R.I.P. Riverdale! Once in a generation, a story so potent, so powerful, so horrifying rises from the grave to redefine the comics medium’s greatest icons. Enter: The first-ever deluxe collection of Afterlife with Archie—collecting the totality of the groundbreaking, cemetery-shaking comics masterpiece from Harvey Award–winning writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Stephen King's The Stand: American Nightmare) and Eisner Award–winning artist Francesco Francavilla (Batman: The Black Mirror) that first introduced Riverdale’s teenage icons into a merciless world of ritual magic, undead terror, and survival at any cost!When a tragic death befalls Jughead Jones’s closest companion, his grief drives him to the doorstep of Sabrina the Teenage Witch . . . and into the thrall of a dark magic that will soon turn the whole of Riverdale into a ravenous pack of undead zombies fueled by a desire for human flesh. Hunted by the reanimated corpses of their friends and loved ones, can Archie, Betty, Veronica, and the rest of America's most beloved teenagers battle back a legion of the dead . . . and live long enough to stop the entire world from being consumed by the same unholy hunger? Pal vs. pal. Classmate vs. classmate. Living vs. dead. They swore to be friends until the end . . . but they never expected the end to look quite like this.This definitive hardcover collection of the riveting and relentless milestone that the New York Times calls “gruesome [and] masterly” re-presents the entirety of the Afterlife with Archie saga—including the never-before-collected issues #6–10—in an oversized format that also features a complete cover gallery and behind-the-scenes materials on the development of Archie Comics’ first all-out horror epic. Collecting Afterlife with Archie #1–10.
Contributors: (W) Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (A) Francesco Francavilla
ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and comic book writer. In television, he was a writer on the HBO series Big Love for three years, and is currently a writer/producer on Glee. For Marvel Comics, he has written Spider-Man, Nightcrawler, The Fantastic Four (winning a Harvey Award for MK 4), and many others, and also adapted Stephen King's epic novel The Stand into a best-selling 30-issue series. His accomplishments in the theater world include over fifteen plays produced around the world; on Broadway, he was part of the team brought on to revamp Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark. For film, he has written the new 2013 Carrie, based on the Brian DePalma classic, and a remake of the cult classic The Town That Dreaded Sundown, both for MGM. For Warner Brothers, he has written a new version of the horror musical Little Shop Of Horrors and the live-action adaptation of Archie.FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA is an Italian comic book artist known for his creator-owned series The Black Beetle and his retro and pulp-inspired comic covers. Other notable works include Afterlife With Archie, The Black Coat (which he co-created), Dynamite's Zorro series, and his run on Detective Comics with Scott Snyder and Jock.