Title: Archie # 1
Publisher: Archie Comics/Oni Press
Written by: Ben H. Winters
Illustrated by: Fabio Moon
Colored by: Jason Wordie
Lettered by: AndWorld Design Lettering Studio
Cover: Stuart Immonen
Variant Covers: Travis Charest, Fabio Moon, Karl Kerschi, Khary Randolph, Kano, Dan Parent, Elsa Charretier, Mahmud Asrart with Matt Wilson, Steve Lieber with Jack T. Cole, Terry Dodson, Craig Boldman, Matt Harding, Oliver Dominguez, Garret Gunn, Nick Cagnetti, Fabio Moon with Angie Knowles
Price: $ 6.90 US
Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
Websites: www.archiecomics.com , www.onipress.com
Comments: “Rude Awakening”
Poor Archie. He does get a nice night of sleep, but then it is time for school, and, well, things do not go his way. At least he gets a nice, long sleep before everything starts going wrong. This is a pretty typical Archie adventure, with Archie getting himself into one situation after another.
“Yes, We Cannes!”
Veronica and Reggie look so different in this art style that you may not even recognize them. The story is all about making short movies for school. Somehow, Archie ends up making his own movie, and somehow it turns out to be great, even though it really is not.
The biggest problem here is the artwork. It is so awful that you can barely recognize the characters. The new art style does absolutely nothing for the story and makes the characters look completely wrong.
“Jughead’s Journal Part 1”
Jughead is thinking about his future and how Pops has affected his life. Once again, we get the new art style, and it really does not work. The girls’ heads are much too small for their bodies, and Veronica’s bottom is ridiculously oversized.
As for Jughead’s story, it does leave you hanging, but it is written in a way that makes you not really care. There is no real hook that makes you want to read Part 2 or leaves you with any strong feeling that you need to know what happens next.
This issue tries out a new art style, and unfortunately, it does not work. The characters are difficult to recognize, the proportions are often strange, and the artwork takes away from the stories instead of adding to them. The stories themselves are fairly typical Archie adventures, but the artwork makes this issue a difficult one to enjoy.
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