Getting through the pandemic one Archie comic at a time
Jillian Horton: Every night at bedtime my son and I read Archie. Amid the brutal COVID disruptions, I feel viscerally what he is drawn to: the containment of it all.
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Why Archie comics always mattered
Even before today’s reboot, Archie comics could be great. Here are some of its greatest arcs according to Jaime Weinman
With an EDM ban, Toronto gets ’Footloose’
Six Ways to Sunday: On a moralizing ban on a music that councillors didn’t care for, plus how we should feel about the death of Archie
Newsmakers ’09: Mergers
The year’s biggest mergers
They’re furious he chose Veronica
Even people who didn’t realize they were still fans care about Archie’s marriage proposal
Archie, Betty and Veronica: A Timeline
How we got to the famous comic book proposal
Comic strip bombshell!!
They ignored Vietnam, 9/11 and Iraq but Archie, Blondie and Co. sure are worried about the economy