We haven't had a weird Werewolf Wednesday prowlin' around these AEET parts in quite a while, so let's check in with the rip snortin' Riverdale gang in their new loony location high up in the Carpushian Mountains. It's a kooky, two-part, monster mash of the hairiest scariest order, and from the October 1978 issue of Life with Archie #198.
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That's a breezy read.
"Transertrania?" "Carpushian Mountains?" Those jokes were a bit tortured!
I like how obviously it's jughead from the splash. That's the one thing about the house style, characters are really recognizable no matter what artist is working on the strip.
I think "he's coming after all our food" is a pretty splendid way to dial back a Wolf Man tale. I guess it's pretty apt as well as whimsical--it isn't as if Europe didn't pretty much obliterate its wolf populations because they ate some of the sheep. Well, and also the dead bodies of those killed in territorial disputes along the Alsace-Lorraine border (and the like). I'd like to see a Mel Brooks movie made of this one.
TGIWW! (...although it's already Friday here.)
Well, it may not be Frank Doyle in his prime, but it's Stan Goldberg in full Dan DeCarlo mode doing a nice job with the art. Thing is I actually like later Goldberg when all the Archie teenagers start looking paunchy & middle-aged, like sitcom actors staying in a role too long... that later art, it's got it's own character...
An extra thing of note is Goldberg's got Big Ethel looking sexier than I'm used to. Between you and me, I feel more comfortable knowing Archie noticed, too.
Did I type 'It may not be prime Frank Doyle' or 'It may be prime Frank Doyle'...? I meant 'not'. Prime Frank Doyle would be something like mid-fifties to mid-sixties, to my limited expertise.
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