Thanks to Colette Moran for the link. The improvised comic prose is East Portland’s alone (Colette would never jest about energy drinks.):
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“In Archie, Obama v. Palin – PATRICK GAVIN | POLITICO CLICK
Obama is dubbed “The Chicago Kid” while Palin gets named “The Thrilla from Wasilla” on the new Archie covers.” Complete story is here.
The question seems obvious. If Archie can contemporize sufficiently to include hot and lovely post-moderns, Obama and Palin, the Muhammad Ali and Cheryl Tiegs of our current media age, why won’t they contemporize Riverdale’s drinkups and hangouts enough to allow the “kids” to split an energy drink, a delicious Starbucks Frappucino or a $1.50 Costco mocha? Why must the kids go to a malt shop? (What is a malt shop, really, other than an oblique, prohibition-era reference to a beerhall, speakeasy or palace of sinsky? “Honey– wink wink— let’s head to the “Malt Shop” after the big game and split a hoppy brown ale thick as Hershey’s syrup. Yummers…”)
Please Archie comics, free Moose and Jughead. Allow them to drink the modern energy drinks which will help them succeed in Riverdale High and earn a spot in the college of their choice.
