Archie Andrews, the comic world’s “good-hearted small-town hero,” will sacrifice his own life to “save” a friend at the conclusion of the series “Life with Archie.”
The shocking news about the “iconic” pop culture character was announced by “Archie Comics” publisher Jon Goldwater.
Archie will die in July’s “Life with Archie #36,” a forthcoming issue of the “flash-forward” series is exploring the “character’s life” after high school and college.
“We’ve been building up to this moment since we launched ‘Life with Archie’ five years ago and knew that any book that was telling the story of Archie’s life as an adult had to also show his “final moment,” Goldwater said in a statement.
“This story is going to inspire a wide range of reactions because we all feel so close to Archie. Fans will laugh, cry, jump off the edge of their seats and hopefully understand why this comic will go down as one of the most important moments in Archie’s entire history. It’s the biggest story we’ve ever done, and we’re supremely proud of it.”
Amazing! Such “stunning” realization that one’s “death” is the most important “moment” in one’s life!
This is going to have people lining up at the “ObamaCare” extermination camps in droves!
The subsequent issue (#37) will “jump” forward a year and look at how the rest of the Riverdale crew — “including his love interests Betty Cooper and Veronica Lodge, best friend Jughead Jones and friend/nemesis Reggie Mantle” — dealt with his death.
In recent years, Archie Comics has branched out into more “contemporary” story lines, including those involving its first “gay” characters, and nontraditional “spinoff” series.
For instance, the publisher teamed up with TV’s high school music show “Glee” for a crossover project, called on “controversial” Girls creator Lena Dunham to pen a four-issue story and waded into the “horror comic genre” with the series “Afterlife with Archie,” which features the Riverdale gang encountering things like “zombies, other undead creatures and magical incantations.”
Well, Archie hasn’t been the same since Veronica and Betty found out they were “gay and got married” and Jughead “converted” to Islam.
It breaks my “heart” to learn that Archie, the “freckle-faced” teenager who has graced comic books since 1941, is “going to die.”
At last, he no “longer” has to suffer “interracial and gay” relationships.
