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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,[...]

Okay, she won't be the Bride Of Cthulhu like she is in Afterlife With Archie Buts she's a lot darker than you've seen of late. There's a retailer exclusive cover from Third Eye Comics. But it looks as if you'll be getting a little more for your money Not only is there four page gatefold cover, but[...]

As usual, the place was insanely packed but our reporters found their way through the crowds to bring you some of the best coverage on the internet. Avatar Press New Alan Moore, Max Brooks, Max Bemis And Justin Jordan Coming From Avatar Press Aspen Aspen Panel – Cosplayers, Cards, Hannibal Tabu And Kids Boom! Studios Paul Levitz Drops By The Boom![...]

 There was a new dynamic in the pr pattern for the week this year (and almost everyone who generates news in the industry shifted at once, it seems) that opened the window for this one to happen, and perhaps we'll get into that more later. But for now, yes, it's true — the most-read story during[...]

Heard at the Archie Comics booth at San Diego Comic Con. At the end of Life Of Archie #36, Archie Andrews is killed, shot by a bullet from a handgun. And yet the intended victim Kevin Keller, a veteran soldier trained in dealing with combat wounds doesn't attend to them. Neither does Kevin's husband, a registered medical professional. Archie[...]

You know, I really thought Archie Comics had run out of ways to surprise me with their comics Especially after getting responses in the local press such as this. Bless them. So I'm not sure what they'd make of Sabrina The Teenage Witch in today's Afterlife With Archie, after setting off a zombie apocalypse by using the[...]

We also take a look at four smaller publishers: Archie, Avatar, Zenescope, and Valiant. DC COMICS DC fell slightly from their April total, and was all over the place by category when compared to last month's stats In May 2014, DC released 75 comic books featuring 684 credited creators, 603 men and 81 women Here are their[...]

In for a penny… Here's the second print of the Life With Archie #36 comic… with the surrounding content knocked out into black and white. Grayson #1 has also getting a second printing with a recoloured version of the original Andrew Robinson cover. Harley Quinn #4 is also getting a second print, as are both Ms Marvel #4 and[...]

Today is the day that Archie dies Killed by a shooter, who trying to kill local politician and war veteran Kevin Keller for his pro gun control policies. But the comic, Life With Archie #36 Isn't actually about that, It's about the woman Archie truly loves Finally, in narration, Archie talks about who it is… Bettie[...]

Archie Comics had told us that Archie would die in the out-of-continuity-such-as-there-is Life Of Archie comic, that looks at a number of future and what if scenarios for the familiar characters, often taking a route down more serious issues of life, death and romance. Well, it goes for all of that on Wednesday in Life Of[...]

Peter Ernest Sailer, attending the NYC: Special Edition show for Bleeding Cool tells us, from the Archie panel, that big Archie boss Jonathan Goldwater confirmed that the Sony Pictures script to Sabrina the Teenage Witch was close to being finished and is expected in two weeks. I hope so, it's a couple of years since the deal[...]

As we heard from the Diamond Retailer Summit in Vegas two weeks ago, we are now getting some details and art from Archie Comics on their new Sabrina series. It will be written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and with art by Robert Hack The new series promises to show the teenaged-witch in a very different way, building[...]

Archie Comics have had a number of attempts to revive and republish the Red Circle line of superhero comic books with less than stellar results Beginning with the Shield created in 1939 for Pep Comics, The Black Hood and The Wizard, were relaunched in the sixties following DC Comics superhero revival, introducing The Fly and[...]

The current Afterlife With Archie comic began with Sabrina The Teenage Witch bringing Jughead's dog back from the dead with the Necronomicon and, inadvertently, unleashing the undead upon Riverdale with horrific consequences, death and destruction across the town. It's the most surprising Archie comic since the same-sex multiracial military wedding issue of Life With Archie. Well, it[...]

Afterlife With Archie #5, the zombie comic that could, is out tomorrow. Writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa tells Bleeding Cool "In earlier issues, Ginger and Nancy were sort of in their own forbidden love story Same with the creep-tastic Blossom twins, Cheryl and Jason Here, in Issue 5, we get to have a little more fun with these previously[...]

Here's a chance to discover why. Archie Digest from Archie Comics. Your free bargain! 100 pages of full colour Archie, paperback squarebound and digest size And the stories are – Archie staple Simple, groany-gag filled, they could come from any decade… and probably do I probably prefer my Riverdale gang as the undead, but they've been getting[...]

Jerseys will also be available in the team shop. But wait! There's more! Spider-man himself will be in attendance, "live and in costume in the concourse during the game." They got Spider-man! ARCHIE GETS A NEW CREATIVE BOSS The New York Times reports that the new Creative Officer for Archie comics is playwright and comic book writer Roberto[...]

He's now Archie's Senior Vice President- Publicity & Marketing. From an email response this morning after making enquiries… …looks like this story might be on the money then. UPDATE: Second shoe dropped on Twitter He's now Archie's Senior Vice President- Publicity & Marketing. From an email response this morning after making enquiries… …looks like this story might be[...]

Williams III, Marc Andreyko Fearless Defenders, written by Cullen Bunn Husbands, written by Jane Espenson, Brad Bell Life With Archie, written by Paul Kupperberg Young Avengers, written by Kieron Gillen Batwoman featured a lead lesbian character in a committed relationship It was criticised for dropping the marriage plot, but hiring a gay writer after Blackman and Williams walked may have won[...]