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LOS ANGELES (AP) Archie Andrews will die taking a bullet for his gay best friend.The famous freckle-faced comic book icon is meeting his demise in Wednesday's installment of "Life with Archie" when he intervenes in an assassination attempt on Kevin Keller, Archie Comics' first openly gay character. Andrews' death, which was first announced in April, will mark the conclusion of the series that focuses on grown-up renditions of Andrews and his Riverdale pals."The way in which Archie dies is everything that you would expect of Archie," said Jon Goldwater, Archie Comics publisher and co-CEO. "He dies heroically. He dies selflessly. He dies in the manner that epitomizes not only the best of Riverdale but the best of all of us. It's what Archie has come to represent over the past almost 75 years."Keller's character first joined Veronica Lodge, Betty Cooper, Jughead Jones and Reggie Mantle in the Archie Comics spin-off "Veronica" in 2010. He later appeared in his own solo title. In "Life with Archie," Keller is a married military veteran and newly elected senator who's pushing for more gun control in Riverdale after his husband was involved in a shooting."We wanted to do something that was impactful that would really resonate with the world and bring home just how important Archie is to everyone," said Goldwater. "That's how we came up with the storyline of saving Kevin. He could have saved Betty. He could have saved Veronica. We get that, but metaphorically, by saving Kevin, a new Riverdale is born."
Goldwater notes that Andrews' passing isn't just a publicity stunt but also a lesson about gun violence and a declaration of diversity in the new age of Archie Comics."Archie is not a superhero like all the rest of the comic book characters," said Goldwater. "He's human. He's a person. When you wound him, he bleeds. He knows that. If anything, I think his death is more impactful because of that. We hope by showing how something so violent can happen to Archie, that we can in some way learn from him."
QuoteGoldwater notes that Andrews' passing isn't just a publicity stunt but also a lesson about gun violence and a declaration of diversity in the new age of Archie Comics."Archie is not a superhero like all the rest of the comic book characters," said Goldwater. "He's human. He's a person. When you wound him, he bleeds. He knows that. If anything, I think his death is more impactful because of that. We hope by showing how something so violent can happen to Archie, that we can in some way learn from him."
The irony of a man named Goldwater explaining a homosexual man's role in a story.
I'll try to explain.Around 8+ years or so, a timetravel forest appeared in Riverdale (named Memory Lane, of course) that was mostly used for milestone issues where Archie met his past self and the like. During another milestone issue, he spends his grad going down the opposite direction and winds up in a future after college. There are two of these futures, one where he marries Betty, one where he marries Veronica. (And some others that don't play into the series, like marrying one of the pussycats and having a mixed race baby) Eventually, according to the original issues, he was supposed to live happily ever after with kids in both timelines. But the event arc was so popular that it spawned a separate series that, as we see now, ignores the events present in the origin story.Said futures have similar running themes between them: Both feature Jughead running the local malt shop, Both featured an EVIL (Like cartoony evil) businessman named Fred Myrth that hates Riverdale, Archie and his ilk. Both feature marriage drama, with multiple couples. But then you have differences that separate the two. For example, in one universe, Veronica is presumed to be dead for a while, due to a plane crash. In the other, she's been arrested for fraud (Planted in by that EVILL *thunderclaps* businessman) and had just recently had her court case dissolved. In one timeline, Betty is part of a reality show about Reggie's car shop, while in another, she becomes a slave to her job as a temp teacher at Riverdale high. This isn't even getting into the downright bonkers shit that keeps happening. Like did you know that Dilton (Archie's nerdy friend) tried to blow up the world, while the other universe Dilton brought Archie to the multiverse where he and the multitude of other versions of him stopped the other universe's Dilton from blowing it up?
Will Earth-262 Archie be coming back as a Black Lantern?
Is that semen
"The way in which Archie dies is everything that you would expect of Archie," said Jon Goldwater, Archie Comics publisher and co-CEO. "He dies heroically. He dies selflessly. He dies in the manner that epitomizes not only the best of Riverdale but the best of all of us. It's what Archie has come to represent over the past almost 75 years."
I still don't understand how what I thought of as one of the most vanilla comics in comicdom is somehow DC level (possibly worse) in its multiverse complexity. Did some people take over creative while no one was looking or something?
