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It looks like the new Riverdale series will be kicking off with a dead body That's not something you normally associate with an Archie Comic The new series from Greg Berlanti feels as much like Twin Peaks as it does the town many of us grew up reading about Who is Jason and how does[...]

Riverdale is a modern take on the long running comic series and adds a bit of dark mystery to the mix The series debuts January 26th, 2017. https://youtu.be/us4I_Ej0ABUVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Riverdale (The CW) "Welcome to Riverdale" Promo HD (https://youtu.be/us4I_Ej0ABU) [...]

But let's look at that first Archie collection. Archie Andrews and all the folks of Riverdale got a modern-day reimaging  at the hands of Waid and Staples The teen feel more like what you'd see in any highschool across the country Archie plays the guitar, Betty plays baseball and works on cars, Veronica was on a[...]

By Joe Glass The cast of CW's Riverdale With just one month left before Riverdale, The CW's new series based on the Archie Comics universe and characters, it's time to ramp up the hype machine and what better way to start than a gritty, neon teaser poster. The show is going to be very different from what your[...]

A lot of people have been wonder who will play Archie's mom on The CW's grim and gritty teen drama starring the characters from Archie Comics: Riverdale Until now, we've been left waiting, despite repeatedly demanding: Well, the question has been answered, and as you may have figured out by reading the headline, it's 80s Brat[...]

The CW and Archie Comics have released a teaser trailer for their new series Riverdale that will be kicking off on January 26th. Riverdale is written by Archie Comics Chief Creative Officer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and produced by Warner Brothers Studios and Berlanti Productions and has been described as a subversive take on the classic Archie mythos[...]

Fans of Archie Comics waiting desperately for the sexy, gritty teen drama Riverdale can finally rest easy The CW revealed the show's release date today as part of its mid-season schedule Riverdale will air at 9PM on Thursdays, starting on January 26. Riverdale will push Supernatural's airtime up to 8PM, which will in turn bump DC's[...]

Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre Sacasa share a cast photo with the Riverdale High School seal as the CW series goes back into production on episodes two and three 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[...]

By Hugh Sheridan The Spotlight on Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa panel in SDCC just wrapped up. The Afterlife with Archie writer and showrunner of the upcoming Riverdale TV show was interviewed by Alex Segura and took questions from the audience. The biggest take aways: –          Sabrina the Teenage Witch "may very well" show up in the Riverdale TV show[...]

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 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[...]

Back in February, Bleeding Cool ran a read review of the then-draft pilot script for The CW's Riverdale 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[...]

We have our first look at KJ Apa as Archie Andrews in the upcoming CW pilot for Riverdale The image was taken by JustJaredjr.com and then shared by the Archie Comics twitter account Apa looks a lot like the recent redesign of the Archie character by artist Fiona Staples. Hey @kj_apa, we're digging the hair color![...]

Madchen Amik, the actress from many series like Damages, Californication, Twin Peaks, Gilmore Girls, American Horror Story: Hotel, ER and Gossip Girl, has landed the role of Alice Cooper in the upcoming pilot Riverdale for the CW. For those not familiar with the Archie comics that the series is based on, Amik will not be playing[...]

Vixen writes for Bleeding Cool, I'm pretty sure by now you've read Rich Johnston's thoughts and Joe Glass's thoughts about The CW's Riverdale script – and now you have to check out my take on the diversity aspect Riverdale is definitely full of drama, which is perfect for The CW One thing that is different from a[...]

By Joe Glass Much like Rich, I have had the pleasure of reading the pilot script for Riverdale, The CW's take on the Archie Comics world written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa And like Rich, I was completely blown away by it. My first thought was 'Is this for real?'…and it very much is[...]

The hyperviolent Archie/Predator crossover and the recent revamp of Archie and Jughead with A-list comics creators have continued that trend, and exploring a more modern mid-town America have made for engrossing reads. But the screenplay for the pilot episode of Riverdale, the upcoming CW series by Archie comic book regular writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa takes all that and does something even[...]

The television adaptation of Archie Comics called Riverdale has moved over to the CW The one-hour drama series produced by Greg Berlanti will join the home of three other of his series The pilot is being written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and will also be produced by Sharon Schechter and John Goldwater. The modern take on the well-known[...]

Bleeding Cool are, apparently, partially respnsible for the initial success and purchase of Shaknado after we flipped out over a one sheet seen skulking around the Cannes Film Festival. We apologise. Because that also means we are responsible for this. This summer, just in time for Syfy's Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! film, the Sharknado will also hit Riverdale, dropping sharks[...]

So if you haven't been following the folks in Riverdale, now is you chance to catch up. In addition to the amazing, limited-time 100 comics offer, the new apps feature all-new, easy to navigate interfaces and optimized retina display for iOS7 The new Android app features a completely rebuilt structure, resulting in an easier to use[...]

Though I'm not sure if I find a zombie outbreak in Riverdale more surprising than the fact that there is actual looting in the town That's right, actual looting in Riverdale. While Carl is growing so quickly into Rick II, he's now a confident of war strategy. But both comics have to give you something you once[...]

Time for Archie to hit the political controversy of the age full on. In an election year, when the bankers and businessmen are portrayed as both angels and demons, with neither side giving an inch, it's time for Archie to make his choice when Occupy comes to Riverdale The 99% or 1%? Unfettered capitalism vs social democratic? Betty[...]

Archie Comics continues to give more of a real life take on modern society for a young audience than it may have done so in the past, and in the process making the likes of DC and Marvel look like old fuddy duddies. In the new Life With archie, which has explored a number of these[...]

As earlier rumoured, it will tell the story of the global protest against massively unequal redistrubution of wealth and power, under the title Occupy Riverdale, echoing the Occupy movements present around the world. This continued the further progressive storylines from Archie of late that recently culminated in an interracial gay military wedding This time Archie moves[...]

Forget Before Watchmen, this is bigger. "OCCUPY RIVERDALE". With Occupy London, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Washington bringing political and economic realities to a mass population, putting the very nature of capitalism on trial and encouraging the kinds of conversations the previous generation just couldn't have imagined resurfacing. And now they are going to be discussed in Riverdale[...]

Can you believe such a comic book could have existed from Archie Comics just a few years ago? In Life With Archie #16, which looks at the world of a twenty-somthing Archie cast has recently created gay character Kevin Keller returning from war to get married to his partner in Riverdale And everyone turns up to[...]

Kevin Keller, Riverdale's first openly gay character, appeared in Veronica last year, created by Archie cartoonist Dan Parent, which also caused the comic in question to receive the first second print in the company's history. Well, sales, talk, and now the character is getting his own Archie title, joining Betty, Veronica, Jughead and Archie himself of[...]