Remembering all the lumps he's taken over the years by choosing one girl over another, Archie decides to cut his losses by asking Betty, Veronica, and Cheryl to the prom all at once! Of course, with two deviously determined rich girls in the mix, this 'Prom Showdown' will be one prom Archie and Betty will never forget! Then, Veronica decides 'That Takes the Cake' she bakes her mother a cake for her birthday. Finally, in 'Keen Competition' Veronica ramps up her home theater with the lastest movies - before they hit theaters! - and automated treats, but that just leaves Archie with more of his allowance to spend on Betty!
Betty and Veronica not only get "Fashion Fatigue" Archie to join them on an all-day shopping trip, but he loves every minute of it! How do they do it?! Next, in "Scents Make Sense," to increase spending, Mr. Lodge uses smells to get people into stores. But, as the #1 Shopaholic, is it Veronica's favorite perfume that accidentally does a better job?
When even Cheryl Blossom takes Veronica to task for being rotten to her, Veronica makes a demands of the Archie writers and editor - tell the 'Story of My Life.' From now on, she wants to be nice, but the editor has something else in mind! Can the writer stall Veronica long enough for her to come back to her senses, or has she exited her own tale halfway through? This story doesn't just break the fourth wall, it obliterates it! Then, break out the props and costumes, there's a new trend in town - 'Over the Top' theatrical prom proposals! 'The Make-Over': Veronica thinks 'The Make-over' is just what Smithers needs to win the girl of his dreams, but true love doesn't always come with a designer logo attached!
"Battle of the BFFs Part 3" Reigning "World's Greatest BFFs" Betty & Veronica judge the competition to determine the next greatest BFFs. Cheryl Blossom snares Ginger Lopez into her plot to best B&V by scheming her way through the contest. But will time on BFF Island prove to be too much for her manipulations? Continued from BETTY & VERONICA #249.
Just when it looks like winter is going to pass Riverdale by, Jughead gets an unexpected visit from Jackie Frost in his backyard! After freeing her from entanglement in Hot Dog's chain (don't ask!), Jackie takes a liking to her unlikely hero. But there's more to this damsel in distress than meets the eye. See if this cool chick can woo Jughead in "Chilly Reception!"
This collection of sixteen essays deals with the role of magic, religion and witchcraft in European culture, 1450-1650, and the critical role of the visual in that culture. It covers the relationship of humanism and magic; the intersection of religious ritual, orthodoxy and power; the discursive links between the visual language of witchcraft and contemporary anxieties about sexuality and savagery. The introductory chapter urges us to exorcise our tendency to reduce historical experiences of the demonic to forms of unreason created in a distant past. Only then can we understand the role of the demonic in our historical definition of the self and the other. Richly illustrated with 112 images, the book will interest historians and art historians.
As social media scholarship matures, early optimism has been replaced by a more complex and arguably gloomier picture of the role of digital media platforms in our lives. This incisive Research Handbook showcases the academic community’s responses to key societal challenges posed by evolving social media ecologies.
How did Europe's oldest political institution come to grips with the disruptive new technology of print? Printing thrived after it came to Rome in the 1460s. Renaissance scholars, poets, and pilgrims in the Eternal City formed a ready market for mass-produced books. But Rome was also a capital city—seat of the Renaissance papacy, home to its bureaucracy, and a hub of international diplomacy—and print played a role in these circles, too. In Papal Bull, Margaret Meserve uncovers a critical new dimension of the history of early Italian printing by revealing how the Renaissance popes wielded print as a political tool. Over half a century of war and controversy—from approximately 1470 to 1520—the papacy and its agents deployed printed texts to potent effect, excommunicating enemies, pursuing diplomatic alliances, condemning heretics, publishing indulgences, promoting new traditions, and luring pilgrims and their money to the papal city. Early modern historians have long stressed the innovative press campaigns of the Protestant Reformers, but Meserve shows that the popes were even earlier adopters of the new technology, deploying mass communication many decades before Luther. The papacy astutely exploited the new medium to broadcast ancient claims to authority and underscore the centrality of Rome to Catholic Christendom. Drawing on a vast archive, Papal Bull reveals how the Renaissance popes used print to project an authoritarian vision of their institution and their capital city, even as critics launched blistering attacks in print that foreshadowed the media wars of the coming Reformation. Papal publishing campaigns tested longstanding principles of canon law promulgation, developed new visual and graphic vocabularies, and prompted some of Europe's first printed pamphlet wars. An exciting interdisciplinary study based on new literary, historical, and bibliographical evidence, this book will appeal to students and scholars of the Italian Renaissance, the Reformation, and the history of the book.
