Graphic
**vel of the
week: This 'Archie' kid is
going places
Confession: Until
This week, in two decades of living in America, I had never so much as picked up an
Archie comic.*
I hadn't really seen the need, to be honest. Glancing at their covers at supermarket checkouts over the years told me pretty much everything I needed to k**w — that Archie was caught in some sort of chaste high-school love triangle between girl-next-door Betty and s**oty Veronica; that Jughead was his oddball best bud; that the style and format basically hadn't changed since the 1950s.*
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Graphic **vel of the week: The comics world's answer to 'Hamilton'
So when Archie got a reboot in 2015 — and when my too-cool-for-school comics-reading friends started talking about the recent
Archie reboot in glowing terms — I was surprised. I was even more surprised to find myself reacting skeptically.
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