I wrote yesterday about the upcoming "
Archies World Tour" storyline, which will be starting in ARCHIE #650. I have also written some about Russia's anti-gay/"anti-propaganda" law and resulting calls for boycotts of the 2014 Olympics and the 2016 World Dog Show (
here and
here). Mix these two topics together and we now have a
Russian boycott by the Archies (according to Archie Comics writer/artist Dan Parent):
When asked whether he agreed with and supported a boycott of Russia, Parent instantly replied “Yes. Russia should be boycotted, so much so that actually in an upcoming special four issue story arch I’m writing the Archie gang are going to take a world tour to four countries. Russia was to be one of them. But they’re not going there now. They just can’t and they won’t. They love and support Kevin.
Part of me thinks it would make for an interesting story to have Kevin Keller tossed into a Russian detention cell for kissing his boyfriend Devon or for telling somebody "I'm gay." Or maybe
chased down by Russian thugs. But that might be too intense for an Archie Comics comic book!
