Story here.
Basically, Archie Andrews is going to die, as a way to end one of his comic book series. But the others will continue, with him in the canon. The “death issue” is actually going to feature two endings…one where he was with Betty, and one with Veronica.
Personally, I’ve never read an Archie comic in probably 30 years. Never really got into him. I DID like the song they recorded. But not the version from the movie.
Life With Archie has been featuring two future storylines since the current title started in 2010. I thought that got as much attention as the final issue, frankly. As did the issue a while back where Kevin Keller got married (his husband is a nurse who took care of him after he was injured in a war zone, IIRC).
Archie Comics have been running various alternate-world series for some years now, with different levels of comedy and melodrama and continuity in each. In one series, Archie is married to Betty; in another, to Veronica; in still another, Sabrina the Teenage Witch’s magic has accidentally unleashed a zombie plague on Riverdale (I kid you not). they’ve also published crossovers with the band KISS and the cast of *Glee *(but not at the same time). This is just another series following that trend. (Life Without Archie, perhaps?)
I read a handful of Archie Comics in the sixties and seventies, but it wasn’t until my niece got into them about ten years ago that I started paying attention. A lot of the old stuff seems better than I remembered it. The current “mainstream” Archie titles are fluff even by the old standards, but the Life With Archie offshoots actually aren’t bad at all.
This is the same title. Life With Archie, the one that this story is about.
To tl;dr the story: Life With Archie, the title that’s been running since 2010 with parallel stories about two versions of Archie’s future, one each where he’s married to Betty and Veronica, is ending this July. In the final issue, Archie will die (in both timelines).
Also, Afterlife With Archie, the zombie series, was also mentioned in the article (though the writer obviously hadn’t been told more than the bare premise).
I put this down to anti-ginger prejudice. :mad:
Tell me about it. We always had comic books to read – Archie, Sad Sack, Sugar & Spike, Casper, Wendy, etc. – on family road trips to Chicago and points north in the '70s. I looked at an Archie Double Digest a few years ago and was surprised at what Riverdale had become.
Ran across two boxes of Archie digests that my brother and I bought in the 80’s…flipped through a little but didn’t have time to mess with them much.
One mild afternoon this summer I’m going to go sit outside in a lawn chair, with a beer cooler on one side and a box of 100 Archies on the other. See which gets empties first.
So I click on the thread and think “Oh, they’re ending the strip”.
Then I click on the link and think “…”
I…
…Dafuq happened? I mean, I haven’t read Archie much since I was like 10, but still… Point stands. Dafuq happened?
Well, we all know the Punisher is the one who killed him.
Archie will never die. Archie lives!
Ah. I see. I didn’t click on the link above until just now. I read another article earlier in the week that led me to believe that they were starting a new series in which Archie died and the Riverdale cast had to carry on without him. I didn’t realize that they were ending the existing series.
Isn’t there another alternate series where Archie is having a romance with Valerie of Josie and the Pussycats? Or was that just a one-shot issue?
You might be amused by this 2012 blog post by Life With Archie writer Paul Kupperberg.
It’s actually quite good.
Two issue storyline in Archie, issues 633 and 634. It also showed brief glimpses of timelines where he married just about every woman generally his own age in Riverdale and surrounding climes, ranging from one panel to a page. (The Sabrina bit had a very Bewitched feel to it.) He was shown to be happy with everyone except Cheryl Blossom.
While Porgie Tirebiter hasn’t had any new material written for him in decades. Where’s the justice?
Can it be a really, really painful, disgusting, and humiliating death?
Please?
You should take that concern to the RIP Mickey Rooney thread (I’m sure I needn’t explain why).
As several people have noted, Archie isn’t really going to be killed off. All they’re doing is ending a single series, which started in 2010, and features an “alternate” version of Archie where he got married and became an adult. The regular Archie series will continue with Archie alive and well.
I’m looking forward to Cyborg Archie, Last Son Of Riverdale, Archieboy, and… ???
Having Archie die in the very last issue of Life With Archie is kind of cute, but frankly I’d feel more than a little bit pissed off if I was a fan.