If you think “Riverdale” is the first time Archie has gotten weird, you are very mistaken.
Much hoopla has been made in the media thus far about how the CWsRiverdaleseries is dark and foreboding.
Riverdale: A Haven of Sin?
How did such a thing happen?
Archie founder John Goldwater agreed, and the weirdest period in the characters history was off and running.
From a 2017 perspective however, these books are AMAZING.
And lets not forget the deeply offensive cultural appropriation.
So what does any of this have to do withRiverdale?
The answer can be found in the most popular (i.e.
Fractured innocence making its way in Archie pre-Riverdale?
Yes, and its something that this book excelled at.
Little Archieis a true contradiction.
It was also a place of random meanness, something Little Archie was both the victim and perpetrator of.
(Anyone else experiencing deja vu right now?)
Then something really interesting happened.
Elsewhere in the Archieverse, even Josie and the Pussycats were getting a piece of the adventure action.
Sci-fi stories were not off limits either… And Archie fans wouldnt have it any other way.
