Anyone else reading this? I got the first trade paperback the other day and was really impressed with what they did with the story. It’s very dark (and not just by Archie standards, either), though it does a great job at keeping an “Archie” feel even when characters are eating each other and killing their own zombified family members. The art is nice, again keeping the Archie vibe while making it darker using a muddy color palette of oranges, purples, and greens. It even includes an unexpected lesbian relationship that I thought was very well handled (in addition to gay character Kevin), and a creepy incest subplot. All the favorite Archie characters show up, though some of them don’t fare too well. You never really get the feeling that anybody (except maybe Archie himself–though even that isn’t guaranteed) is safe.
I’ll be picking up the rest of this series, and can’t wait for more to come out.
I’ve been reading the comics as they come out (not something I usually do anymore). Great series!
I read the first issue, and, while I kind of abstractly admired the guts it had to take for them to publish this, it was, ultimately, just one more goddam zombie comic.
To be honest, I never believed it would get as far as a fourth issue.
Good stuff…but not my cuppa.
(I confess to the low sin of searching for “Veronica Lodge” on Rule34…)
See, that’s one of the reason it worked for me–because I don’t normally read/watch zombie stuff. I haven’t seen Walking Dead or read the comic, nor any of the other famous zombie movies. Closest I’ve come is playing the original Dead Rising video game, which I loved.
But I like Archie comics, and have since I was a kid, and I love how the creators are doing things (like adding gay characters, or Afterlife) to keep it fresh for a new audience. And since I’m not neck-deep in zombie tropes, it’s all kind of new to me.
Will The Punisher return to put them down for good?
I’ve been buying the series, but I like to save up the issues until I have a somewhat complete story before reading it. The first several issues are in my reading pile now. It looks pretty interesting. I’ve also been buying and enjoying the “Married Life” series, in which two alternate story-lines explore what would happen if (a somewhat older) Archie married either Veronica or Betty. Word on the street is that either way, Archie buys the farm in this summer’s conclusion to both series.