Not Quite As Terrible As Advertised.

My bud Joey Manley snarks a little about the Archie Comics weekly contest. Or more specifically, he snarks about some advertising copy for it that now seems to be removed: "Many legendary creators like Mark Waid, Neal Adams, and Tom DeFalco got their start at Archie Comics."

The actual contest is a kid's fanfic challenge, nothing less, nothing more... and there's nothing terribly wrong with that. It was only the copy that made it sound like Archie was falling all over itself to join the Zuda/Platinum axis.

Of course, Archie's online efforts continue to show the naked desperation of a middle-aged father's hip-hop video. (Fanfic contests? How cutting-edge... for 1995. But wait! There's hope! Archie has a Typepad blog now! Updated twice monthly!)