Vampironica New Blood #2
Archie Horror #2
Written by Frank Tieri & Michael Moreci
Creative Consultant: Jesse Goldwater
Illustrated by Audrey Mok
Coloured by Lee Loughridge
Lettered by Jack Morelli
Previously...
Veronica Lodge is back home in Riverdale, back to living the normal teen life she had before an all-out war with vampires and werewolves ate up her time. However, returning to “normal” means that she’s still a vampire, just like her parents Hiram and Hermione and her ancestors before her, dating all the way back to the earliest vampire in Riverdale: Sir Francis Lodge. Veronica’s doing her best to come to terms with this news, but she doesn’t have time to dwell on her situation—there are more vampires in Riverdale now, namely the nefarious Fangs Fogarty and—much to Veronica’s surprise—Kevin Keller!
While I am still waiting to see whatever happened to Afterlife with Archie I will more than happily keep this series in my embrace while I wait. Also finally seeing Kevin taking a larger in one of these makes me happy in ways you'll never realise. That he's a vampire is cute and that growing up being both gay and a vampire oh yeah that had to be hard and well there are so many things one can say about all that but I will restrain from that. Still I am absolutely in love with this book and now that we're back from the Werewolf world things are heating up.
I am a huge fan of the way that this is being told. The story & plot development as seen through the sequence of events unfolding as well as how the reader learns information is exceptionally well done. There are a few moving parts happening within the story and to see them all at various stages of development is fascinating. Even more so since this only a four issue arc, which means hopefully some will be spilling over into the next arc. The character development is as good as it gets and the way we learn about these characters, who and what they are, who is listening to whom and meeting the new characters all have this great amount of characterisation so that we want to see more of them. The pacing is superb and as it takes us through the pages and reveals the twists and turns we are kept riveted in place because it's like if you move you'll miss something. Yes it's a comic, you can take it with you but that feeling is definitely there. The overall structure of this book and how we see the whole ebb & flow of the book showcases the talent, skill, ability, imagination and creativity of the guys minds.
I think that the interiors are absolutely smashing! The linework is amazing and how we see the varying weights being utilised to bring out and highlight the attention to detail is lovely. The faces and facial expressions are so evocative as they appear on the verge of manga to me. While I will always want to see backgrounds being utilised what we see is extremely well done and the way they work in the composition inside the panels bring out the depth perception, scale and overall sense of size and scope is spectacular. More so once Ronnie and Dilton go exploring. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show a superb eye for storytelling. The colour work is rather lovely as well. I like how we see the shading, highlights and shadow work here with the various hues and tones. The special attention paid to the underground yeah, good golly this is bloody brilliant work.
This is what comics are all about. Being transported to another world and putting a twist on familiar characters and thus creating something new and exciting to it. I want to live in this version of the Archie multiverse because honestly as much as I love the original this is far and away the most exciting and romantically evocative version we have ever seen.
Archie Horror #2
Written by Frank Tieri & Michael Moreci
Creative Consultant: Jesse Goldwater
Illustrated by Audrey Mok
Coloured by Lee Loughridge
Lettered by Jack Morelli
Previously...
Veronica Lodge is back home in Riverdale, back to living the normal teen life she had before an all-out war with vampires and werewolves ate up her time. However, returning to “normal” means that she’s still a vampire, just like her parents Hiram and Hermione and her ancestors before her, dating all the way back to the earliest vampire in Riverdale: Sir Francis Lodge. Veronica’s doing her best to come to terms with this news, but she doesn’t have time to dwell on her situation—there are more vampires in Riverdale now, namely the nefarious Fangs Fogarty and—much to Veronica’s surprise—Kevin Keller!
While I am still waiting to see whatever happened to Afterlife with Archie I will more than happily keep this series in my embrace while I wait. Also finally seeing Kevin taking a larger in one of these makes me happy in ways you'll never realise. That he's a vampire is cute and that growing up being both gay and a vampire oh yeah that had to be hard and well there are so many things one can say about all that but I will restrain from that. Still I am absolutely in love with this book and now that we're back from the Werewolf world things are heating up.
I am a huge fan of the way that this is being told. The story & plot development as seen through the sequence of events unfolding as well as how the reader learns information is exceptionally well done. There are a few moving parts happening within the story and to see them all at various stages of development is fascinating. Even more so since this only a four issue arc, which means hopefully some will be spilling over into the next arc. The character development is as good as it gets and the way we learn about these characters, who and what they are, who is listening to whom and meeting the new characters all have this great amount of characterisation so that we want to see more of them. The pacing is superb and as it takes us through the pages and reveals the twists and turns we are kept riveted in place because it's like if you move you'll miss something. Yes it's a comic, you can take it with you but that feeling is definitely there. The overall structure of this book and how we see the whole ebb & flow of the book showcases the talent, skill, ability, imagination and creativity of the guys minds.
I think that the interiors are absolutely smashing! The linework is amazing and how we see the varying weights being utilised to bring out and highlight the attention to detail is lovely. The faces and facial expressions are so evocative as they appear on the verge of manga to me. While I will always want to see backgrounds being utilised what we see is extremely well done and the way they work in the composition inside the panels bring out the depth perception, scale and overall sense of size and scope is spectacular. More so once Ronnie and Dilton go exploring. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show a superb eye for storytelling. The colour work is rather lovely as well. I like how we see the shading, highlights and shadow work here with the various hues and tones. The special attention paid to the underground yeah, good golly this is bloody brilliant work.
This is what comics are all about. Being transported to another world and putting a twist on familiar characters and thus creating something new and exciting to it. I want to live in this version of the Archie multiverse because honestly as much as I love the original this is far and away the most exciting and romantically evocative version we have ever seen.
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