Archie TV Series Moves To The CW

Staples is also the artist for the comic book series Saga, while Waid is known for his work on Superman comics. Yes, the 75-year-old comic book character has undergone a hipster transformation. They keep the book’s visuals rooted in Archie tradition by embracing a vibrant color palette, and incorporating lots of bright pastels gives the art an especially playful look.

But relaunching Archie with a new #1, a new creative team and a new direction has got to be their best stunt yet. Well, we can’t say whether that was true or not, and we’re not comic experts, but he certainly looks good. Betty will now sport low-riding jeans and is ” is more of a tomboy than before and is capable of expressing more complex emotions”.

“It was clear to me that Archie was moving down the path of irrelevancy”, Goldwater told Bloomberg.

Although this is not the first time Archie’s creators have tried something new, the complete makeover, which hardly resembles the old canonical design has raised many eyebrows. “Welcome to Riverdale“.

Have you ever been to Riverdale?

The book is broken into chapters, but they flow into one another naturally, and the story would lose nothing without the chapter labels. He insisted that Archie and his pals are super in their own way.

The comic book company also redesigned Betty and Jughead.

The first issue of the new “Archie” feels like the sort of teen sitcom that doesn’t get made anymore, a modern “Boy Meets World” but smarter, simpler, and hipper all at once. According to Waid, it all came down to finding the original DNA of the stories – and sometimes looking beyond the way the series has evolved in recent years. Goldwater is the son of the man who created the very first Archie Comic back in 1941.

Even past ties to one of the most popular redheads in comics, however, didn’t fully prepare Waid for the phone call he received asking him to return to Riverdale as a writer – on a project that would be like no other revamp Archie Comics had seen.

He’s still a freckled redhead, but he suddenly looks stylish and, well, handsome.

MARK WAID is no stranger to the land of Betty, Veronica and Jughead. Peary took a look at the cover of the new issue and pronounced himself pleased. They don’t need to; they just have to keep it up.

So how does the publisher top this stunt?