Alas, poor Archie! We knew him well.
Archie Andrews, the orange-haired comic book icon, will meet a fate more suited for a Shakespearean tragedy than the funny pages. Mamaroneck-based Archie Comics announced Tuesday it will kill off its star character in the July edition of the “Life With Archie” series.
Archie will die sacrificing himself to save the life of a friend. No word if it will be Jughead, Betty, Veronica or someone else.
“Archie has and always will represent the best in all of us ”“ he”™s a hero, goodhearted, humble and inherently honorable,” Archie Comics publisher and co-CEO Jon Goldwater said in announcement on the company’s website. “This story is going to inspire a wide range of reactions because we all feel so close to Archie.”
DC Comics famously killed off Superman in 1992 only to resurrect him less than a year later. Archie Comics won”™t have to undo Archie”™s death, though, since it will take place in a flash-forward storyline that isn”™t considered part of the accepted Archie canon.
The entire “Life With Archie” series shows what might happen to the gang from Riverdale after high school and college. The series will wrap up after a five-year run with issue No. 27, the edition after Archie dies, which will show how his friends deal with the loss in the year after his death.
Archie Comics found success with another ongoing alternate timeline title, “Afterlife With Archie,” which puts the gang in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies.
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