Betty and Veronica get a makeover…
…about 30 years too late. (Putting them in the John Kerry School of Snappy Response class of 2006.)
Here’s the story from Publishers Weekly:
Archie & Gang Get A Makeover
The residents of Riverdale will be get a makeover in an upcoming issue of the Betty and Veronica Digest. Artist Steven Butler, who has worked on Marvel’s Spiderman, will give Archie Andrews and the rest of the Riverdale crew a new, more naturalistic contemporary comic book art style in a new story coming in May 2007. The story, “Bad Boy Trouble,” will be written by Melanie Morgan and debut in Betty and Veronica Double Digest # 151. The story will experiment with a longer format. It will be a four-part story and each part will be 25 pages. If the story meets fan approval, look for the mini-series to be collected into a single volume graphic novel. Archie Comics public relations manager Rick Offenberger said the makeover is strictly an experiment to try an attract older readers and the art style will not be used on any other Archie series. He noted that the manga redesign of Archie Comics’s Sabrina series has been “extremely sucessful.” Offenberger said, “This is a real change for us. If it works we’ll collect it into a book. If the fans hate it; we’ll never do it again.”
By the way, here’s the new Reggie:
And this is the new Jughead:
