Showing posts with label Moose. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 25 April 2017

#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.

Sunday, 29 January 2017

Riverdale Chapter 1 - The River's Edge review


So, the Archie universe is coming to TV in live action for the first time in over a decade. Being a massive fan of Mark Waid’s Archie reboot, I was interested to take a look, until details started coming out about the series and certain elements that I’ll address as this review goes on. Still pondering doing more with this series but for now, here’s my take on Chapter One: The River’s Edge