Ten years in the past, Archie Comics introduced the unprecedented: a complete continuity reboot of its beloved world of characters that may set the stage for years of fascinating comics relaunches (in addition to their takeover of TV, between Riverdale, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and the still-in-the-works Afterlife with Archie Disney+ show). A decade later, it’s making an attempt once more, nevertheless it’s not truly Archie Comics itself doing the making an attempt this time.
Final evening, in an unprecedented transfer, Archie Comics introduced that it might be handing over the keys to Riverdale to Oni Press for an entire line-wide relaunch of a number of ongoing Archie titles. Set to start within the fall of subsequent yr, the partnership will kick off with three ongoing month-to-month titles: Archie, by W. Maxwell Prince, Fábio Moon, and Nick Cagnetti—a brand new spin on traditional Archie storytelling knowledgeable by Archie’s traditional previous and the 2015 reboot, in addition to youth tradition within the 2020s—Sabrina the Teenage Witch by Corinna Bechko and Kano—a equally fashionable relaunch of the beloved younger witch, though it’s unknown if it’ll lean as far into the horror vibes as Chilling Adventures—and Archie in Hell by Patrick Horvath and Tyler Criminal—a full-on Archie horror comedian sequence.
The month-to-month launches in late 2026 will probably be overseen by Oni Press editorial, with steering from Archie Comics, and herald two additional waves of releases: the primary a sequence of reprints of Archie titles, traditional and more moderen, in a spread of codecs, together with the standard digest kind; the second a brand new line of authentic graphic novels, set in their very own continuity separate from the 2026 relaunch books, that can launch in 2027.
Whereas all that sounds as equally invigorating because the relaunch of 2015 was—modernized takes, new continuity, the chance to push the sorts of style areas Archie can mess around in—it additionally raises a much more intriguing query: what’s Archie Comics going to be doing if it’s not publishing new Archie titles or reprints of its traditional work? Will Riverdale’s forged of characters now exist to be licensed out to different publishers for intervals at a time, or will one of the enduring comics universes ever come again to its creators for good?
Solely time will inform. Oni is predicted to share extra about its plans for the brand new period of Archie Comics by mid-2026
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