Comments on: Archie Comics

By: David

David — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:44:35 +0000

Have you noticed that the Archie comics contain only exclamation marks, question marks, three or more periods (in a row) and commas? Why must they be yelling all the time?

By: The Great Ganesha

The Great Ganesha — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:33:07 +0000

you can say that word again! in fact, i’ll say it: metsons! damn straight!

wonder what happened to the bald and demure sindhi gentleman who sat behind the counter?

By: Chapatikid

Chapatikid — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 04:53:19 +0000

I have just one word for you. Metsons.

By: The Great Ganesha

The Great Ganesha — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 01:35:11 +0000

@simple leaf: yeah, dude. i remember chacha choudhry, tinkle, chandamama, mandrake, the whole kit and kaboodle. in fact, someone had a posting about this several months back. i sent him to this website. check it out. it's hilarious. he even talks about johnny sako and the giant robot! -gg update: i think that website is offline, for some reason. that sucks. anyhow, this one should keep you entertained while the other one gets back online.

By: The Simple Leaf

The Simple Leaf — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:30:34 +0000

I always found the “double digests” much more satisfying….

Aaah, to be back in that world surrounded by Mandrake, Asterix, Obelix, The Phantom, Archie, Jughead, Shikari Shambhu, Nasruddin Hodja and Supandi!

Did you guys ever read Chacha Chaudhary? As a kid, it was my staple purchase at railway station book shops before every cross-country train ride.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/Chachachowdary2.jpg

By: The Great Ganesha

The Great Ganesha — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 13:09:39 +0000

hey kanchan,

totally agree – it’s ridiculous how expensive they are over here! once i saw one at the grocery store checkout somewhere and those thin mags were, as you say, $3.50 or something. damn! still, i splurged, for old time’s sake. call me a sucker, why don’t you?

thanks for dropping by though. glad you liked it…

By: Kanchan

Kanchan — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 04:43:38 +0000

I found yr blog via Sepia – was checking around reading random entries when I came across your Archie title..and this post just took me straight down memory lane. I was around 10 years and we lived in Mahim (or maybe Matunga?) – anyway, there was this lending library, like the kind you talked about in your blog and when my mum would go shopping on the weekend, she would give me Rs5 and I’d run to that library and get a supply of Archie comics for the week I loved those Comics and it was a standing order what I’d like for my B’day… fast forward some years and as a teenager, moved to a small town in Tennessee, and I just couldnt belive it – no one my age had ever heard about these comics and they just couldn be found in the local stores either. It was as if these comics didnt exist. When we visited Nashville, I saw one at the bookstore but gulp! it cost $3.50 something and as newly arrived from India, I did the math and didnt get it…..! Thanks for reminding me about this
PS – I like your blog’s title.

By: The Intellectual Masturbater

The Intellectual Masturbater — Mon, 22 May 2006 10:18:00 +0000

hey vijay,

as they say: great minds think alike!

By: vijay

vijay — Mon, 22 May 2006 10:08:00 +0000

I was most definitely Jughead. Love food and hate girld (angoor khatte)!

By: The Intellectual Masturbater

The Intellectual Masturbater — Mon, 22 May 2006 07:12:00 +0000

see now that’s the kind of quality humour i have come to expect from reading too many archies…;)

yeah – don’t understand this phenom of being silent…