waist deep in the big muddy

Archie, Jughead, and Reggie get drafted to go off to Viet Nam in this week's Stupid Comics!




It's a penetrating look at an issue that seems far off to us today, but back when this was new many Archie readers were staring it right in the face, being inducted right out of high school to potentially go and fight the VC. The draft issue was literally tearing America apart, but kudos to Archie for tackling it anyways, even if they do struggle manfully to stay right in the middle of the issue.

Also in this story: hippy man-purse.