The new creative partnership aims to place the spotlight on an often overlooked part of the publisher’s library.
Leaving the audience wanting more is one thing, but leaving them unsatisfied, while sadly all too commonplace these days, is quite another.
Josie and the Pussycats is rock biopic in comics form, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
It’s her party, and she’ll scry if she wants to.
Archie has been a total lying dick. For the thick end of a century.
Archie Comics continue their “reboot” with perhaps their most daring departure yet from their reliable template…
Having attracted much attention and some controversy prior to its release, Archie 636’s “The Big Switcheroo!” turns out to be a gentle screwball comedy reminiscent of Thorne Smith’s whimsical supernatural romances of the 1930s.
New Crusaders is both an undemanding pleasure and a cunningly-crafted “entry-point” for a new generation of comics readers.
Put it this way; how would our American chums feel if a British writer depicted a tour group in 2008’s New York, using subway tokens (obsolete since 2003) to go to visit the twin towers of the World Trade Centre (famously destroyed in 2001)? I daresay they’d be miffed.
Alex Simmons is in the wrong job. Judging from the evidence in these two issues, he could make a lot of money as a spin doctor for America’s Republican Party.