Review 2: A marvelous done take on the archie unverse becoming infected with zombies and Jughead (or as he rightly is called Jugdead, becoming their leader. I'll definitely be picking up the Sabrina Cthulhu arc now as well.Even if you don't know or like Archie very much it still tells an interesting zombie story worth reading, if that's your thing. more 't hesitate to have my teenaged daughters read this.The five issues in this trade passed WAY too quickly and I want more. Definitely not the good old wholesome Riverdale we all know and love.That's not to say it went full Romero or Tarantino, though. They way they changed up the relationships of some of the side-characters dropped my jaw a few times. They made them more nuanced, flawed, and realistic as befits a zombie story. Christy used to pick up the digest Archie comics now and then so I was passingly familiar with most of the characters and the idea of taking them and sticking them in a zombie apocalypse sounded hilarious and fun.It exceeded my expectations.These aren't the plain vanilla Archie characters you might be familiar with. I'd seen discussions of it floating around on the internet and was mildly interested. Review 1: Our comic bookclub at work chose this for the October book.
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