In this week's What Are You Reading?, I mentioned that Jughead Double Digest #182 includes a strange, surrealistic story from 1990, "Jughead's Diner." The Archie folks were kind enough to share a couple of pages with Robot 6 so you can see what I was talking about. The intro to the story is done in blue and gray tones, and when Jughead is transported, on the page above, the palette shifts into full color and the panels start getting crowded. It's written by Dan Parent (who later would create Archie's first openly gay character, Kevin Keller) and illustrated by Bill Golliher.

Like Archie's Mad House, this wanders off the Riverdale reservation but never gets too edgy. On the other hand, it's fun to see Parent and Golliher playing with the basic ingredients and coming up with new characters, even if most of them only have a few lines.