Thursday, April 10, 2014

Comic star Archie to die 'heroically' – but he won't be gone for good

Archie Comics publisher confirms plans to kill off Archie: 'It's the biggest story we've ever done, and we're supremely proud of it'

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Internationally known: Archie comics on display at Oxford Book Shop in Calcutta, India, in 2007. Photograph: Bikas Das
Archie Andrews, the clumsy lothario whose freckled face is among the most recognizable in American comics, will meet his end in a bloody incident this July.
Not much is known about how or why, though the creative minds behind Archie Comics have apparently chosen a "heroic" way for one of their most popular characters to die. The death will be written into issue #36 of the five-year-old series called Life With Archie.
"This story is going to inspire a wide range of reactions, because we all feel so close to Archie," said Archie Comics publisher and co-CEO Jon Goldwater in a statement on Tuesday. "It’s the biggest story we’ve ever done, and we’re supremely proud of it.”
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Archie Comics CEO: "We’ve been building up to this moment." Photograph: /Archie Comics
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