Though there is a preponderance of Betty and Veronica erotic fan art, Larry Welz's Cherry is really, really the girl from the wrong side of the tracks from Riverdale. Cherry and her cohorts fuck their way through everyone and everything, and think nothing of it. I think that's really the magic of Cherry and her world - she's the original girl who gives no fucks. If something feels good, or has the potential to feel good, she's good to go. I think I'd have to think a lot more about the series before I said it was a feminist comic, but Cherry definitely has a significant amount of agency in her life. While titillation is definitely one of the intents of the series, there's also a slight dissonance as we watch a female character pursue sex the way that we're used to seeing male characters pursue sex. From that perspective, I suppose, we can see this as espousing feminist ideals.
And I'm gonna stop there before I inevitably put my foot in my mouth.
More to come...
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