Archie Comics Puts On Kiss Makeup

Announced at the recent Comic-Con, Kiss will be teaming up with Archie Comics for "In your face tales of Kiss/Archie". Apparently Kiss will come to Archie's hometown of Riverdale in the pages of Archie #627, that will kick off a 4-part "Archie Meets Kiss" storyline. Yes, to the left is Veronica, Jughead, Betty and Archie donning Kiss makeup. I don't know about you, but the phrase "in your face" was not exactly a phrase that I equated with Archie Comics or any of those characters at all. To my surprise, it looks like others have visualized grown up versions of Archie as well. Here's a trailer for a fictitious movie called "Riverdale," with a new take on the Andrews clan - it doesn't have the naivete and lightness that I remember from the original Archies years ago, but I think it's well done in teen/vampire network style.

My path happened to cross with Mark Barkan, who authored the B-side of the Sugar Sugar single; a song called Melody Hill. I was awestruck at my discovery - he also wrote the Banana Splits theme as well as She's A Fool for Lesley Gore, and he was kind enough to autograph my copy of Melody Hill/Sugar Sugar on the Calendar/Kirschner label. That single was the number one song in Billboard in 1969, and to this day I still think Melody Hill is the superior track. Just days after getting Mark's autograph, Archie was back in the news with the Kiss team-up announcement. I haven't kept up with Archie as of late, and think I'll leave it that way. My bubblegum pop history and B-sides are all I need. If I want, I can gawk at the cast of Archie in Kiss makeup- at least we know what they look like without it already! My dark side might watch this trailer a couple of times. Am I not getting with the program? I don't think so, certain things I'd rather not revisit, I'll stick with my original preference... I'll take Melody Hill anyday!

Comments

[Mindwrecker]

Yay for Mark Barkan! Judging from what I see of his body of work via this story - I'd imagine there are a few other songs of his that I like. 'Melody Hill' has always been one of the favorites of off my old grey-market 'Best of the Archies' cd with the crude fakey Archies art on the cover. Hmmm, in the same week I hear about the new gay character just introduced in Riverdale, and now this KISS tie-in - that publisher is going 21st Century in a big way.

[just john]

I have the "Sugar Sugar" single. It plays really well at 33 1/3 RPM, too. Really soulful.

[hyena sparerib]

Hey just john - I think the Vanilla Fudge made a career out of that discovery...
Will the Archie/Kiss comic use ink that contains actual Kiss (or Archies?) blood like the first Kiss comic?

[oem86]

THANKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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It's really soulful.

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