“The Archies” is a fun, funny comic book miniseries focusing on the Riverdale gang forming the band everyone knows from the song “Sugar, Sugar,” and the 1960s cartoon from which it sprang. “Blackout” is a hard-hitting crime noir, the fourth novel about a troubled private detective who investigates a cold case that dredges up the squalid skeletons in his closet and the worst experiences of his horrific alcoholism.
They represent two poles on the spectrum of writing. And in between is Alex Segura, the co-president of Archie Comics, who wrote them both.
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