Riverdale Book Review

The new, ninth issue of Jughead and Archie Comics Double Digest (not to be confused with the old Jughead With Archie digest which began in 1974) brings back a classic touch of Archie sexism that the series has missed for far too long. It’s the premise that Jughead hates girls. The lead story in the digest, “Mission Most Improbable,” not only uses this as a jumping-off point, it adds to the gender barriers by having otherworldly male imps firing love-arrows at the misogynist Jug, then declaring “We didn’t even know there was such a thing as a female Cupid.” Technically, of course, Cupid isn’t a thing, it’s the name of a specific god. But never mind. Good old woman-hating Jughead is back.