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Afterlife With Archie: when Riverdale met cosmic horror

30 April, 2015 — by Christopher Ratcliff — 3

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Just an all-American boy living the all-American nightmare.

If like me you were raised in a terribly small town in England during the 80s and had very limited access to American culture save for whatever early Saturday morning cartoons were shown on ITV, then you'll have no reason to have read or even heard of Archie Comics and its supremely apple pie vision of a sanitised American high school. However right now in the mutating, shiftless teen-years of the 21st century, Archie Comics is providing some of the most gruelling, captivating and deeply nihilistic horror in any form of media. So what the hell happened?

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Why I’m sticking with The Walking Dead against my better judgement

29 April, 2015 — by Catherine Thompson — 0

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Although despite being five seasons in, The Walking Dead could still learn some lessons from its comic book counterpart.

My true love of comics developed when I started to branch out into the non-Marvel, non-costumed branch of the comic book world. From the fascinating mouse themed exploration of a time spent in a concentration camp to the delicate, heart-achingly lovely coming of age story that is Blankets. I loved it all. Soon I found that artists and writers were doing things with comics that they couldn't get away with anywhere else, and boy can they go dark!