Kayla E.

But also, you know, my relationship with Veronica and her wardrobe isn't entirely delightful.

I mean, it definitely gave me some issues as a child.

I think that was just an early experience in feeling ugly in my body and fat in my body and tacky in my clothes.

I mean, no woman has the actual waist of Veronica.

I think it's the same with the Bratz dolls.

Ultimately, it was a gift, I think, R2 Comics, because it was one of the first things that showed me this foil against my own world, where I was like, oh, my room is dirty, and my clothes are dirty and hand-me-downs and not cute, and my world is not safe, like Riverdale.

So maybe there's something wrong with my world.

Because at a very young age, I started to realize it's something really bad.

Like, I was...

That something really bad was happening to me.

And I think that Archie really, I don't know, gave me the first sort of ways of thinking about that.

It's the story of my traumatic childhood told through the reappropriation of mid-century children's comics.

My fashion pages.

They are very, very direct replicas of the Betty and Veronica fashion pages.

And so often I'm just like clipping and saving these fashion pages both for my work, but also for my own personal attempts at making outfits.

So, oh my God, I think to this day, I'm still trying to be Veronica.

But that's the question.