Archie Characters Come to DC

[hippie_hunter]

WTF??

I wonder if the actual Archie will ever make an appearance in the DCU

 

[lixdexia]

WTF??

I wonder if the actual Archie will ever make an appearance in the DCU

Archie goes to gotham! MAKE IT SO!!!

 

[BETArayBill]

has anybody read an archie comic in the past 30 or so years?

 

[The Eagle Host]

I could not care less.

 

[Majik1387]

Well Archie has had a crossover with Marvel's Punisher, why not also in the DCU?

 

[Knight_Of_Steel]

Archie goes to gotham! MAKE IT SO!!!

What did Batman ever do to you?

 

[Joker]

Archie Goes To Gotham could be amazing. Did anyone else read the Punisher/Archie crossover from the 90's? It was hillarious.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Did anyone actually look at the linked article? It's not Archie's well-known characters, it's a bunch of Archie superheroes created jointly with DC back in the day, and they're basically coming over to co-star in Brave and the Bold because JMS happens to have a soft spot for them.

 

[Mogwai]

Sonic LoL!

 

[Iceburgeruk]

Did anyone actually look at the linked article? It's not Archie's well-known characters, it's a bunch of Archie superheroes created jointly with DC back in the day, and they're basically coming over to co-star in Brave and the Bold because JMS happens to have a soft spot for them.

The Archie Superheroes are quite cool actually. They are the same ones that DC`s Impact imprint were based on. I don`t think they were jointly created with DC, The impact ones might have been.

They are good though so don`t diss them from the off.

The Shield was a costumed crime fighter dressed in the U.S flag who premiered over a year before Captain America ever tossed a shield. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shield_(Archie_Comics)

The Fly was a superhero with bug powers who frist appeared decades before spidey. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly_(Archie_Comics)

And the coolest one in my opinion was the Hangman. I mean batman makes criminals fear bats and thereby him dressed as a bat. But the hangman simply uses the silhouette of a noose to scare them. I mean how many criminals are afraid of bats? Now how many would be afraid of being killed by hanging? I mean surely a criminals greatest fear is prob capital punishment. http://www.toonopedia.com/hangman.htm

For info on the other Archies heroes...http://www.mightycrusaders.net/

And besides I am on DC`s side on this becuase at least they use the comics companies they buy the characters of. I mean marvel has owned Malibu for a decade and have done squat. So basically they have bought the rights of a bunch of superheroes just to take them off the market to reduce the competition. Now those kinda tactic just seem tasteless.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I agree, but at the same time, I'd be a lot more excited if Marvel announced plans to integrate Malibu into their main universe than I am about this. I planned on reading JMS' Brave and the Bold anyway, though, so I'll get some exposure to the Archie heroes.

 

[Iceburgeruk]

I agree, but at the same time, I'd be a lot more excited if Marvel announced plans to integrate Malibu into their main universe than I am about this. I planned on reading JMS' Brave and the Bold anyway, though, so I'll get some exposure to the Archie heroes.

Yeah marvel claims it is impossible to sort out the creator rights. The creators replied that all the malibu stuff was work for hire so marvel can use them as soon as they want.

That was like 2 or 3 years back. So it seems safe to say that at the moment marvel doesn`t giove a damn about the characters in malibu`s stable.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It's a shame, too. I'd much rather have seen Prime come over to the Marvel universe rather than be saddled with the Sentry.

 

[Iceburgeruk]

It's a shame, too. I'd much rather have seen Prime come over to the Marvel universe rather than be saddled with the Sentry.

I know. I loved the early 90s malibu universe of the Protectors and I would hjave loved to see all of them again: The Ferret, Mano Of War they were all cool. I mean imagine The Ferret vs Wolverine or Captain America Versus Man Of War.

 

[DBM]

Yeah marvel claims it is impossible to sort out the creator rights. The creators replied that all the malibu stuff was work for hire so marvel can use them as soon as they want.

That was like 2 or 3 years back. So it seems safe to say that at the moment marvel doesn`t giove a damn about the characters in malibu`s stable.

Marvel's full of ****. The Malibu characters were completely work for hire. The sticking point is that according to the original Malibu contracts, the creators of the characters get royalties on the sales of books with their characters in it. Marvel doesn't what to have to pay the royalties.

The two worst parts are 1) if Marvel had simply requested a contract revision when they bought Malibu they could have avoided this to begin with but they didn't, and 2) the royalties are really minor, like 1 or 2%. They'd barely have to pay anything.

I think it'll be interesting to see what comes of these Archie characters being revived. I enjoy their revival in the 90's, so it's good to see them again. I wonder what the arrangement is with DC though, because as far as I know Archie still owns the characters, so DC must just be licensing them. Then again I bet this a trademark issue where if Archie doesn't get them in print, they'll lose their trademarks.

 

[Iceburgeruk]

So they now own the Archie Superheroes. Does that mena that like the milestone and charlton ones they will prob release TPBs of the old comics?
I hope so. Archie comics only ever did 3 graphic novels.

 

[Iceburgeruk]

Oh yeah do you think DC partly did this to piss marvel off?

I mean the Fly is very similar to Spidey, The Shield is similar to Captain America and Hangman is very in the vein of Punisher.

DC must have thought we can annoy marvel by having a load of heros who have the smae appeal as their top ones but who they can`t sue over because they were created long before marvels ones.

 

[yenaled]

No the companies really don't think like that.

They are only similar because they were mostly created by people who went on to do big things at Marvel - the Fly (for example) was created by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon.

 

[Kitsune]

 

[Aristotle]

Did anyone actually look at the linked article? It's not Archie's well-known characters, it's a bunch of Archie superheroes created jointly with DC back in the day, and they're basically coming over to co-star in Brave and the Bold because JMS happens to have a soft spot for them.

No, it's not the DC/!mpact versions, it doesn't look like. That's kind of a bummer, because I loved those !mpact books. Still do. I'll definitely be giving these a try, though, because I share JMS's "soft spot" for them.

I think the most impressive thing to me about this thread is that practically nobody even realized that "the Archie characters" are the old MLJ Golden Age superheroes. Does nobody bother to learn **** anymore?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

What does "MLJ" mean?

 

[The Question]

I was kind of hoping they'd have it be an alternate Earth that incorporates elements of both the old MLJ stuff and !mpact. As in, have the !mpact characters be the second generation of heroes in that world and tweak their backstories so they fit with the original Golden Age guys. I thought the !mpact version of The Hood was great, and still works well if put in the same continuity as the original Hood.

What does "MLJ" mean?

It was the name of the company that originally published The Shield and The Fly and those other characters.

 

[Aristotle]

I wish they'd restart the !mpact universe as a separate multiverse world. The !mpact characters were easily the best iterations of those characters that I've ever read, as a pretty big fan of the franchise. The writers also had a really cool "Phase Two" planned after the Crucible miniseries, and having read some unpublished material from three of the titles that they would have relaunched, I really wish they could have done it. But DC was never behind the imprint, so they had to change Crucible's outcome at the last minute, which ended up sucking, and Phase Two never happened. The line was cancelled.

MLJ was the company that changed its name to Archie when the character became such a hit.

 

[Sawyer]

WTF??

I wonder if the actual Archie will ever make an appearance in the DCU

So long as its acually written interestingly.

Here's what I say, bring back Archie's Weird Mysteries, but make it a little more like this...

Either that, or actually do something good with the Scooby-Doo comics.

 

[The Question]

I wish they'd restart the !mpact universe as a separate multiverse world. The !mpact characters were easily the best iterations of those characters that I've ever read, as a pretty big fan of the franchise. The writers also had a really cool "Phase Two" planned after the Crucible miniseries, and having read some unpublished material from three of the titles that they would have relaunched, I really wish they could have done it. But DC was never behind the imprint, so they had to change Crucible's outcome at the last minute, which ended up sucking, and Phase Two never happened. The line was cancelled.

I still think it would be nice if they tweaked the history of the !mpact universe to have the original Archie superheroes be the Golden Age of the !mpact universe. The original characters are pretty cool in their own right, and would compliment the !mpact versions nicely.