They are, kinda sadly, in my opinion, starting up a non-ironic zombie comic starring the Archie comics called Afterlife with Archie.
It reminds me of the spot on parody of Archie and friends in the horror comic Hack/Slash; the first time Cassandra Hack visits them, a killer who thinks he is trying to punish evil (but really just likes killing people) introduces the cast to alcohol. In the second arc involving the Archie town, an extra-dimensional being finds the town boring, and unleashes Lovecraftian monsters on the town. There is an incredibly sad moment at the end of the arc where the Archie expy realizes that these encounters have irrevocably changed him and the town. The art shifts from Archie parody to the regular series art in a surprisingly effective visual metaphor for innocence lost.
And now it's happening for real. Or as real as fiction gets, I suppose.
They are, kinda sadly, in my opinion, starting up a non-ironic zombie comic starring the Archie comics called Afterlife with Archie.
It reminds me of the spot on parody of Archie and friends in the horror comic Hack/Slash; the first time Cassandra Hack visits them, a killer who thinks he is trying to punish evil (but really just likes killing people) introduces the cast to alcohol. In the second arc involving the Archie town, an extra-dimensional being finds the town boring, and unleashes Lovecraftian monsters on the town. There is an incredibly sad moment at the end of the arc where the Archie expy realizes that these encounters have irrevocably changed him and the town. The art shifts from Archie parody to the regular series art in a surprisingly effective visual metaphor for innocence lost.
And now it's happening for real. Or as real as fiction gets, I suppose.