The Undead Invade Riverdale in Afterlife With Archie

Archie Comics, publisher of the long-running series Life With Archie, announced today that they will launch a new, ongoing zombie series in 2013 titled Afterlife With Archie. A series that asks, "What if the zombie apocalypse began in Riverdale?", the series is written by former Marvel writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who also wrote Archie Meets Glee. AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE will provide readers with zombie-filled mayhem like only Archie can, taking the Riverdale gang where they've never been before – to the grave and back. Aguirre-Sacasa has also worked in the world of television (writer/producer on GLEE), Broadway musicals (Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark), and movies, penning the remake of Stephen King's Carrie, which premieres this fall. Before Carrie, he worked with King on Marvel Comics adaptations of The Stand. "Roberto's a superstar writer," said Archie Co-CEO Jon Goldwater. "Working with him on the upcoming Afterlife With Archie is the next step in the ever expanding Archie universe." "Afterlife With Archie combines two of my great passions: Archie comics and horror comics," said Aguirre-Sacasa. "This series came out of conversations with Jon [Goldwater], asking questions like, 'what if the Archie characters found themselves in a Stephen King novel like The Stand or a Sam Raimi movie like The Evil Dead?' Could we pull that off, tonally? We're really going for it. The first arc is called 'Escape from Riverdale.' The second arc is called, brace yourself, 'Betty RIP.' Of course, all the horror stuff will be balanced by elements that are quintessentially Archie."