The Scumbag #12

[history79]

Comments

[jgraygaming]

... did this book even have a plot to lose?

[stubbleupdate]

I got to the final panel and said The fucking cunts from Riverdale?

[thanekos]

Rick Remender, scratching his head to come up with some kind of " Richie Cunningham " joke, but only landing on " Arrested Development narrator " ones.

[mazway_75]

I keep having to remind myself this isn't Garth Ennis....

[tinygaylaura]

Am I a bad person for finding the idea of Fonzie trying to knife murder someone to keep his and Richie's forbidden love a secret actually kind of chuckle-some?

I realise it is peak "LOL RANDOM" humor here and it's not GOOD writing by any stretch of the imagination but it's just so out of nowhere and so insane that I kind of love it? If the joke was just "He walks in on a parody of The Fonz and Richie Cuunningham having sex" that would be so lazy and lacking in imagination that it wouldn't even make it into a Family Guy cutaway gag but the joke is "AND THEN THEY HUNT HIM THROUGH THE STREETS TRYING TO KILL HIM WITH THE AID OF THE KIDS FROM RIVERDALE" and that's...IDK it takes it to a level of stupid where it's kind of amazing?

Like it becomes...SO STUPID...it's genius. Like "The Room" or "Samurai Cop".

I want the climax of this arc to be "Bronzy" riding his motorcycle to jump over a shark and then killing the stories villain by crashing the motorcycle into him

Everyone fears "Bronzy" is dead but then Richie has a genius idea

He fist bumps his chest and goes "EYYYYYYYY"

And it brings him back to life

[cyberghostface]

It's funny because in one continuity Archie gave his life to save his gay friend.

[donnblake]

I'm not saying that obnoxiously 'wholesome' Archie Christian Comics isn't a valid target, but it feels like it would have to be contextualized within a history of the property to really land. All the recent Archie media I've seen has leaned a lot further into 'self consciously edgy/'adult'."

(Which has not failed to produce its own risible moments).