Riverdale #11

Not Canon-Friendly, Icky Plotline

Tally one more issue under “literally cannot possibly have happened between episodes” and cross-reference it with the footnote??”I keep asking myself why I'm reading these and lack a solid answer.”

In this issue, Reggie takes influence from a popular movie which he namedrops multiple times (yet miraculously??nobody recognizes) as he spins a wicked web of deceit just to guilt Josie into being his prom date. Jughead makes the semi-obscure references I expect from him and sleuths around to get to the bottom of the situation. But Archie, Betty, Veronica, and in fact the entire town are all gullible idiots. They fall for his scam without bothering to do even a cursory Google search and suddenly Reggie is on local public access television, rumours are all over the school, and he has everyone's sympathy for something which never happened.

Also, Archie has Reggie's car. It was given to him. Tell me again how these things supposedly happen between episodes...? There isn't even much continuity between issues of this comic, seeing how all the kids who should be sick with mono are magically better.??

I'm not a fan of Reggie being portrayed as downright despicable this way, or of this plotline. Yuck.