Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #246

In "The Outspoken Word," Veronica defends her blunt honesty as a virtue—until a new girl at school returns her candor with a dose of her own sharp tongue. The moment she’s on the receiving end, Veronica must confront what it truly means to be outspoken.

When Reggie hatches a prank to make Veronica think she’s gained weight by slipping her a pair of slacks two sizes too small, the joke backfires in a way no one sees coming—Betty’s determined efforts to shed the extra pounds turn her into the school’s most unlikely athletic star.

In "Final Test," Veronica grapples with a surprising challenge: learning how to act like someone who isn't rich, after her father pushes her to mingle with the "unrich"—a term she insists on using, even as Betty gently points out that most of her friends are just middle-class. When Betty reveals that true "unrich" people wouldn’t use a twenty-dollar bill as a bookmark, Veronica is stumped—and suddenly eager to learn how to be convincingly, authentically unrich.