the work of H.P. Lovecraft?
OK, HPL was a SciFi/Horror writer of the 1920s-30s, many of his stories included the concept of extraterrestrial/interdimensional “demon-gods” who have, at least for the time being, been displaced by humanity, and while now bound from direct interference with humans, can still exert some influence on us, even as we can do ritual magick to connect to them. His two most “popular” creations are the Octopus-headed humanoid Cthulhu & the black magick book The Necronomicon.
To the subject of the thread, Big Ethel has also had cartoonist orthodontial & a makeover, is smarter, talented at cooking, has greater self-esteem, and Jughead is somewhat more tolerant of her expressions of affection for him.
How does H. P. Lovecraft compare to Stephen King? (Not that I particularly care for HIS works either.)
Lovecraft is of historical importance WRT fantastic literature. His big picture mythos that underpins many of his stories was awesome and has taken on a life of its own. OTOH, he just wasn’t a very good writer a lot of the time. Also, many modern readers are put off by overt racism in more that a few of his stories.
So he wrote in a more supernatural vein, perhaps?
Both King and Lovecraft wrote supernatural-themed stories. King has been much more successful in his own lifetime and is, IMHO, a better writer, as well as having a broader range.
I love the old Mad Magazine parody “Starchie”. He’s a juvenile delinquent who, when he finally ends up in prison and thinks about how Betty would throw herself at him, repeatedly bangs his head against the wall until there’s a big divot in it (the wall that is).
I remember reading that as a kid. At the end, when “Starchie” was in prison, I cried hard. ( By this time I had started reading the regular Archie comics.) My Dad, who introduced me to Mad, saw this and told me that I should behave–or I could wind up like Starchie Standrews. 
Who makes noise in my teenage house???
Yeah…that couple looked nothing like Fred and Mary Andrews!