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Archie Comics is heading for the Big Apple in a big way The publisher will be at the New York Comic Con 2016 (booth 1936) with new comic launches for Archie Meets Ramones and Josie & The Pussycats Plus we are only months away from the new Riverdale TV series on the CW All of this[...]

The Castle of Horror Podcast talks to comic book artist Greg Scott, whose cinema-inspired, gritty art will be adorning Season 2 of The Black Hood from Dark Circle/Archie Comics Scott talks about his movie habit, LA Noir, and the strangeness of urban life. Listen to this episode here: http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-99734/TS-1106517.mp3 Black Hood Season 2 #1 Script: Duane Swierczynski Art: Greg Scott, Kelly Fitzpatrick,[...]

It's a big month for Archie Comics as they introduce Cheryl Blossom into the New Riverdale universe, give Reggie Masters his own series with Reggie and Me, collect all the covers from the Archie and Betty & Veronica relaunches and offer up some #TeamBetty and #TeamVeronica merchandise. DARK CIRCLE COMICS THE BLACK HOOD SEASON 2, #2 "The Nobody[...]

Archie Comics has announced that their next revamped series will be Reggie And Me by Tom DeFalco, Sandy Jarrell, Kelly Fitzpatrick and Jack Morelli It comes out this December and focuses on Reggie Mantle DeFalco says that Reggie is his favorite character… even though he's described as a self-aggrandizing egotist, a sinister super-villain, a merciless monster[...]

Archie Comics have a new Josie And The Pussycats comic coming out From Marguerite Bennett, Cameron Deordio and Audrey Mok. And while Audrey Mok's cover portrays them as glammed up normal-ish young women…  J Scott Campbell, in a cover exclusive to his online store and con sales. prefers the impossibly thin and elongated versions. Wow, Josie's waist-to-toe length is twice that of[...]

The adaptation of the Archie Comic series is said to be a bit subversive and not quite the squeaky clean image of the comics. The series stars KJ Apa as Archie Andrews, Luke Perry as Fred Andrews, Lili Reinhart as Betty Cooper, Camila Mendes as Veronica Lodge, Cole Sprouse as Jughead Jones, Ross Butler as Reggie[...]

Here we have the solicitations for the comics shipping from Archie Comics in November 2016 Its starts with the introduction of a new character, Cheryl Blossom in Archie #14 and we get to see the fall out of the bad date between Jughead and Sabrina in Jughead #11 ARCHIE #14 Script: Mark Waid  Art: Joe Eisma, Andre[...]

Anthony Desiato (@DesiWestside) writes, Despite its name, the Archie Comics Forever: 75 Years of Storytelling panel eschewed looking backward and instead focused on all of the ways the company continues to innovate: a reinvigorated comic book line attracting top industry talent (including Mark Waid on the flagship Archie series and Adam Hughes writing and drawing Betty[...]

Archie Comics is pushing their new Josie and the Pussycats series in a unique way tonight On a celebrity episode of Cupcake Wars on Food Network, Adrienne Bailon, Julissa Bermudez, Charlie Carver, Max Carver, Ron Funches, Katherine McNamara and Emeraude Toubia will battle to created cupcakes for a party celebrating Jose and the Pussycats. Contestants will[...]

Hugh Sheridan writes for Bleeding Cool… The pilot for the new Riverdale TV series premiered in Ballroom 20 at SDCC last night. I guess the potential of the "Archie" characters for a teen-dramedy should be obvious and the WB mid-season series doesn't miss out on exploiting any of that potential In fact that may be its biggest[...]

Archie Comics has revealed their new Riverdale poster for the upcoming CW television series The poster will be available at the Archie Comics booth #1829 The pilot for Riverdale will screen at SDCC on Saturday July 23rd at 6:30 PM in room 6BCF The panel will include cast and crew from the series and is[...]

This October, Archie Comics is putting out a new crossover Archie Meets Ramones will bring the Archies (Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica and Reggie) and introduce them to the Ramones (Joey, Tommy, Johnny, Dee Dee) And it all takes place in 1970s New York City. The oversized one-shot is co-written by Alex Segura and Matthew Rosenberg with[...]

  Industry sources tell me that regular Archie artist Veronica Fish is no longer the artist on the ongoing title written by Mark Waid. She will still create covers and similar illustrations for Archie Comics but will no longer be the title's penciller after Archie #10, out on July 27th Fish stepped in as the regular artist after Fiona[...]

Archie Comics is headed to the San Diego Comic Con where they will be showing off the new Betty & Veronica comics, giving a sneak peek of the upcoming Riverdale television series and even offering up two exclusive covers for the convention. The publisher has three panels scheduled including one focusing on Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, another on[...]

Archie Comics has been having quite a resurgence over the last couple of years, first with the horror takes on their classic characters and then with modernizing them After the success of the relaunched Archie series, the publisher turned to Chip Zdarsky and Erica Henderson to relaunch Jughead Now the first six issues are being[...]

Archie Comics is teaming with Humble Bundle for a Sonic the Hedgehog 25th Anniversary comic bundle The deal brings together just under $300 worth of the longest-running video game comic book ever. Pay $1 or more and get SONIC UNIVERSE VOL 6: TREASURE TEAM TANGO, SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #264-272 & #276-279, SONIC UNIVERSE #45 & #55-58, and[...]

Here we have the September solicitations and covers coming from Archie Comics and their Dark Circle imprint The two biggest titles coming out this month appear to new Josie and the Pussycats #1 by Marguerite Bennett, Cameron Deordio and Audrey Mok while from the superhero line we get the first issue of The Black Hood[...]

Archie Comics has teased a partnership with famed designer Rachel Antonoff to launch Betty & Veronica fashion line. Antonoff is a fashion designer based out of New York City She creative ways to debut her designs, including as a murder mystery, as a sock hop, and in a dollhouse She also worked with Lena Dunham to promote her[...]

Archie Comics has a bunch of Sabrina news hitting all at once Starting off with the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #5 going back to print #6 gets a new release date and more pages and #7 kicks off a new six-part story arc. Issue #5 wrapped up the first story arc and sold out quickly in[...]

As Sega's popularity waned, Sonic has found his way into the geek pop culture along with Mario and Donkey Kong. Sonic has also been an on-going comic series from Archie Comics since 2002 having published well over 300 various issues over the last two-dozen years Now Archie is celebrating the creation of the character with a[...]

Archie Comics is expanding their New Riverdale line-up with an on-going Josie And The Pussycats series by Marguerite Bennett, Cameron DeOrdio and Audrey Mok The new series will kick off this September and focuses on Josie, Valerie and Melody, the foundation of their friendship and their rivalry with Alexandra Cabot. "I am incredibly grateful and outrageously[...]

Adam Hughes writing and drawing the series has gotten a lot of people's attention along with the successful modernization of Archie and Jughead already and the upcoming Riverdale TV series on the CW. The issue is set to ship July 20th and this retailer exclusive is priced at $19.42 in honor of the year Veronica made[...]

I was told by Archie sources that it was pretty close to what was filmed. Here, then, is a repeat of what we ran back in February With the newly released image for the show… That and the plot summary seem to pretty much match what we read: As a new school year begins, the town of Riverdale[...]

Big month for Archie Comics as Josie and the Pussycats pop up in Afterlife with Archie, Sabrina the Teenage Witch makes her new Riverdale debut in Jughead #9 and we get a look at issue two of the new Betty & Veronica by Adam Hughes Plus there's a whole lot of Sonic the Hedgehog going[...]

This week Archie gets political as Veronica's father, Hiram Lodge, runs for Mayor of Riverdale Is this Mark Waid's chance to comment on the current political climate as he has a rich man running for office and no one knows if he will save the town or destroy it? ARCHIE #8 Veronica's father (and Archie's arch-nemesis!), Hiram Lodge,[...]

Now we get word that hoopla has reached an agreement with Archie Comics to offer titles from their three imprints including the revamped Archie and Jughead; video game favorites like Sonic the Hedgehog and Mega Man; and Archie's Dark Circle comics featuring superheroes like The Black Hood hoopla digital will also add the newly announced Betty[...]

This weeks marks the 75th anniversary of Archie Andrews and his friends finding their way to the comic book page On Wednesday, the Archie 1000 Page Comics 75th Anniversary Bash will hit stores with covers by Dan Parent, Rich Koslowski and Rosario 'Tito' Peña And at 75, Archie may be at his most popular with the[...]

I'm reading a bunch of comics coming out for Free Comic Book Day ahead of release. Beginning with Archie Comics, which reprints the Mark Waid/Fiona Staples Archie Comics #1, which genuinely was the freshest, most vibrant and appealing version of the Archie world I had ever been exposed to… Until I read the Riverdale pilot script which[...]

The big news out of Archie Comics recently was the announcement of the latest reboot, Betty & Veronica and that Adam Hughes will be writing and drawn the series The first issue is among the July 2016 solicitations along with the latest issues of Sabrina, Archie and Jughead. SABRINA #6 THE ONGOING SERIES CONTINUES – "Familiars" is[...]

Archie Comics has released the 25 covers for their Adam Hughes written/drawn reboot of Betty & Veronica The book is set to ship on July 20 with a regular cover by Hughes, a blank sketch cover and then 23 variants. Betty & Veronica #1 CVR A Reg: Adam Hughes Betty & Veronica #1 CVR B Variant: Mahmud[...]