This may not come as a surprise to anyone, but I own a lot of comics.
It’s a pretty obvious fact that I’ve become acutely aware of over the past few days, since I’ve been moving my collection around into a new set of boxes, but what surprised me even more than the fact that I’ve got an entire run of John Ostrander’s Martian Manhunter series that I’ve never read a single issue of was the sheer amount of Archie books that I’ve got. Admittedly, I’ve been buying the entire line for more than a year now, but still: There’s a ton of ’em.
It stuck out to me so much that I decided–as any right-minded person would–to take a picture of myself holding a bunch of them and scowling and, for reasons that were obvious at the time, send it to a bunch of my pals:
Incidentally, if it looks like I never sleep, it’s because… well, probably because I’m up late writing about the Bat-Witch or something every night.
Kevin Church was the first to respond with an image that provided tonight’s title:
Next up, Mark Hale casts aspersions on the motivating force behind my Riverdalean obsessions:
Then Dave Lartigue decided to throw in a little of the urban flava that we’ve come to expect from the ISB:
The possibilities are endless. Join us, won’t you?
“I wish this was a full run of ‘Tarot.'”
Whoomp! There it is.
Alternate captions:
“My preciousss!”
“Check out the anti-redeye filter on my new camera!”
“Christmas! Bah! Humbug!”
“Mmmh hdhhng mmmh hrchh hn mh mmmfh!” (Translation: “I am storing my Archies in my mouth!”)
“Archie Comics: The choice of unshaven malcontents for over sixty years!
You are a local celebrity now!
Please feel free to kidney punch me for this effort.
My fancy photoshop computer and I are in a fight. so I present you an effort thats more heart than presentation.
ehhhhh
sorry, apparently photobucket wants a fight.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v221/Kurtin/Archies.jpg
Mister Chris, I have one for you. Enjoy.
http://sonicstapler.blogspot.com/2007/05/yay-participation-grades.html
I made one for you. It came out a little creepy. Knowing you (not that I know you, actually, but having read a bunch of your posts), that might be a plus.
http://robcrogers.blogspot.com/2007/05/archie-sims.html
Chris, is that a Flash t-shirt you’re wearing?
Chris, I’m sure you’d appreciate these news: animated transformers t-shirts…
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/32671
I am a bad bad girl.
“Evacuate Riverdale! I’m going to destroy it!”
Participate’d!
It matches the face so perfectly! The font, that is, not the quote.
Here ya go!
“Damn these Archie comics. I’ve got so many they’ve caused the house to subside!”
Seriously Chris, do you live on the side of a mountain or something? Or do you live on a ship and this picture was taken during a storm?
I live on a boat that is also a mountain.