Also, giving yourself a nickname is never a good look, says the guy calling himself “Mikester” online for, like, decades now.

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So Archie, the fella who usually has two or more pretty young gals pursuing him at any given time, gets some unsolicited advice on how to handle women from a guy who clearly knows what he’s talking about:


Archie being Archie, he of course takes this advice, laying his cool new ‘tude and his new hairstyle on Veronica:


Surprisingly, it doesn’t work like it does for the Fo–excuse me, for “Funzee,” so the Arch moves on to his next supposed conquest, Betty:


…whose father has the appropriate reaction:


Archie isn’t a complete dummy, however, and abandons his attempt at TV star coolness, just in time for his ironic comeuppance:


Aw, poor guy. Don’t worry, Arch, your time will come soon enough:


 
 

images from Archie Giant Series #461 (September 1977) – also reprinted in the Archie Americana Best of the Seventies trade paperback

4 thoughts on “Also, giving yourself a nickname is never a good look, says the guy calling himself “Mikester” online for, like, decades now.”

  1. If there’s one thing I know about Archie comics it’s that you never take the advice of a character who only appears once.

  3. If you hadn’t put the publishing date at the bottom of the post, I would have assumed Archie Comics finally got around to a “Happy Days” reference some time around 1989.

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