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Archie Comics 85th Anniversary Presents – Betty and Veronica Pin-Up Special #1

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  • Title: Archie Comics 85th Anniversary Presents – Betty and Veronica Pin-Up Special #1
  • Writer: Dan DeCarlo
  • Artist: Dan DeCarlo

Part of Archie Comics celebrating its 85th anniversary, Archie Comics 85th Anniversary Presents – Betty and Veronica Pin-Up Special #1 collects Betty and Veronica one-page pin-ups from over the years from artist Dan DeCarlo (with a few other artists sprinkled in here and there as well). Many of the shots feature one or or both the of the girls on the beach, but the special also collects both Betty and Veronica, along with others such as Josie and the Pussycats, and even Archie and Jughead in various activities including playing a round of golf, performing on stage, and fishing, lounging at home, or just walking around town.

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The Archies

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  • Title: The Archies
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The Archies

It’s hard to imagine a move loving recreation of classic Archie Comics than what writer/director Zoya Akhtar offers in The Archies. Tackling older comics can often lead to parody or darker and grittier versions, but with The Archies the classic characters and their town are uprooted and planted in 60s India to explore the oldest love triangle in comic books and offer a civics lesson to both our main character and audience about standing up for what is right. While I can’t see an American production leaning into the earnestness of classic Archie with such gusto, somehow the Anglo-Indian reincarnation of Riverdale fits perfectly.

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Riverdale – The Complete First Season

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  • Title: Riverdale – Season One
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Adapted from one of the longest running comic series, Riverdale brought the characters of Archie Comics to television albeit with a less wholesome vibe than their source material. In some ways it’s so unrecognizable, it took me some time to sit down and give the show a chance. However, despite the modern updates the show turns out to have more going on that you might expect.

The First Season introduces us to the core characters Archie Andrews (KJ Apa), Betty Cooper (Lili Reinhart), Veronica Lodge (Camila Mendes), and Jughead Jones (Cole Sprouse) providing various friendship and relationship drama and a mystery to solve involving the disappearance of one of their classmates. In terms of crime solving it delivers, and thankfully with a lack of supernatural causes (unlike The CW’s Nancy Drew.).

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Chilling Adventures in Sorcery

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Archie Comics offers up this only sorta spooky anthology one-shot for Halloween. “A Walk Through Hell” works to tie the various stories together. It stars with an intern, who turns out to be Archie, getting Madam Satan lost on the River Styx. She spends the rest of the issue trying to get to through the gates of Hell but not before running into another Archie character with a story to tell.

I was a bit surprised there weren’t more stories here, expecting to see various other classic Archie characters. In “Living On, Part Time” Archie takes a job as a security guard at the Riverdale Arcade which turns out to be full of monsters in what’s hard not to see rip-off of Willy’s Wonderland. And in “Midnight Shack” the overeating Jughead is eaten by the leftovers he brought home.

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