Publisher Archie Comics - Review

Archie & Friends 153

This themed issue looks at four successive April Fools’ Days in the life of Riverdale High’s premier prankster, Reggie Mantle. Each story is by a different artist/writer combo, each a little different from the Archie ‘house style’ – retaining enough of the characteristic flourishes so that the characters remain on-model, but still giving a slightly different flavour to each tale.

Archie Firsts

This is a handsome hardback, with good reproduction, containing reprints of early Archie stories; a precursor to an already announced series of Archive volumes collecting Archie strips chronologically.

Veronica 202

It was with surprise, and not a little scepticism, that people heard the news that Archie Comics would be introducing their first openly gay character in Veronica #202.

Sabrina the Teenage Witch 58-100

Before Tania Del Rio became writer and artist, Archie Comics’ Sabrina title had been featuring the same sort of short stories as all of the other titles featuring the Archie Riverdale characters. The most important thing that Del Rio did was to tell a larger story over forty-two issues, something unusual anywhere, let alone at Archie.