It says more about my tastes, really. The only actual Archie comics I've sought out were Afterlife, Chilling Adventures, and Mark Waid's Jughead.
And yet before I read any of those, I still knew the characters and their relationships. Archie lends itself very well to interpretation because the creators have hammered out something iconic.
I'll admit the horror books don't do much for me but the Waid reboot was great (as was most of the other stuff spinning out of it) and its a shame Covid killed it.
Though the Life With Archie divergent futures were the thing that grabbed my attention first. Before that they were a they were mostly just something I knew about from cultural osmosis ... and the Sabrina TV show with MJH.
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Stuff from Archie artists like Die Kitty Die or ... really most everything Dan DeCarlo did outside of Archie.
And official stuff like Riverdale and the horror books.
Still, the fact that its one of the few comics still sold on newsstands gives it a pretty big cultural imprint in the US even today.
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And yet before I read any of those, I still knew the characters and their relationships. Archie lends itself very well to interpretation because the creators have hammered out something iconic.
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Though the Life With Archie divergent futures were the thing that grabbed my attention first. Before that they were a they were mostly just something I knew about from cultural osmosis ... and the Sabrina TV show with MJH.
(TGIF Salem would totally do this too)
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That one arc of US Avengers.
Early Patsy Walker.*
*Everyone was doing romance comics at the time but that REALLY feels like a gender-swapped Archie.
Dang, now I really want Gisele Lagace to draw Hellcat. Between Exorsisters and Eerie Cuties, she really seems to be great at weird magic stuff.