Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 | Chapter 11 | Chapter 12 | Chapter 13
Chapter 14 | Chapter 15 | Chapter 16 | Chapter 17 | Chapter 18 | Chapter 19 | Chapter 20 | Chapter 21 | Chapter 22 | Chapter 23 | Chapter 24 | Chapter 25 | Chapter 26 | Chapter 27 | Chapter 28 | Chapter 29 | Chapter 30 | Chapter 31 | Chapter 32 | Chapter 33 | Chapter 34 | Chapter 35
Chapter 36 | Chapter 37 | Chapter 38 | Chapter 39 | Chapter 40 | Chapter 41 | Chapter 42 | Chapter 43 | Chapter 44 | Chapter 45 | Chapter 46 | Chapter 47 | Chapter 48 | Chapter 49 | Chapter 50 | Chapter 51 | Chapter 52 | Chapter 53 | Chapter 54 | Chapter 55 | Chapter 56 | Chapter 57
Chapter 58 | Chapter 59 | Chapter 60 | Chapter 61 | Chapter 62 | Chapter 63 | Chapter 64 | Chapter 65 | Chapter 66 | Chapter 67 | Chapter 68 | Chapter 69 | Chapter 70 | Chapter 71 | Chapter 72 | Chapter 73 | Chapter 74 | Chapter 75 | Chapter 76
Chapter 77 | Chapter 78 | Chapter 79 | Chapter 80 | Chapter 81 | Chapter 82 | Chapter 83 | Chapter 84 | Chapter 85 | Chapter 86 | Chapter 87 | Chapter 88 | Chapter 89 | Chapter 90 | Chapter 91 | Chapter 92 | Chapter 93 | Chapter 94 | Chapter 95
Chapter 96 | Chapter 97 | Chapter 98 | Chapter 99 | Chapter 100 | Chapter 101 | Chapter 102 | Chapter 103 | Chapter 104 | Chapter 105 | Chapter 106 | Chapter 107 | Chapter 108 | Chapter 109 | Chapter 110 | Chapter 111 | Chapter 112 | Chapter 113 | Chapter 114 | Chapter 115 | Chapter 116 | Chapter 117
Chapter 118 | Chapter 119 | Chapter 120 | Chapter 121 | Chapter 122 | Chapter 123 | Chapter 124 | Chapter 125 | Chapter 126 | Chapter 127 | Chapter 128 | Chapter 129 | Chapter 130 | Chapter 131 | Chapter 132 | Chapter 133 | Chapter 134 | Chapter 135 | Chapter 136 | Chapter 137
As Principal Featherhead cracks down on comics, Jughead's new assignment at Pep Comics leads to four different tales.
Tropes
- An Aesop: All four of Jughead's stories are 'morality' tales ending in death:
- Dilton being bullied by the jocks for not being good at basketball leads to him snapping and murdering them all, using their severed heads as balls.
- Archie giving into sexual lust and having unprotected sex with a stranger in the dark leads to him getting infected with leprosy.
- Betty not understanding that she is pretty the way she is and putting emphasis on vanity leads to a spider laying eggs in her hairdo, which hatch, bite and kill her.
- Archie playing Betty and Veronica leads them to brutally murder him so they 'no longer have to share'.
- Anthology Comic: Jughead is tasked with writing four comics and makes four separate morality horrors with a narrator introducing/commenting on them as a common thread. The genres used include:
- Psychological Horror: In the first comic, Dilton is severely bullied and suffers a nervous breakdown, resulting in him killing his tormentors.
- Gothic Horror: The second comic sees Archie seek refuge at the Blossom estate on a rainy night after his car breaks down. He ends up eagerly having sex with the elder lady of the manor's, in her words, lustful granddaughter, Cheryl. The next morning the lady reveals that Cheryl suffers from leprosy and that the lady intentionally sabotaged Archie's car so that Cheryl could have him, and now Archie is ill as well.
- Splatter Horror: The fourth comic has Archie as a cad juggling Betty and Veronica and bragging about it. When they discover he ditched them on Valentine's Day to take out Cheryl, and told the girls things about each other shared in confidence to avoid trouble, they team up and lure him with the promise of A Threesome Is Hot, only to drug him and cut his body in half with a saw.
- Derailing Love Interests: Jughead and Veronica's romance gets dropped before it got a chance to take off, as Veronica is put off by Jughead's misogynist depictions of women as either catty or murderous, only getting to fight over a guy. In the previous episodes, Jughead was seen fighting for and championing Ethel's right to draw comics and get a job doing so, as well as punching Julian Blossom for his misogynist comments about Ethel. All of which fit Angel!Tabitha's mission for him to help the universe 'bend towards justice' in order to save Riverdale. So, it seems like a left-field device to break them up, unless it's actually followed up on and '50s Jughead doesn't just stay a misogynist.
- Downfall by Sex: When Archie has sex with a stranger, he gets infected with leprosy.
- Gym Class Hell: Dilton is forced to make a basket and until he does his team has to run laps. Despite it being the coach's fault, Julian punishes Dilton by locking him in a locker even though Dilton is claustrophobic.
- Horror Host: The Key-Keeper, a creepy school janitor who pops in to introduce/comment on Jughead's comics.
- Mythology Gag: Not only is the decades-in-the-making Fanservice concept of Archie/Betty/Veronica polyamory touched on, but also the modern notion that the girls should ditch the sexist '50s Archie for dating and playing them both.
- Jughead suggests teens as a novel subject rife for comics exploration, alluding to him creating Archie Comics, which evolved from Pep Comics, where Jughead works.
- While Cheryl is a lesbian, still unbeknownst to herself and everyone in the '50s, her having briefly 'dated' Archie leads Jughead to write a story with the first depiction of Betty and Veronica jealous of her as the Third-Option Love Interest.
- Revenge via Storytelling: While not explicitly stated, Jughead's depiction of the actually innocent and kind Archie as a heartless, lustful creep, and Betty as a 'plain Jane' that nobody wants, could indicate his lingering emotional memory of Betty cheating on him with Archie, as he doesn't know in the '50s that something is brewing between them, and an innate desire to punish them, reflected in his stories.
- Sex Is Evil: Jughead's story about Archie sleeping with a stranger he can't see, which leads Archie to be infected with leprosy.
- Shout-Out: The Shining is referenced as Betty and Veronica quote the infamous Creepy Twins as foreplay to their tryst with Archie.Betty and Veronica: [in unison] Come play with us, Archie.
- Tales from the Darkside: The format of Jughead's four anthology comics are a reference to this series.
- Stuffed into a Locker: Dilton, who is claustrophobic and suffers a nervous breakdown as a result.
- Sweetheart Sipping: Archie does this on both his respective dates with Betty and Veronica.
