![]() ![]() Once again, as soon as Archie Andrews is present, the girls want to change to please him. While it is unacknowledged, they’re dressing the way Jughead dresses. The girls are smiles and hugging one another when dressing a like intentionally, walking hand-in-hand, and only ruined by the reminder that Archie Andrews exists and he’s going to pick one of them.Īt the end of the story, in their blue jeans and sweater, their body language has again changed confident and strong. Jughead, throughout the story, is encouraging a Veronica and Betty’s newfound unity. When Betty Cooper approaches Jughead for advice on what to wear, later in the story, not realizing the girls are specifically trying to dress different from one another now, Jughead remembers seeing Veronica comfortable in dungarees and an old sweatshirt, and recommends the same to Betty.īoth Veronica Lodge and Betty Cooper feel comfortable in blue jeans, a sweatshirt, and flats with plenty of room in the toe. Sororal solidarity poses no threat to Jughead Jones. In Sisters, this comes into play when Jughead is the only male unconcerned with and unthreatened by Betty and Veronica choosing to dress like and get along. In stories between 19, we see various attempts to clarify Jughead’s position, including references to if and when he may start to be interested in such things, and making it clearer and clearer that his issue is not with individual people or their gender. In 1962, Jughead was still self-describing as a, “woman hater,” while never actually hating, or even disliking women or girls, and simply being disinterested in romance or sexual engagement. At least in the realm of then-contemporary comics. In 2016, Chip Zdarsky confirmed Archie’s traditional best friend, Jughead Jones, be asexual. This lead story is framed around the titular Betty and Veronica deciding to dress just alike to show solidarity, to show freedom, to exhibit sisterhood. This is the traditional flux.Ĭase in point, Sisters, by Dan DeCarlo and Frank Doyle, originally printed in Archie’s Girls Betty and Veronica #81, 1962. ![]() She only hastily adds a line about two boys after. The infamous song, written in-story by Veronica Lodge, goes, “Veronica and Betty are going steady,” as Ronnie imagines what life would be like if her name came before Betty’s in common parlance. Tradition is to assume that all Archie characters are straight unless explicitly designated otherwise, however there is enough queerbaiting and straight male gaze homoerotica, that I am not exactly comfortable treating any Archie as default straight. By Travis Hedge Coke on JanuPatricia HighsmashĪ Queer Look at a Betty and Veronica Comic
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