Review by C.J. Bunce Much like Hergé and his Tintin and Christin and Mézières’ Valerian and Laureline, another story read by millions of Europeans in the 20th century but overlooked by the masses in America is finally making its way overseas. This time its the villain Fantômas who is coming to America, the star of […]
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Remember Kresge’s? Western Auto? If not, some time travel may be in order. Or, beginning next month watch Archie Comics take Archie back to the year his character was created in a new five-issue limited series, Archie 1941. For 77 years Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica have been entertaining the world from their hometown […]
Review by C.J. Bunce If you’ve been looking for your next retro fix, this may be it. Archie Comics and DC Comics is bringing nostalgia into a new crossover arriving in comic book stores today with Archie Meets Batman ’66. Two characters first seen in 1939–and never before have they appeared together! A […]
If you are a fan of Italian comic book artist Francesco Francavilla, you probably make sure you’ve kept up with his work on series like DC’s Detective Comics, his creator-owned noir series The Black Beetle, Dynamite’s Zorro, Marvel’s Black Panther, Archie Horror’s Afterlife With Archie and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and loads of other series […]
Review by C.J. Bunce If you were an artist and asked to create a modern, retro poster based on John Carpenter’s 1982 cult favorite sci-fi/horror movie The Thing, what would be your centerpiece? Kurt Russell’s arctic helicopter pilot MacReady? The mimicking monster in one of its many phases? Maybe just the secluded facility among the […]
She’s beautiful. She’s deadly. She’s Vampironica. Next year Archie Comics’ Archie Horror imprint is adding a new title to its dark universe of stories that began with Riverdale television series writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Afterlife with Archie, then continued in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and this year’s Jughead: The Hunger. The new monthly series Vampironica will focus […]
If you loved CW’s new Riverdale series as much as we did, then you probably have a new appreciation for Archie’s pal Jughead Jones. The classic Jughead has always had an insatiable appetite, practically living at the Riverdale diner. Earlier this year Archie Comics’ Archie Horror imprint–the folks that brought us the brilliant […]
Centipede–It was one of the most addictive arcade and home video games in the first generation of video gaming. Technically a “vertically-oriented fixed shooter arcade game,” it was designed by Ed Logg and Dona Bailey for Atari in 1980. The player would defend against centipedes, spiders, scorpions and fleas, completing a round after eliminating all the segments of […]
If you’re enjoying CW’s new Riverdale series as much as we are, then you probably have a new appreciation for Archie’s pal Jughead Jones. The classic Jughead has always had an insatiable appetite, practically living at the Riverdale diner. Actually we wouldn’t be surprised to see him move into the back of the joint on […]
Next week Riverdale’s most famous band is getting back together. Archie Comics is releasing a new Josie and the Pussycats monthly series. Much like its release of its hit Betty & Veronica series this summer, Josie & Co. is getting a premiere with plenty of cover variants with works by J. Scott Campbell, […]
