legacy

A couple more instances with Veronica parading in front of Betty. The first she, I guess, is just fishing for a compliment, the second has her preparing for a winter trip to the tropics. A sign of the dysfunction in the relation, though, is shown when Betty fishes for compliments from Veronica --

Nothing but insults. Veronica just toys with Betty.

Bizarre move of word balloon in third panel -- now it looks like the random walker by girl is the one answering Archie's question.

Actually can't figure what the line down Betty's sweater is. It matches nothing in the rest of the story.

Weird is out. Animal hoarders were complaining.

And because weird is out:

Weird is out. Animal hoarders were complaining.

And because weird is out:

Veronica is a bad influence on Betty --

Funny thing. To spell out "an IBM Machine" is to say "an International Business Machines Machine". In a change made at some point three decades or so back, IBM actually now officially stands for nothing -- it is just three letters. Maybe there is a metaphor in that -- I do not know.

The word "computer" apparently does not spring to mind in 1962. Had it, we could have solved that redundancy problem. This makes that change to IBN all the more perplexing -- because had they dropped that change in the first place, that too would solve the two machines rubbing against each other trouble.

Mexico has to reiterate a "wherever we are".

This story has been ret-conned into the universe where Betty has a cat named Caramel (or Carmel if she talks quickly) and not into the universe where her cat is Max.