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

4 issue test #15 - Archie

Following me falling in love with Gotham Academy (which I still love btw, despite some schedule problems in recent weeks) I suppose it’s time to look at another non-superhero title. This time we look at Archie comics and their reboot stories. Archie is an interesting little guy, from stories of his day to life he’s crossed over with some really big names. He’s met the Ninja Turtles, the cast of Glee, and even the Punisher. But all of that’s been cast aside for the reboot, so we’re going to take a look.

2 things to get out of the way first. 1: I’m not doing reviews of the covers, there are 50 million different variants for each issue and I can’t be bothered with it. Second, for the main review, I’m going over the original content. At the end I’ll do a bit of riffing on the old Archie stories but content-wise they won’t factor into my overall results. So with that out of the way, lets take a look