Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 7, 2015 18:28:58 GMT -5
Having seen a well done preview of a current issue and having noticed that the first trade was both unavailable at Amazon and going for stiff prices on ebay, I found a cheap copy thanks to abebooks... and wow, I am really impressed with Afterlife with Archie.
Just as with Life with Archie, the long established characters need no introduction and that allows us to care about what happens right from the start. The plot is both straightforward and intelligent, and the use of Sabrina as the starting element of the zombie apocalypse was very clever. Writer robert Aguirre- Sacasa knows how to write horror, and I'm not talking about the zombies here... one of the characters has done something terrible, and his guilt is awesomely presented.
Three cheers for Dilton Doiley, too, who unlike the characters from the Walking Dead on TV knows exactly what a zombie apocalypse looks like!
I don't know how long this title will run; probably no longer than a year (comic-book time), but I intend to keep reading it (and grabbing the Sabrina horror comic as well, thanks to its great Rosemary's baby vibe).
As a publisher, Archie has had a lot of good ideas over the last few years.
Just as with Life with Archie, the long established characters need no introduction and that allows us to care about what happens right from the start. The plot is both straightforward and intelligent, and the use of Sabrina as the starting element of the zombie apocalypse was very clever. Writer robert Aguirre- Sacasa knows how to write horror, and I'm not talking about the zombies here... one of the characters has done something terrible, and his guilt is awesomely presented.
Three cheers for Dilton Doiley, too, who unlike the characters from the Walking Dead on TV knows exactly what a zombie apocalypse looks like!
I don't know how long this title will run; probably no longer than a year (comic-book time), but I intend to keep reading it (and grabbing the Sabrina horror comic as well, thanks to its great Rosemary's baby vibe).
As a publisher, Archie has had a lot of good ideas over the last few years.
