1997 Betty & Veronica comic book cover surprisingly predictive

In browsing through my comic book archives I found an issue of Betty & Veronica Double Digest (No. 62, January 1997), published by Archie Comics. The issue’s cover features Betty playing a videogame against a typically cranky Veronica on an nondescript game system.

Maybe it’s the nature of the art but the controllers don’t have any wires. It’s either a wise prediction or fortuitous foreshadowing on the part of Archie artist Dan DeCarlo. Eleven years later and wireless controllers are the norm.

Another interesting bit of possible predicting is that…