FanFiltration said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Since when has the Archie comics dealt with shit like this, anyway? I was never a regular reader of the comics but my sister was, and from what I remember, most of the stories were about teens doing more-or-less regular teen stuff, the occassional foray into the surreal or supernatural notwithstanding.

It was a limited series taking place in the adult years of the characters. I think it is meant to appeal to one time readers that are now adult, and not aimed at the pre-teen set.

That seems like flawed logic on their part, because if I picked up an Archie comic after a long hiatus (were I a fan), I'd want to jump into the old Archie adventures I remembered as a kid, not some gritty, blood-spattered hardcore version. I wouldn't want to read about Jughead dying of a heroin overdose or something.

As a Calvin and Hobbes fan, I wouldn't want to read an adult version of Calvin and Hobbes where Calvin forgets about Hobbes, even as a one-off. I'd rather just pick it up where it was when I left it off.

Things for kids don't always need a loss-of-innocence moment or to "grow up", because people who enjoyed them who come back to them usually want to feel the nostalgia of how it was to read the stories when they were younger, as a guilty pleasure. Being an adult doesn't always mean wanting to deal with adult situations; especially when you want to escape with an old comic book "friend".

I'm just so tired of everything having to be heavy and gritty and whatnot. Ugh.