![]() ![]() But it's by no means messy and uncomfortably sexed-up like Riverdale, which I think is what I was expecting and why I was suspicious. With the reboot, the publishers were clearly targeting a somewhat older demographic of teens and 20-somethings - I kind of doubt I'd have enjoyed these stories as a kid. But it's never so bad as to make it actively hard to read (*coughcough* Starfire). The art is not always my cup of tea there are several artists throughout the 12 issues collected here, and some of them are just too stylized for me. She's written so lovingly that the whole time between putting the book down and picking it back up, I was thinking about her and aching for her. Written by Mark Waid Illustrated by Fiona Staples, Annie Wu, Veronica Fish, Thomas Pitilli, Ryan Jampole, Andre Szymanowicz, Jen Vaughn, Jack Morelli Published by Archie Comics Yet again, Archie Andrews and his buddies have received a makeover. She's now a cute, tomboyish girl who is, as mentioned, growing into her femininity, but still into video games and fixing cars. Speaking of Betty, my favorite character is even better than ever. ![]() For instance, at first I was utterly unclear on why Archie was so jarred by his longtime girlfriend Betty's beginning to embrace femininity, but eventually it begins to make sense: he's afraid of change. The characterization is rich and on-point. (I'm still suspicious of the comic's current, post-Waid iteration.) But I found that Waid handled the series better than the writers whose Archie comics I grew up on - at least, from a grown-up reader's point of view. I grew up on traditional Archie comics - episodic and largely repetitive - and was suspicious, to say the least, of this reboot. It's honestly been a long time since I enjoyed a comic book this much. ![]()
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