Afterlife With Archie #1 (2013)

This one is a real puzzler. After dealing with such conscious raising issues as homosexuality, interracial marriage, and cancer, it seems odd that we not get just a storyline but an entire new title. I mean we can't keep Betty, Veronica, or Jughead comics on a regular schedule but we can throw out a brand new title like that? And it's not like it wasn't inevitable that the Riverdale gang would have a run in with zombies. And thanks to a certain black and white independent title, the trend continues. So I immediately want to hate this book. But the truth is I can't. Oh sure, the storyline is straight out of a Steven King book, but there is a certain charm that Aguirre-Sacasa brings out. And it goes without saying that Francavilla's art is certainly creepy enough.