Archie Comics goes down the 'What If' path with the interracial love affair of Archie and Pussycat tambourine player, Valerie.
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"The fans can expect the next step in what I think is the most romantic story in Archie history," says Dan Parent, the writer and artist of the Archie Comics title. "The chemistry between Archie and Valerie was hot the first time they got together, and now you've really got to see it simmer, all the way from the rekindling of their romance to getting much more serious than we've seen before."
The comic won cultural kudos in 2010 for hooking Archie and Valerie up in an interracial romance, and it's a relationship that has been the only real threat to the long-running love triangle involving Betty and Veronica over the years, Parent says.
"We've thrown in others like Cheryl Blossom before, but his relationship with Valerie is perhaps even more substantive than his relationship with the other two."
The first story was cute, I hope this is just as fun.
2 comments:
Question, isn't the only choice for Valerie an inter-racial one? I don't remember there being any major black male characters in Archie (other than the gay military guy that's getting married soon.) She didn't have many options other than white did she?
Besides Valerie, Archie also has Chuck Clayton, who's been in the books since the early-to-mid 70s. His shtick's being a big comic book geek/a cartoonist. However, he's steadily dating his girlfriend (who's also African-American), Nancy Woods.
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