Veronica, Veronica, a thousand times Veronica.
Betty played the tamborine, Veronica played the organ. That basically sums them up.
David Hutchings | 12.12.06 - 2:24 am | #

I don't get it - the top panel asks "blondes... or brunettes"... but the second girl has BLACK hair (well, black and blue, but this is comics)... ??!?
David | Email | 12.12.06 - 2:30 am | #

Veronica, cause she's rich. Also I think she has bigger boobs.
Aqualad | Email | Homepage | 12.12.06 - 3:11 am | #

I like Jughead!
Bully | Email | Homepage | 12.12.06 - 3:46 am | #

Definitely Veronica. I think she's a goer.
Colin Wilson | Email | 12.12.06 - 3:47 am | #

Betty. She would be better in bed.
Jim | Homepage | 12.12.06 - 4:07 am | #

Betty. I cannot for the life of me see Veronica walking into a comic shop with me without shuddering. Betty, on the other hand, is open-minded enough to accept me for the geek I am (*wub*)
gdaybloke | Email | Homepage | 12.12.06 - 4:29 am | #

Seriously, in comic book heaven, CAN'T I HAVE BOTH?
Droc | Email | 12.12.06 - 4:34 am | #

I like Veronica just because I like girls with dark hair. Never been much for blondes.
Luke | Email | 12.12.06 - 4:51 am | #

For hours of meaningless, empty, amazing sex: Veronica.

For marrying: Betty.
Kevin Church | Email | Homepage | 12.12.06 - 5:55 am | #

Why would Archie ever change what he already has? He spends most of his time mildly coddling the rich plate-smasher and when she goes off in a huff he can skip over to his pining neighbour's house.
joncormier | Homepage | 12.12.06 - 6:23 am | #

Veronica

For years I would have said "Betty", but I'm tired of innocent goody-types and being broke.

2 birds - one stone.

Just saying.

~P~
P-TOR
SanctumSanctorumComix | 12.12.06 - 6:31 am | #

I'm with Kevin. The Betty/Veronica debate is the same as the Mary Ann/Ginger debate. Before you answer, you have to specify 'for how long?'
Matthew E | Email | Homepage | 12.12.06 - 6:39 am | #

Please. We all know they're both just beards.

Archie longs for the embrace of Moose.
Dorian | Email | Homepage | 12.12.06 - 7:04 am | #

Normally I'm all about the brunettes, but in this case, Betty, Betty, Betty!
shortfatsteve | Email | 12.12.06 - 7:12 am | #

Betty. Good lovin' don't last, but good cookin' do.

Caveat: NOT the Al Hartley Betty, who is already married to Jesus.
Dave Merrill | Email | Homepage | 12.12.06 - 8:14 am | #

I married Betty. She's blonde, she's scrappy and she is smart and sweet.

But oh man do I see the appeal of Veronica now. Veronica had a little bad girl to her. She's sinister and selfish and if she wants you, then that means she will have you. That makes her so attractive in bad bad ways.

Still married Betty though.
Shon | Email | Homepage | 12.12.06 - 8:24 am | #

Veronica's way more attractive -- and yes, not the nicest person in the world, but honestly Betty's goody-goody thing gets to be a little creepy after a while. So yeah, I'm putting it all on Veronica. So to speak.
buttler | Homepage | 12.12.06 - 8:25 am | #

BIG ETHEL.

Okay, Betty.
Tenzil | 12.12.06 - 8:47 am | #

I don't think "for how long?" applies. Choosing implies at least some degree of permenance.
The horror of spending more than a couple of days with Veronica I cannot imagine.
Alan Brown | Email | 12.12.06 - 9:05 am | #

I like dark-haired gals, but in this case I pick Betty.
Jeff Rients | Email | Homepage | 12.12.06 - 9:31 am | #

Depends on if you're looking for a BDSM relationship or a more vanilla one, although Betty would probably be open-minded enough to experiment.
Chaz Ervin | 12.12.06 - 9:44 am | #

Betty, Betty, Betty, baby
Nik | Email | Homepage | 12.12.06 - 10:59 am | #

Veronica! Betty's sunshiney facade masks a grasping, selfish personality. She is nice in direct proportion to how much she stands to gain from you. Veronica is exactly who she is and makes no apology for it. They are like L.A. and New York. Both have a dangerous side but L.A. tries to hide it while New York flaunts it. I'll take New York any day. Of course I live in the Ethel Muggs of this comparison; Seattle. Alas.
philip | Homepage | 12.12.06 - 1:12 pm | #

Maybe she's too far outside the Betty vs. Veronica battle royale, but I'd go with Cheryl Blossom over either of those two little teases. Give me the hot redhead!
ignatiusmonkey | 12.12.06 - 1:20 pm | #

Archie has zero hope of wearing the pants, even part-time, in any relationship with Veronica.

Betty is the only hope for an equitable relationship, therefore: Betty.
Scipio | Homepage | 12.12.06 - 2:29 pm | #

That ignatiusmonkey is on to something, but red-on-red? combustible!
Redhead Fangirl | Email | Homepage | 12.12.06 - 3:00 pm | #

My wife played the role of Betty onstage once so I'd better say Betty. Hmmm...come to think of it though, I played Jughead, not Archie. What does that say about us?
booksteve | Email | Homepage | 12.12.06 - 3:16 pm | #

Your specific roles, or the fact that you participated in an onstage Archie performance? Or were you asking what the existence of an actual onstage Archie show says about our culture as a whole?
Chaz Ervin | 12.12.06 - 3:23 pm | #

Why take either when you could have Wendy. Shes got the magic touch of Sabrina, AND the sexy figure of Richie Rich!

In all seriousness (in this conversation?) though, Betty. Veronica is a Spoiled harlet that spends a little two much time with that Reggie fellow and any other man that walks within 50 yards of Riverdale High. Betty is nicer, more attractive, a better cook, and i get the feeling shes been around the block a few dozen less times.
EmployeeJosh | Email | 12.12.06 - 3:24 pm | #

Hey, Wikipedia says Cheryl Blossom ended up involved with Dilton Doiley. Go Dilton! I, too, dig me some Cheryl, but I think I still like Betty best in terms of who's the most dateable (also, least likely to dump you for your best friend the moment things get slightly less interesting for her).

I thought Anita Andrews from Jughead's Time Police was sort of cute, too, but seeing how she's a decendent of Archie, I can't help but think she's got the dumbass gene in her somewhere, just waiting to express itself.
Bill D. | Email | Homepage | 12.12.06 - 5:21 pm | #

Dear Sir:

This kind of foolishness is not what I come to this blog for. What is this infantile Archie "hot or not" crap? Give me the mature world of super-hero comics fans engaged in the astonishingly healthy, spirited, and informed debate about their favored medium that I have come to expect.

In short, kindly refund my admissions fee.
Chance | Email | Homepage | 12.12.06 - 7:35 pm | #

I so very very much wanted Betty when I was 13. Veronica was unapproachable and, frankly, spoiled.

I still say Betty Cooper.

I also say Betty Rubble, Mary Ann Summers, Power Girl, Peri Brown from "Doctor Who" and Counselor Troi.
Yorick | 12.12.06 - 7:43 pm | #

Midge, because forbidden fruit is the sweetest.

Seriously? I imagine Betty is like Alyson Hannigan in American Pie. Sweet as pie, but it's all "SAY MY NAME, BITCH!" in the bedroom.

Betty Betty Betty. She's a total Betty.
Dan Kelly | Email | Homepage | 12.13.06 - 7:32 am | #

I choose Pepper.

And if Archie longs for the embrace of anyone, it's Reggie, not Moose.
Steven | Email | Homepage | 12.13.06 - 10:14 am | #

Elvis Costello has never written a song titled "Betty" -- I chose Ver-roni-CAAAAAAAAAAH
milo | Homepage | 12.13.06 - 10:45 am | #

Wait, I want to change mine to Josie. She's a hot redhead, who is in a band called "The Pussycats" and also she sometimes lives in a spaceship. That, my friends, is the perfect woman.
Aqualad | Email | Homepage | 12.13.06 - 4:28 pm | #

Miss Grundy.
Jeffrey | Email | Homepage | 12.13.06 - 7:59 pm | #

I prefer brunettes, but I'd have to say Betty. She's a keeper.

Veronica, while fun (hoo boy! Hot AND rich?) for a while, is not.
cainmark | 12.13.06 - 8:44 pm | #

Both. At the same time. Archie's been in high school for 40 years now...it's like "Daybreak"...he keeps reliving senior year over and over and over again until he figures out a way to make it happen...
Aqualad | Email | 12.13.06 - 9:37 pm | #

I'd have to say Betty. I think you can fart in front of her without getting the stink eye (pardon the pun).
De Baisch | Email | Homepage | 12.14.06 - 9:14 am | #

As Elvis Costello said: "Veronica"
S.W. Flotson | 12.14.06 - 7:12 pm | #

Wait, I changed my mind. Archie should go with Samson Smythe.
Dan Kelly | Email | Homepage | 12.15.06 - 7:15 am | #

Betty will always be the winner. Why? Because a good girl has the potential to be naughty some of the time, which is infinately more of a turn on than someone who is likely naughty all of the time. Veronica would just get old fast.
Cheeseburger | Email | Homepage | 12.15.06 - 12:28 pm | #

Betty is kind of a wimp. Veronica is a control freak. Still it's Veronica if we are just talking a one time deal.
Shamus | Email | 12.15.06 - 3:44 pm | #

Well, this is interesting, because if we are talking about the standard look, then it's Betty for sure, but the Betty here - http://rogerowengreen.blogspot.c...ese- people.html - looks SO much like Britney Spears, I'd be forced to pick Veronica.
Roger Green | Email | Homepage | 12.21.06 - 12:15 pm | #

The correct answer is Josie McCoy.

... I can't do that? Fine.

Cheryl Blossom, then.

... What? Oh, fine.

VERONICA. What can I say? Good guys like bad girls. Works both ways, ya know.
Dario Delfino | Email | 12.21.06 - 2:41 pm | #

VERONICA times 1,000 FTW!
Ronnie | 03.21.07 - 7:10 am | #

this is like, a year too late...but who cares

VERONICA all the way
Kristen | 07.18.07 - 1:20 am | #