Reading that I found myself imagining an alternate-history version where Spire Comics was a Mormon imprint.
I haven’t read an Archie comic in like 30 years, but didn’t there always used to be a running gag that Jughead didn’t like girls?
Specifically, he was pursued by Big Ethel, a girl whom he found quite revolting.
Yeah, my money’s on Jughead.
I’m lookin at Jughead here.
Look, how drunk would you have to be to get with Big Ethel?!
Does anyone remember when it was revealed that Jughead’s real name is Forsythe? And that the reason he goes by the moniker Jughead is because the name Forsythe affects women the way Axe body wash fragrance does?
Odd, I’m a woman, and I seem to be immune. Forsythe, Forsythe, Forsythe…mmm, nope, not getting the least bit horny. But I wouldn’t name my kid Forsythe either. Not sure if that means anything.
Josie and the Pussycats always seemed like a campy lesbo band to me. Josie’s sort of average, Val’s a bit butch and Melody’s coquettish. And Alexandra Cabot’s a conniving, pulp novel-style sexual predator.
I love that Archie did this, BTW. Good for them.
Its that strong headwind from the impending homostorm.
Blondie’s artists use that same style. Or rather, the original artist did, and set the style. It’s especially apparent in the men in Blondie, the women aren’t nearly as affected.
Because he’s the king of Queen Archie.
This was my first thought too. I never thought of any of the Archie kids as being gay.
Nah, Weatherbee and Grundy are totally bonin’.
Yeah, but not the way you think. Grundy has a bitchin strap on and Weatherbee knows how to squeel.
Logically, there has to be at least one … or Kevin’s going to be pretty lonely.
I don’t actually remember a Kevin character. I do know that while Jughead didn’t date, he had a weird-shaped pin for his hat that would make him irresistible to females … sort of like Axe body spray, but without the stench. That was somewhere around 30 years ago. Of course, he didn’t use that pin very often.
I remember that pin. In one comic, even Dilton’s robot “maid”, Theta was smitten with him.
Good quote from that article:
As long as it featured Jughead’s misogyny and a page of Li’l Jinx that I was guaranteed never to laugh at, I was game.
Yeah, Lil’ Jinx did suck. I always hated those.
How charming, such naivete, missred, if it were genuine. You can’t pretend we don’t all know this roman à clé inside and out.
Getty is a militant lesbian, as is Veronica.
Kevin’s first friend- and the first person he admits he’s gay to- is Jughead. I think that’s all the explanation needed. As to the fact that Jughead is secretly gay.
Well, that’s exposition for the setup. Would you have known that Kevin is gay unless he told somebody or otherwise expressed it overtly in his actions?
The point of my OP, however, is that it’s impossible for a comic book character to be secretly gay, simply because he or she has no existence beyond the pages of the book. The presupposition which the media posit simply by using the term “openly gay” when referring to Kevin is almost childlike.
Are you predicting, then, that Jughead will out himself soon? I wonder how that will come about, and if it will involve hamburgers or milkshakes.