Back from a week of traveling in northern Vietnam, and back to the random stack of unread comics!
Title: Mighty Archie Players: Free Comic Book Day Edition
Issue: 1
Date: June, 2009
Publisher: Archie Comics
Writer: George Gladir
Artist: Stan Goldberg
Editor: Victor Gorelick, Mike Pellerito
Four stories here, each one a parody of a movie genre, with the familiar Riverdale Gang characters playing the various roles.
"High Noonish" is a classic western, with Archie as the marshal, who is about to trade in his guns and badge for wedded bliss when three old enemies come to town looking for trouble.
The second story is "Snow White and the Three Giant Dwarfs", because apparently the Mighty Archie Players don't have much in the way of a special effects budget. The story follows the classic fairy tale with a somewhat more modern vibe.
Third is "Marcia the Mermaid" with Betty in the title role, and Archie as the love interest, Scuba Joe. This is a pretty straightforward mermaid romance.
Last up, and the funniest of the bunch is "Once Upon A Time Along the Nile", a Cleopatra (actually, Cleaopatricia, played by Veronica) drama that is loaded with awful (in the best sense of the word!) puns. This one had some humor that may be lost on younger readers, but had me laughing.
As with many of the recent Archie Comics products, this book does a nice job of working with the reader's familiarity with the iconic Riverdale characters, and allowing the writer to jump right into the different stories.
This was a fun book with some good laughs.
Rating: 7/10
Issue: 1
Date: June, 2009
Publisher: Archie Comics
Writer: George Gladir
Artist: Stan Goldberg
Editor: Victor Gorelick, Mike Pellerito
Four stories here, each one a parody of a movie genre, with the familiar Riverdale Gang characters playing the various roles.
"High Noonish" is a classic western, with Archie as the marshal, who is about to trade in his guns and badge for wedded bliss when three old enemies come to town looking for trouble.
The second story is "Snow White and the Three Giant Dwarfs", because apparently the Mighty Archie Players don't have much in the way of a special effects budget. The story follows the classic fairy tale with a somewhat more modern vibe.
Third is "Marcia the Mermaid" with Betty in the title role, and Archie as the love interest, Scuba Joe. This is a pretty straightforward mermaid romance.
Last up, and the funniest of the bunch is "Once Upon A Time Along the Nile", a Cleopatra (actually, Cleaopatricia, played by Veronica) drama that is loaded with awful (in the best sense of the word!) puns. This one had some humor that may be lost on younger readers, but had me laughing.
As with many of the recent Archie Comics products, this book does a nice job of working with the reader's familiarity with the iconic Riverdale characters, and allowing the writer to jump right into the different stories.
This was a fun book with some good laughs.
Rating: 7/10
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