One of the most enduring legacies of the otherwise forgettable 1960s Archie cartoon is the song Sugar Sugar performed by the band the Archies. Forming a band has been one of the constant themes of Archie comics through the years, perhaps not as big a theme as fighting over Archie, but when characters are locked perpetually in their high school years, that there are only so many story lines that can be pursued before they start repeating upon each other.
The video for the song (or at least the animated video) is pretty outdated in terms of what we consider good animation in the modern day, but some of the more memorable scenes (at least for me) are of the solo dancing of Betty or Veronica, which is essentially just filler for the sequence, similar to how in the old Spider Man cartoons that they would recycle the background in order to save on the money and time that it took to animate.
Fast forward to ... yesterday. Archie Comics #651 has the theme of "Rockin' the World". On the cover the girls are looking unnaturally up to date in their clothing choices, especially that the last time that they had as much focus on them being in a band that they looked like they belonged in a Sears catalogue. As always, it is nice to see Archie comics updating itself, even if it does it slowly, as sometimes Archie comics are better than the corny theme which they usually typify.
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