This year, the Archie Comics group released 2 mini-comics
for Halloween ComicFest. The first is Afterlife with Archie #1. It’s a reprint
of the series premier of the same name. In that comic, Jughead’s dog Hot dog is
hit by a car and killed. Not wanting to let him go, he seeks out Sabrina the
Teenage Witch to bring him back to life. The result is a zombie dog that bites
Jughead and then starts a rampant zombie apocalypse. This book is bloody,
gorey, and not you typical Archie Comic. In fact, I believe that it got a
rating of Teen or Teen+. So, if your child receives this book in their
trick-or-treat goody bag, use extreme caution before letting them read it.
Now, if your child
were to trick-or-treat at our house, they’d get a different kind of Archie
Comic. This book stars Archie’s girlfriend’s Betty and Veronica. This story
also involves zombies but in a much tamer way. The girls decide to have a
sleepover on Halloween watching scary movies. Knowing that Archie, Reggie, and
Jug will try to scare them, Betty and Veronica turn the tables on the guys by
dressing up as zombies. It’s one of the better Archie freebies that I have read
in a while with a pretty funny story and with the exception of characters in
make-up, it’s not gory. Nor do any characters use incantations to raise the
dead.
I was really surprised that Archie Comics released this book
as I had read that Betty & Veronica were to be discontinued early next
year. Maybe that was a rumor. Anyway, I find it odd to advertise something that
you’re going to cancel within a couple of months. Maybe this is a way to drum up interest in Riverdale’s beauties.
Worth Consuming
Rating: 9 out of 10 stars.
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