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Yesterday, Archie Comics launched a Kickstarter appeal to fund their new Riverdale Reborn line. Citing cashflow problems with their new Target/Wal-Mart deal as the factor behind needing to launch a Kickstarter to launch the new line. A couple of retailers took umbrage at this, but there were other creators and retailers who wanted to talk, including Mark[...]

This morning we were fast off the blocks, reporting the new line of Archie Comics titles for Riverdale Reborn to be funded by Kickstarter. Shortly afterwards, we received a response from Archie Comics CEO Jon Goldwater I understand that this will appear elsewhere but for  now, you can read it here. Take it away, Jon. We live in[...]

Earlier this morning, we ran a piece about the just-launched Archie Comics kickstarter funding offer to expand their upcoming relaunch of Archie Comics titles, including creators such as Chip Zdarsky and Adam Hughes. We also ran a letter by Archie CEO, Jon Goldwater, to explain why they were doing this. It didn't go down well with everyone… Jesse James[...]

As has Snake Eyes-killing GI Joe #214. Afterlife With Archie #8 goes to second print as has Rock N Roll Biohraphies: Slayer. While Nate Simpson's Nonplayer? With #2 finally on the way, #1 goes to 4th print. Unbeatable They're alive dammit Squirrels are strong as hell And the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #1 and #2 have gone to 3rd print and #3 and[...]

On the back of relaunching Archie #1 with Mark Waid and Fiona Staples, Archie Comics is relaunching the rest of their line from A-list creators. Chip Zdarsky writing a Jughead monthly series, with an as yet unnamed artist. Adam Hughes writing and drawing Betty And Veronica While this book will fit squarely in the new Riverdale universe, you can[...]

Time for beaches, barbecues, fun in the sun and… SHARKNADOS!?! That's right, get ready as Archie and the gang brave the storm of a tornado full a sharks that riffs off the pop culture phenomenon known as Sharknado! The story unfolds as sharknados are spotted on the "Feast" Coast! Our heroines have to figure out[...]

Mark Waid and Dean Haspiel do this in an artful, poetic way, and the development you'll notice if you've been following The Fox at Dark Circle/Archie is that the exuberant psychedelic splash of the first series with all its affirmation of love and faith is now transitioning into a more rugged, feet on the asphalt[...]

Mark Waid has been talking to Diamond about his upcoming revamp of Archie with Fiona Staples But it may be Jughead who is going through the retcongrinder more than anyone. He asks "What makes Jughead a loner? What in his backstory makes him such an oddball?" before clarifying "I've given a lot of thought—a LOT of thought—to[...]

The horror make-over of Sabrina the Teenage Witch continues with Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #2 written by Robert Aguirre-Sacasa and drawn by Robert

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moPz9rJzuGc[/youtube] Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show returns to Bleeding Cool, recorded at the one and only Astro-Zombies Comic Shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, hosted by Maxx MacLennan. They say: Bringing you discussions of all the new exciting books in comicdom. More comic talk this week than ever!  New graphic novels, the top 5 floppies, honorable mentions that didn't[...]

But this is also the first WTF in Archie Comics. The first drugs-induced fight scene, unless you count that time Jughead had too many oddly looking mushrooms on his pizza, and decked Reggie. The first bloody necksnap of a living person… zombies don't count). The first drugs drought…. The first drug dealing protagonist… The first heroin taking protagonist… The first cold[...]

They've given us gay interracial military weddings, necromancy, and the F word. Afterlife With Archie and Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina have been late Really late But they are getting a rebrand and rehype by issuing the next issues, #8 and #2 respectively, under a new Archie Horror imprint, with a third book to follow. Can I suggest[...]

Archie Comics is bringing their long running Archie series to an end with issue #666 this June The final issue will include the work of Tom DeFalco, Dan Parent, Fernando Ruiz and Pat & Tim Kennedy It will also feature 6 interlocking covers showcasing the Archie characters by Dan Parent. Ending the series makes way for the[...]

Jim Sokolowski, better known in the comics industry as "Ski", has left his position at Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Archie Comics, which he took up in 2012. I understand that this comics veteran, who was previously Chief Operating Officer at Marvel Comics and Executive Director of Publishing Operations at DC Comics, has returned[...]

I've just read the first issue of Black Hood, the new comic from Archie Comics' Dark Circle, reinventing their superhero comic books for a new audience The Final Order Cut Off is today. We previously mentioned that this would be the first Archie comic to, well, feature the F-word, but no one seemed to believe us[...]

Retailers have been informed that three Free Comic Book Day titles have all changed their guidance tags. Hatter M: Love Of Wonders, solicited as an All Ages title, will now be Suitable For Teen Readers. While Archie Comics' Dark Circle Comics #1 was solicited for Teen Readers but is now a Mature Readers comic Could it have[...]

It was launched in a flurry of publicity off the back of Afterlife With Archie Issue 1 of The Chilling Tales Of Sabrina, Teenage Witch was a hit in October and November 8th's issue 2 was eagerly awaited, promising the secret history her enemy, Madam Satan, and a rather racy scene, considering the publisher. But now it is January and[...]

Archie Comics is being relaunched and rebooted with Mark Waid and Fiona Staples on the new Archie Comics #1. There's plenty of press about it. But it's not just Archie's title. It's a  whole line of relaunched 32 page comics… Betty, Veronica Betty & Veronica, Jughead, Jughead & Archie, the Kevin Keller relaunch we already heard about… and we[...]

Afterlife With Archie still surprises me This week, it portrayed Betty and Veronica as a pairing with a not-very-nice history, closer to Heathers than the usual spats over Archie. But that wasn't my favourite panel, though I do admire it's composition and use of colour – the blonde of Veronica's family's hair cutting through the blues. No,[...]

This is a panel from a Marvel MAX comic. This is a panel from a DC Vertigo comic. In February, Archie Comics are launching Black Hood I am told that the title will veer into Marvel MAX and Vertigo territory, more so than Afterlife With Archie. Our hero is a drug addict hopped on pills and someone gets[...]

Some of the participants are IDW, Valiant, Dark Horse, Archie and Dynamite along with authors Clive Barker, Brian Keene and more Humble Bundle is a way to help support certain charities by purchasing a greatly discounted collection of ebooks and digital comics The more you donate the more books you get and you decide how[...]

He already has Arrow and The Flash on the air and Supergirl on the way… well now he's going to bring Archie, Betty, Veronica and Jughead to Fox with Riverdale Warner Bros TV and Berlanti Productions just made the script deal plus penalty for a script written by Archie Comics Chief Creative Officer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Named[...]

Publishers like DC, Marvel, Image, Dark Horse, IDW, Boom and more often tailor their PR campaigns to the FOC-date of many products, including suddenly adding a variant cover to a comic to push those last minute FOC sales, or suddenly adding a new discount for higher orders. Well, new to the line-up of publishers from next[...]

The Chilling Tales Of Sabrina #1 has sold out in the first issue from Archie Comics Similarly reinvented as a horror title along the lines of Afterlife With Archie, I understand that Diamond Comic Distributors has sold out of the first issue, with a second print to come I'm not given any sales figures but[...]

Hannah Means-Shannon is currently liveblogging the Diamond Retailer Breakfast at New York Comic Con. Where they have just announced Archie VS Predator, written by Alex De Campi, drawn by Fernando Ruiz. Archie goes on holiday and brings back a very interesting visitor to Riverdale…   Update – Here is the official word on this from Archie Comics: America's favorite teen meets the galaxy's fiercest[...]

So what will Archie Comics be announcing at the Sonic the Hedgehog and Mega Man panel at New York Comic Con? The below teaser image hints at a crossover even between the two characters titled Worlds Unite. This would be the second time the two characters have met with the 2013 12-part series Worlds Collide being[...]

A few folk were curious to see November solicitations for Archie featuring Afterlife With Archie Magazine #2 – when '1 had#t been announced What was it? What was going on? Well, retailers have just been told about Afterlife With Archie Magazine #1, an oversized reprint of Afterlife With Archie #1, the size that horror magazine used[...]

Classic Marvel and Archie Comic artist Stan Goldberg passed away at the beginning of the week Co-CEO of Archie Comics, Nancy Silberkleit offered her thoughts on the man Zam wham wow flowed through Stan Goldberg's veins Stan's style went beyond artistic talent, and placed him in the elite category of what we refer to as graphic[...]

Stan Goldberg, born in 1932, was a comic book creator who worked principally on Archie and Marvel Comics, including contributing to designing the look of Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four, working for as a colourist, penciller and inker He also worked as the principal Archie Comics penciller from the nineties until the the mid noughties,[...]