I picked this one up because I enjoyed Jughead's Time Police and Jughead: The Hunger so much. I'm kind of a sucker so I took advantage of Archie's 50% sale on no less than four orders. Can Jughead figure out Principal Stanger's game before he gets expelled? Weatherbee the boot and everyone else detention. You can just take that idea and cram it with walnuts.Ī new principal arrives at Riverdale, giving Mr. I'm glad to be reading comics where a character is named Jughead.Īlso, I'm told that there have been attempts to update Jughead's hat to be a baseball hat. The in-continuity theory and the real-world theory. Which makes the cruelty that much worse because sometimes you're like, 'I gotta hand it to that kid, that was pretty good.' You're mad, but the anger is tempered by a little bit of the realization that some slams are just too good to pass up.Īnyway, all I've really got are two theories about Jughead's name. In the new continuity, Jughead got his name because he was once rich, then his father made a terrible investment in some sort of jug-related business, and the kids on the playground started calling him 'Jughead' as a result. Jaghead to Jughead? Why wouldn't he just be called Jaghead? Or Beanie? Or.anything other than Jughead, really.

And the assumption is that the name morphed into Jughead, just like Jughead's hat morphed into a crown as time wore on, adults didn't wear hats anymore, and kids stopped busting up their dads' hats and putting a bunch of stupid buttons all over them.ĭo I buy that theory? I dunno. So how did this get to Jughead? The kids who wore these hats were called 'jagheads,' not because they were fans of the military/law show JAG, but because of the jagged pattern created on their hats. Kids decorated the hats with buttons, and there you go! Button beanie. The resulting hat looked kinda like a crown. I read a great article about it (linked below), but basically, when a grown-up was done wearing a hat, like an old fedora or some crap, a kid would take it, flip it inside-out, and cut the brim off.

You know that crown he wears? Well, in the original comics, it wasn't a crown. It's a cup but different.īut THEN I found out how Jughead got his name!

There's a great joke in this book about Jughead's name, and it got me thinking.

Jughead, Vol. 1 by Chip Zdarsky