Preview: ‘World of Archie Jumbo Comics Digest’ #78

Today’s preview features an Archie character we weren’t familiar with: In the brand-new lead story to World of Archie Jumbo Comics Digest #78, Brigitte Reilly is—

Wait, who?

Brigitte Reilly is one of the lesser known characters in the Archieverse, but Wikipedia tells us she is an exchange student who has been around since the 1990s and is a good friend of Betty and Veronica. They even formed a band at one time, the Sassy Girls, but Brigitte was so good she went solo. She occasionally goes out with Dilton Doiley. And Brigitte is, as Wikipedia puts it, “amply contoured”: “Although she lacks the sexy appearance of most of Riverdale’s girls, she is not portrayed in a comical or unflattering way (as she might have in the early years of Archie), but has been made as attractive as possible.” In fact, she is well liked by pretty much everyone. So she brings a welcome bit of body-type diversity to Riverdale.

Oh, and she has just gotten her big break on Broadway, in a musical about a Founding Father! Read on for a bit of Brigitte’s new story as well as some classic Archie-ness.

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