
That’s been the best part for a lifelong Archie fan like me.” Peeling back the layers to reveal their true cores. Treating them as real people, in extreme situations. “The zombies, the witches, the other creatures of the night that will start popping up soon, but the real thrill has been telling these weird, deeply emotional, personal stories with these iconic characters.

“The horror stuff is obviously a lot of fun,” continues the “Afterlife With Archie” writer. “So to get the chance to tell this kind of story with them has been, well, it’s a cliche to say a dream come true, but that’s what it feels like.” “Archie and his gang have alway been my favorite comic-book characters - the Fantastic Four are a close second,” writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa tells Comic Riffs. Jughead gets bitten instead, turning into a zombie himself - and thus launches the contagion/horror tale in “Afterlife With Archie.”

The zombie dog goes home to Jughead, who thinks his canine pal has come back to life. Sabrina acts against the wishes of her powerful witch-aunts but fails to revive Hotdog - who becomes one undead dog. Jughead goes to the one person he thinks can help: Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Hotdog, Jughead’s pooch, has just been hit by a car.
