Dudes! I wish I’d said something sooner because I had a feeling about this but I didn’t want to go through my millions of Archie books to see if I was right and I ain’t finding nothing about it on the almighty internets (but I have the plague at the moment so maybe it is compromising my searching ability). In any case, the stars were in my favour when I reached for Archie Digest Magazine #116 tonight, because it had exactly what I was looking for.

But first, a little set-up:

A long time ago, Archie comics released the Riverdale High novels. I never got my hands on ‘em–sigh–but they often ran ads for them which featured an excerpt of one of the books in the regular digests.

Excerpted novel featured in Archie Digest Magazine #116?

Bad News Boyfriend.

In Bad News Boyfriend, Veronica meets Nick. He is, you guessed it, bad news. He’s all interested in Veronica for her money and makes passes at Betty when no one’s looking (the louse!). The excerpt seems to indicate that Betty will sacrifice her friendship with Veronica in order to save her (by stealing Nick away, I’m guessing).

The revamped B&V story is entitled Bad Boy Trouble, wherein Veronica meets Nick St. Clair.
The cover image of Nick from the RH novel looks EXACTLY like a 90′s version of 2007′s Nick St. Clair.
The RH novel was written by Michael J. Pellowski.
The scripts for the revamped B&V was written by Melanie J. Morgan
(Apparently Pellowski has written under the pennames Melanie and Morgan at different times! How about that!)

What a CA-RAZY bunch of coincidences, huh?!

Probably someone else called this ages ago (probably an Archie editor for all I know, hah), but I’m just going to pretend right now that I was the first and bask in that special feeling. Also I am going to pretend this entry makes me seriously cool and not really, really lame for devoting a huge part of my brain to Archie comics factoids.

Go me!

Okay, consider yourselves enriched or something while I go convalesce.