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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
And Then There Was That Time Betty Got Kidnapped By Hillbillies
Life With Archie, the "serious" Archie book, for it's 149th issue featured this apparently Deliverance inspired cover:
It starts out innocently enough, with Archie and Betty poling (no pun intended) their way through Federal wetlands (are there any bits of geography Riverdale doesn't have?). Shack: a rough cabin or shanty. So, yes, Betty, well done, all that studying for the SATs paid off. "Shack" is the right word. Unless of course this is the meaning of "shack" that Archie meant, and you just weren't clued in to the hip slang of the youth of today...
Of course, the shack dwellers don't take kindly to strangers... Which gave the anonymous Archie artist an excuse to draw Betty's sweet, sweet ass...
That's right carrot-top, argue with the man with a gun to your girl-friend's head... Dumbass...
And then, it all goes horribly, horribly wrong, as the implied subtext goes places not even the Earth-Christian Archie would go to... Da-da-deir-da-deir-da-deir-deir-deir...
Luckily, Ronnie comes along, in her souped-up speedboat which can't be legal to be driving around in those shallow Federal wetlands... "Wow, Ronnie, your dad sure has a lot of emergency supplies! First aid kits, flood lights, life jackets, fire extinguishers...hey, what's this packet?" "Oh, those are fake IDs in case Daddy needs to make a run for it and he doesn't have enough gas in the boat to reach a country that doesn't extradite."
Archie hatches a clever plan...I know, it's not really plausible, but run with it, we're almost out of story pages... For the large number of you who are coming here from that foot-fetishist site, that panel was for you. "Think the police will get here before they drown, Ronnie?" "Not a chance, Archie!"
