New Archie Comics Reveals Jughead’s an Asexual

Posted by at 9:26 am on February 9, 2016

At New York Comic Con 2015, Chip Zdarsky and Erica Henderson revealed that Archie Comics character, Jughead is asexual and now — in a scene from this week’s “Jughead” #4 — Jughead openly identifies as such during a chat with another student.

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“My view of Jughead is, over the 75 years [of his existence] there have been sporadic moments where he has dabbled in the ladies, but historically he has been portrayed as asexual,” Zdarsky said at an “Archie”-themed panel at NYCC. “They just didn’t have a label for it, so they just called him a woman-hater. But he’s not a misogynist — he just watches his cohorts lose their minds with hormones. People have asked me if there is going to be a romance if I’m writing Jughead, because I’m very romantic, and the answer is no, because there is enough of that in Archie. I think something like asexuality is underrepresented, and since we have a character who was asexual before people had the word for it, I’m continuing to write him that way.”
“There are people out there, and they come up to me in conventions, because I work on another book that involves sexuality [‘Sex Criminals’], and that’s one of the questions we get all the time. [There are] a lot of asexual readers, and they want representation,” he continued. “We want to put out a book in which people that aren’t necessarily represented enough in media can see themselves reflected in it in a positive way, so if you have an opportunity presented on a silver platter like Jughead, really, I feel like your responsibility is to go with that and serve that underrepresented reader.”

“It seems like his take was always it’s a waste of money to go on dates, not so much that like he hated women. Because he always hung out with Betty. They were always friends,” added Henderson.

“Jughead” #4 goes on sale Wednesday, February 10.

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