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A review by saidtheraina
Archie: The Married Life Book 3 by Tim Kennedy, Paul Kupperberg, Pat Kennedy, Fernando Ruiz
3.0
Just like the previous two volumes, getting more Lost-ie, and honestly, the gay wedding seemed pretty tacked on and tokenish. I mean, I appreciate the thought, but it didn't play into the plot at all, except as a setting for other stuff. I also don't appreciate that all of the gay and lesbian (and yes, those are the only other gender and sexuality spectrum choices portrayed) characters are new - and none of the heternormative sexuality of the core characters are questioned.
I also get a little annoyed at all of the "bests" flouted all over the cover. Archie has some things going for it - a lot of nostalgia for me personally, for one - but it's definitely not the BEST thing in comics. Archie himself is a vacuum of a character with no personality I can see (and as I said in my review of the other two volumes, I have read a LOT of books about him). And the drawing is not always consistent. I put this down for a night, and when I got back to it, I didn't recognize Reggie - I had to remember context to figure out that's who I was looking at.
So yeah, eh, but not enough to lose a star.
I also get a little annoyed at all of the "bests" flouted all over the cover. Archie has some things going for it - a lot of nostalgia for me personally, for one - but it's definitely not the BEST thing in comics. Archie himself is a vacuum of a character with no personality I can see (and as I said in my review of the other two volumes, I have read a LOT of books about him). And the drawing is not always consistent. I put this down for a night, and when I got back to it, I didn't recognize Reggie - I had to remember context to figure out that's who I was looking at.
So yeah, eh, but not enough to lose a star.