#44 - Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again

Well, if you’d seen my Facebook page, you knew this was coming. I’ve made no secret that I really enjoyed Mark Waid’s Archie reboot. A modernisation of the classic characters, which maintains the humour from the regular books and combines it with a certain amount of drama. Riverdale, I show I’m getting more into ups the drama and downs the comedy, honestly to its detriment.

Speaking of detrimental, this sh*t, Archie: To Riverdale and Back again was released in 1990 as potential TV pilot. It flopped in the ratings despite some praised performances and ultimately people lost any ability to care about it, I totally understand this. As I shall now demonstrate.

4 issue Test #22 - Jughead

In the latest title to enter the Archie reboot, Archie’s pal, Jughead Jones takes a title role. Given how enjoyable I’ve found Archie, I decided to take a look at this one. Much like last time, I’m not going to review covers because there are tonnes of them and I will riff on the side-stories at the end after the scores. I won’t be scoring them because they’re not original content and they’ve aged a bit since their original releases. With that said, let’s dig into to our favourite hamburger enthusiast in Jughead #1-4