The Great Ganesha

Let’s face it. All of us desis grew up reading Archie comics. And I’ve blogged about it before.

I was definitely an addict. I would look forward to going to the “library” (which, in 80s Bombay were basically privately run places where you could borrow books for cash) and picking up a stack of Archies. The “magazines” were good, but the “digests” were even better. I could go through a magazine in, like, fifteen minutes. In retrospect, it was almost like those things were made for “slow people” with the oversized graphics and lettering. But a digest, on the other hand, was packed with stories and could sometimes even be read over two sittings. [link]

With the lackluster humor and the incredibly thin plot-lines, I don’t think I can sit through another Archie today. But after reading this announcement, I could seriously consider it. Archie has gone multicultural with the addition of a gujju by the name of…(drumroll, please)… Raj Patel!

Well, I haven’t read it, so he may not be a gujju after all, and he may just be a “Hindu”-speaking “Hindi” but it’s good to see some of apna desh in the ol’ Archie comics, nonetheless. (via)