characters © AP. Posted by the Web-Ed on 12/04/2009.
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This eighth entry in our "Riverdale Spankings" series is probably the most unusual because of the way it
reverses our expectations regarding these characters. With these three, we would probably expect Betty to be the most submissive,
Archie (as the only male) to be the most dominant, and Veronica to be somewhere in-between. Instead, we see that even though
Archie is spanking a bound and gagged Veronica, Betty is clearly the one in charge, apparently directing the actions Archie
is reluctantly carrying out. Archie here is rendered not in the familiar Dan DeCarlo style, but in the earlier style of creator
Bob Montana, who seems to have based these characters on real-life people he knew during his high school days in Haverhill,
Massachusetts.
Apart from this reversal in hierarchy, there is the more general incongruity in seeing these characters, who epitomize American
wholesomeness, engaging in BDSM activities. This incongruity is somewhat heightened by having Archie wearing his clothes from the
strip's early days in the 1940's, when it was still drawn by Montana, and indicates the humorous
intentions of this cartoon.
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