
Good Comics for Kids
December 17, 2020 by J. Caleb Mozzocco
Archie Andrews gets an unexpected rival in the form of the new girl in town in Archie & Katy Keene, by Mariko Tamaki, Kevin Panetta, and Laura Braga.
October 31, 2019 by J. Caleb Mozzocco
Jamie Lee Rotante and Sandra Lanz take Betty and Veronica all the way through the one year of school they've never completed: Senior year.
June 27, 2019 by J. Caleb Mozzocco
Mark Waid and company take Archie back to the year of his creation for a serious period piece in Archie: 1941
September 27, 2018 by J. Caleb Mozzocco
Gotham City circa 1966 was an almost ideal place to commit crimes. There were always museums, galas, and charity fundraisers to rob, there was a large pool of men of low character willing to adopt goofy codenames and uniforms in order to serve as henchmen, the place was lousy with raw material to build elaborate […]
October 4, 2017 by J. Caleb Mozzocco
Harley and Ivy Meet Betty and Veronica #1 Writers: Paul Dini and Marc Andreyoko Artist: Laura Braga DC Comics; $3.99 Rated T for Teen There are a couple of categories of inter-company comic book crossovers. There are those that sound ideal from the get-go and seem like perfectly natural pairings, like Batman/The Shadow or Lumberjanes/Gotham […]
July 5, 2017 by J. Caleb Mozzocco
Archie Crossover Collection Writers: Dan Parent, Alex Segura, Matthew Rosenberg, Angelo DeCesare and Ian Flynn Artists: Parent, Gisele Lagace, Jeff Shultz, Jim Amash and Rich Koslowski Archie Comics: $14.99 Archie Andrews and the gang have starred in some of the more memorable comic book crossovers of the last few decades—memorable for their sheer weirdness if […]
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March 8, 2017 by J. Caleb Mozzocco
Jughead, vol. 2 Writers: Chip Zdarsky and Ryan North Artist: Derek Charm Archie Comics; $17.99 Rated Teen The first collected volume of the new Jughead comic proved to be a perfect companion title to the new Archie comic, discarding the romance and teen drama to focus exclusively on the jokes and gags, as befits a […]
April 26, 2016 by Esther Keller
Back in August the Good Comics for Kids crowd discussed the release of the “New Archie,” a new series from Archie Comics. Recently, I noticed that the first six issues had been published as a trade paperback, and since I’m not a fan of single-issue comics (I hate waiting so long between issues to get […]
August 3, 2015 by Brigid Alverson
Archie Comics’ flagship title, Archie, made it all the way up to issue #666 before the publisher pulled the plug on the classic house style and rebooted the comic with a new look and a slightly more realistic tone. We all checked out Archie #1, written by Mark Waid (Daredevil) and illustrated by Fiona Staples […]
August 13, 2014 by Brigid Alverson
Kevin Keller, the first openly gay character in the Archie Comics universe, takes on a new role in issue #14 of his eponymous comic when he stops a crime… and becomes a superhero. As we noted when the news broke earlier this year, Kevin doesn’t have superpowers; like Batman, he’s an ordinary guy who works […]
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