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?