I don't know. I'm one of those people who really don't care anymore. I don't read Archie Comics anymore, and have already gathered enough stock knowledge to last the rest of my lifetime. Archie Comics is boring to me now, but I don't think Archie should marry one of the two girls, Betty and Veronica. I mean, as a reader, it would give me an interesting reason to start reading the comics again, but that excitement will fade and I'll start reading about Archie in a midlife crisis and about being fired from work. Boring. And I doubt ten-year-old girls and boys who decide to get into reading these comics will enjoy reading that, and they are the target audience (some may, but they are rare exceptions). But, speaking from the point of view of the publisher, it would really be unrealistic for them to drastically change something that's stayed the same for more than seventy years, and if you make Archie marry somebody, you take away the whole point of reading to the people who read Archie Comics just to know about his latest - albeit recycled - hijinks. The Archie Comics are kind of making the step forward though and making alternate realities for people like us out there, but they're unsatisfying.
That aside, I'm more of a Veronica fan, because Betty always seemed too needy and available to me (just my opinion). And, even as a Veronica fan, I don't want her to marry Archie (because I've always found Archie annoying). I would even prefer her to marry Jughead, but the best case scenario for me would be to have Veronica marry Reggie and have a whole alternate reality series based on that.
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