Comments on: Bad Boy Trouble: The Prequel

By: Good Comics for Kids » Linkfest: New titles and lots of opinions

Good Comics for Kids » Linkfest: New titles and lots of opinions — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:01:03 +0000

[...] Draper Carlson reads Archie comics with a critical eye, and her dissection of an old Veronica-meets-the-bikers story at Comics Worth Reading focuses on an example of the [...]

By: Charles RB

Charles RB — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:46:15 +0000

I dunno, the first panel showing he’s a wrong’un is basically “let’s leave town together!” and the second could be him just having his masculinity challenged (imagine the low esteem he needs to be challenged by Archie!).

This is me doing a post-modern reading, of course – it’s too easy to see that gang as harmless poseurs pretending to be tough (look at what they dress like!). Look at Rusty, he’s about to cry!

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:35:38 +0000

Well, he did have to put up with a spoiled rich girl using him to tick off daddy and then dumping him… but I suspect he kind of deserved it.

By: Charles RB

Charles RB — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:43:38 +0000

Was I _meant_ to feel sorry for Rusty? Cos that last panel of him made me feel sorry for him. Poor guy.

By: Chris Gumprich

Chris Gumprich — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:02:03 +0000

I have the original buried somewhere in my collection (what?) so while I don’t know the exact issue number, this story was in a B&V from the mid- to late-1980s. 1987 maybe?

So yeah, Veronica’s outfit is kinda out of date. But check out the fat biker in a yellow shirt and black derby! He’s got it goin’ ON!