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fwog19's review
5.0
I thought it was interesting to see where everyone is going and how both story lines show totally different aspects of some characters. While the characters are true to themselves, we get to see a side of them that shows what happens when you have to grow up.
saidtheraina's review
3.0
I was completely addicted to Archies as a kid. When we went on road trips, a treat would be to get one of the Archie digests at the stores where we stopped. I have a somewhat impressive collection at home.
Anyway, something inspired me to check out the first three volumes of the updated The Married Life series, which plays with multidimensional space travel and fates and destinies, and the choices we make as adults. Corporate espionage, romantic entanglement, big city vs. small town lifestyles, marital strife, small business theory, and politics all come into play.
Which makes me wonder how interesting this would be to a teen who didn't grow up reading about Archie and the gang. The plots are fairly complex (though the fact that you're alternating reading two different plotlines might have something to do with that), the art is familiar (to someone who read a lot of these), and the dialog is pretty terrible.
One major weird thing to me was the fact that a lot of the plot revolves around keeping major chains out of Riverdale, in order to save Jughead's place. But then Jughead ends up pursuing making his place a chain. I mean, this ultimately goes away as an issue, but it doesn't make sense that anyone would consider it a reasonable idea in the first place.
Honestly, I'm not sure why I powered through a thousand pages or so of this in a day, and I'm pretty sure I won't attempt anything past volume 3. But it was a fun trip down Memory Lane.
Anyway, something inspired me to check out the first three volumes of the updated The Married Life series, which plays with multidimensional space travel and fates and destinies, and the choices we make as adults. Corporate espionage, romantic entanglement, big city vs. small town lifestyles, marital strife, small business theory, and politics all come into play.
Which makes me wonder how interesting this would be to a teen who didn't grow up reading about Archie and the gang. The plots are fairly complex (though the fact that you're alternating reading two different plotlines might have something to do with that), the art is familiar (to someone who read a lot of these), and the dialog is pretty terrible.
One major weird thing to me was the fact that a lot of the plot revolves around keeping major chains out of Riverdale, in order to save Jughead's place. But then Jughead ends up pursuing making his place a chain. I mean, this ultimately goes away as an issue, but it doesn't make sense that anyone would consider it a reasonable idea in the first place.
Honestly, I'm not sure why I powered through a thousand pages or so of this in a day, and I'm pretty sure I won't attempt anything past volume 3. But it was a fun trip down Memory Lane.
tschmitty's review
3.0
So Archie is still married to both Betty and Veronica. He has a "School of Rock" scenerio going on in one, and he is jobless and alone in the other. Tough being married to two chicks. Reggie gets Archie's leftovers. Jughead eats the leftovers.
bashbashbashbash's review
4.0
I feel like in this second book, my expectations have settled. In the first book, it felt like anything could happen – like the Archie comics could have gone totally off the rails and plunged into some kind of nightmarish/hyperrealistic Dennis Cooper universe. But while the content of the comics has gotten serious – death comes to Riverdale, et cetera – we're still in the old Archie universe, where certain types of evil and harm are simply absent, and everyone is well-provided for at the end of the day.
So now that I know where I am, I just settle in to enjoy a little achingly cheerful wholesome good fun when the right mood strikes. Trying to read the volume through in one or two sittings is a bad idea – better to parcel it out. The issues (and digests) are never that long, after all.
I'm desperate to find out what that mad Dilton Doiley's up to. It has to be for good (right?), but how? Because right now Dilton's working for all the wrong people.
There are certain story lines in both universes that I don't care about, and others I wish would return (come back, Amos!). Moose-as-mayor seems silly. I still don't understand how Jughead has gotten so terrible (Jughead is basically dead to me at this point). I love Hiram Lodge, nefarious with a heart of gold. I love Ronnie but she seems to be getting a little flat (after initial gains in depth), so I hope there'll be more for her to do soon.
Note to the Archie publishers: if you get Dennis Cooper to write an "unauthorized" Archie spin-off, I will totally read it.
I will also read Book 3 of "Archie: The Married Life" when it's released.
So now that I know where I am, I just settle in to enjoy a little achingly cheerful wholesome good fun when the right mood strikes. Trying to read the volume through in one or two sittings is a bad idea – better to parcel it out. The issues (and digests) are never that long, after all.
I'm desperate to find out what that mad Dilton Doiley's up to. It has to be for good (right?), but how? Because right now Dilton's working for all the wrong people.
There are certain story lines in both universes that I don't care about, and others I wish would return (come back, Amos!). Moose-as-mayor seems silly. I still don't understand how Jughead has gotten so terrible (Jughead is basically dead to me at this point). I love Hiram Lodge, nefarious with a heart of gold. I love Ronnie but she seems to be getting a little flat (after initial gains in depth), so I hope there'll be more for her to do soon.
Note to the Archie publishers: if you get Dennis Cooper to write an "unauthorized" Archie spin-off, I will totally read it.
I will also read Book 3 of "Archie: The Married Life" when it's released.
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