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A review by saidtheraina
Archie: The Married Life Book 2 by Paul Kupperberg
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.