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Gender-swapping has always played an interesting role in comic books, primarily in terms of derivative female characters with significantly smaller costumes, but also as a way to get perspective on how differently comics (and our culture) treats the different sexes and/or create fan art that slightly disturbs people...

On the off chance that you thought the awesome craziness of the Archie universe was limited to the character's grown-up version, think again: This week also saw the release of "Archie & Friends" #146, kicking off the four-part "Twilite" saga in which Riverdale High gains two new students, Ivan and Jared, who immediately become new competitors for Betty and Veronica's affec

After thoroughly enjoying Tom Root's handiwork on this week's "Jughead" #200, I happened upon a pretty telling back page ad for iVerse's line of Archie's digital-exclusive releases. Behold: "Betty & Veronica Summer Spectacular Presents: Betty the Vampire Slayer v.s. ...

As Archie Andrews pushes 70 years of publication, many younger fans of Riverdale's resident horn-dog with a heart of gold may not have had the chance to read up on his secret past. Thanks to a partnership with IDW Publishing, Archie Comics will soon release reprints of the character's earlier tales in collected editions, including the first works by creators John Goldwater and Bob Montana... Read

ComicsAlliance welcomes guest blogger Brendan McGuirk to discuss the upcoming Archie wedding. Archie Comics recently announced that forever-young bachelor Archie Andrews will be taking the vows of marriage later this summer in "Archie #600," and the comic-book gossip gutters were instantly aflutter -- who would the bride be, Betty or Veronica? After countless years of wooing and hijinx,

Archie Comics just put 15 songs up on their website by The Archies, a fictional bubblegum pop band that supposedly featured Archie on guitar, Jughead on drums, Betty on the tambourine, etc. The Archies, despite not being real, actually had a #1 hit in 1969 called You might remember it from that Simpsons episode where Homer ends up adrift at sea and sings it while dancing with imaginary candy in h

ARCHIE #580"A Not-So-Cool Yule": Archie is having a stress-free holiday season, untilboth Betty and Veronica give him "matching sweaters" that they expect him towear– the only problem is, the designs the girls chose don't match! SCRIPT: George GladirART: Stan Goldberg "Cold Comfort": Veronica thinks Archie is being chivalrous about her onion breath, when he merely has