The Four Color Media Monitor

The Valdosta Daily Times is sugarcoating a new anthology special from Archie built on horror themes, which they seem to be overusing quite a bit in the past number of years:

As part of the Archie Comics horror line, “Chilling Adventures Presents ...,” Archie Comics is scheduled to publish “Camp Pickens” in June.

It will be a one-shot anthology issue featuring three horror stories, according to a statement from Archie Comics.

“Stories set at summer camp are synonymous with Archie,” Jamie L. Rotante, Archie Comics senior director of editorial, said in a statement. “Many fans will agree that some of their fondest memories were reading Archie digests while at camp. So, naturally, we had to do a camp-based horror one-shot.”

And the book will feature some of the Riverdale gang.

One must wonder why they think anybody who read their comics at camp for humor would suddenly beg for jarring mayhem instead. That's "natural"? Please. One of the stories included is this:

And there is “Down and Out and Death Cursed, a “slasher send-up” by writer Tim Seeley and artist Mike Norton.

And that's all we need, isn't it? That Archie degenerated into this kind of crude embarrassment over the past decade is despicable, yet it seems they've gone that way because horror's become far more acceptable to whole generations than comedy, recalling how just recently, Jennifer Aniston stated there's only so many who now find the 1994-2004 Friends sitcom "offensive". Yet horror themes are almost throughly acceptable, and go by without a whisper of complaint. And the worst part is that historically, the Friday the 13th series of movies from the 1980s precipitated where the entertainment industry's arrived nowadays, ditto the Nightmare on Elm Street films. Let's hope those who liked the humor comics from Archie will make sure to avoid these atrocities they're brewing at the moment, and due to the politics they've injected over the past decade, that's why they'll have to avoid all their products entirely.

Labels: Archie, msm propaganda, violence