Big praise to Ryan Cady and Thomas Pitilli for giving me a story about Big Moose that actually made me relate to the guy for the first time! It’s part of the three-story Big Moose one-shot. Mos...
It’s been a while since we’ve seen an issue of Afterlife With Archie, the zombies-attack-Riverdale title that contains “mature content” and only sells in direct market comic stores. Issue...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2015/05/07/afterlife-with-archie-8/
written by Dean Haspiel and Mark Waid; art by Haspiel The Fox first appeared as a character in 1940, so it takes a certain amount of guts to make your first story in his relaunch be about the nee...
I wasn’t encouraged when Afterlife With Archie was first announced, since I’m not a fan of zombies, and blending that type of monster with teenage hijinks seemed to indicate the publisher was...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2013/10/09/afterlife-with-archie-1/
written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa; pencils by Dan Parent; inks by Rich Koslowski I wasn’t sure what to expect when the Archie/Glee crossover was announced last summer, but I was pleasantly surp...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2013/03/08/archie-641-archie-meets-glee/
Branding four issues of the Veronica comic as a miniseries under a different name might seem like an odd thing to do, but it isn’t the first time Archie’s used an established title as a pilot...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2011/08/30/veronica-207-208-aka-kevin-keller-1-2/
Two recent Archie storylines have gotten them some press outside of the traditional comic sources. The first uses President Obama and Wannabe Palin to make some kind of point about appropriate an...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2010/12/25/archies-latest-headline-grabbers-death-and-politics/
Veronica #202 has gotten tons of press, as it was promoted for months ahead of time (since April) as a real milestone for Riverdale: it would introduce Archie’s first “openly gay” character...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2010/10/04/veronica-202-introducing-kevin-keller-the-new-gay-guy/
America’s Teenager Preaches for Spire Comics (This article originally appeared in Hogan’s Alley #16, March 2009.) Most of the larger American comic publishers are willing to create licensed p...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2010/05/14/archies-christian-comics/
Archie #605 completes the Archie marriage storyline that began in Archie #600. For 3 issues, we read the imaginary story of how Archie and Veronica got married and had twins. Then, it was Betty�...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2010/03/14/the-end-of-the-archie-marriage-storyline/
I was stunned when I found this story, cover-featured in Everything’s Archie #16, dated October 1971. I had no idea that Archie had tackled anything so timely. It didn’t turn out as all as I ...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2008/04/15/archie-gets-drafted/
It’s about time! Archie finally got around to collecting the first four issues of the Sabrina the Teenage Witch revamp, Sabrina #58-61 (2004), as a digest. Although the content is strongly mang...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2006/12/24/sabrina-the-teenage-witch-the-magic-revisited/
What an odd mix of stories. First, Archie’s featured in a magazine picture, and his new role as “teen model” goes to his head. Betty and Veronica teach him a lesson by convincing him to mak...
https://comicsworthreading.com/2006/06/06/archie-565-wrong-about-manga/