Riverdale Is Archie Comics

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Riverdale is archie comics. Riverdale may be based on the archie comics but it s darker and way more brooding than the book you used to know. It s a spoiler but jason blossom s murder dominates the whole first season only to end in an insidious reveal about the blossom s true lives in the original comic books jason blossom fared a much kinder albeit more boring. Similar to past episodes part four of caos included various riverdale easter eggs which makes sense since both series are led by showrunner roberto aguirre sacasa and the fictional towns of greendale and riverdale are in close proximity. It s a deliberate and definitive starting note that successfully established television s riverdale as anything but audiences expected from a modern day archie.

Riverdale is the setting of the stories in the archie comics universe. Archie 1941 was a five issue limited series from the creative team of brian augustyn mark waid kelly fitzpatrick peter krause and jack morelli published in 2018. It is usually depicted as a medium sized town possibly a suburb of a bigger city with all the usual amenities of shopping malls restaurants and parks. The comic reimagined the mythology of archie comics in the 1940s as the small town of riverdale and its residents prepared for the storm that was world war ii.

Set in present time riverdale is a subversive take on archie betty veronica and their friends exploring the surrealism of small town life the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath riverdale s wholesome façade.