Archie: 1941

Archie: 1941 by Mark Waid
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Archie and the gang graduate and ponder their place in the world, just as the world is on the brink of war...

I've been chewing through my Archie backlog in the past few days. This one looked interested one of the times I fell victim to a sale at the Archie website.

So this is a really good story about the people that go off to war and the people that get left behind. The Riverdale gang is torn asunder when Archie goes off to war and everyone else is left picking up the pieces. It's also a great looking book. Peter Krause's art is a perfect fit for the time period and Kelly Fitzpatrick's coloring is understated, a good match to the story.

I have two gripes with this book.
1. It seemed rush, particularly in the last issue.
2. It didn't feel like an Archie story. It felt like a war story and someone just changed the names to the names of the Archie characters.

I enjoyed Archie: 1941 but I'm hoping the rest of the Archie historical series feels a bit more like an Archie book. Four out of five stars.


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