Glee and Archie Comics To Team Up for Comic Crossover

By On 07/09/2012 · 3 Comments · In Glee

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McKinley High’s New Directions and the teens of Riverdale will be mixing it up soon! Archie Comics Co-chief executive, Jon Goldwater, announced this morning that the FOX television show Glee and Archie Comics are teaming up for a cross-over in the pages of the iconic comic book.

The 4 issue story line is set for late this year or early 2013 and is being written by Glee writer, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.  It features multiple characters from both the comic book and the Fox show.  Dan Parent is illustrating the story.

Aguirre-Scarsa penned two of  Glee’s more intense and emotional Season 3 episodes.  In “The First Time,”  two beloved couples lose their virginities to each other. The episode was ground breaking, in that it featured the coming of age of a teen gay couple.  ”On My Way” was chock-full of  drama, from the attempted suicide of a teen after he was outed as gay, to the near-fatal car accident of  one of the principal characters due to texting while driving.

It’ll be interesting to see how serious a path Aguirre-Scarsa takes the storyline.

Goldwater says he met Aguirre-Scarsa at Comic Con last year when he visited the Archie booth. Turns out hes a HUGE fan, even dressing as Archie for Halloween.   “He’s just a genius writer,” Goldwater says of the Glee scribe.

“’Glee’ is courageous in their story lines and how they represent their characters, how they represent the high school situation,” said Goldwater.  He noted that it was similar  to the world of Archie. For instance, the comic has recently brought in an openly-gay character, Kevin Keller.

For now, the plot of the four-issue story arc in “Archie Comics” is  super secret, but it does involve “parallel dimensions, dancing and some serious singing, too.”  Alrighty!

I have to admit, I’m probably going to check that out.

Via The Associated Press

 

 
  • Tess

    Oh how I loved Betty, hated on Veronica, laughed at the absurdity of Reggie, thought Archie was great, and always wanted JugHead to get a swift kick when he was being his stupid self.  Can’t believe something that I was into 50 years ago is still on the shelf today.  Biggest thing I miss about not taking a boring daily paper (on line is cheaper) is the comic section.  Boy do I miss Blondie and Cathy, Snoopy and the rest.

    But I must say that this cross-over just sounds too weird.  OH well!

  • http://twitter.com/Miztig Miz

    Where do you even buy a comic book anymore? I remember buying them for 12 1/2 cents when I was a kid at the corner store.

    THis is such a perfect fit. Oddly enough, I was thinking about the old Archie (and Josie and the Pussycats) cartoons on Saturday mornings the other day and how GLee sort of reminds me of those.

  • Anonymous

    Oh, man, I loved Archie comics when I was little back in the 70s! My cousin bought every single one and then passed them down to me and read every page and every word! I wanted to BE Betty. lol  My older sisters had the Archies album and I listened to it every day. Sugar Sugar, Get On The Line, Waldo P Emerson Jones. Not sure how I feel about this cross over because I am pretty jaded about Glee these days. Time will tell, I guess.