Read: Archie & Friends Forever (#18-2022)

Archie & Friends Forever 

Another fun jump through the nostalgia of childhood.  This collection contains new stories, written and illustrated in the style that I remember as a kid.  It's cute, it's quirky and it was just a super fun selection to read. 

(#18-2022)

I Read: The Best of Archie Christmas Comics

The Best of Archie Christmas Comics

Picked this up to get in the holiday mood - I always forget how amusing Archie comics can be and I'd never even considered that there would be enough Christmas-themed ones to make a collection.  But this feels like a good way to round out the end of my reading year. I'm over my self-imposed double-my-reading-challenge goal, and now I can just read whatever I read. 

#101-2021

I Read: The Best of Archie Comics Book 4 Deluxe Edition

The Best of Archie Comics Book 4 Deluxe Edition

Not much to review here - I pick these Best of collections up randomly because I had a huge collection of Archie comics as a kid.  Mostly Digests and Double Digests.  Somewhere along the way, I decided I didn't want them anymore and they've gone to the wind.  I guess I can take heart in the fact that someone else may have enjoyed them as much as I did.  I do still enjoy the fluffy comic-book stories of the Archie-verse whenever I get a chance to find them. 

#70-2021

I read: The Best of Archie Americana: Bronze Age 1980s - 1990s

The Best of Archie Americana: Bronze Age 1980s - 1990s

This one won't really be any kind of review. I read Archie comics when I was a kid, the way that I drink water now. It was constant.  Every time I was anywhere that had a new one I wanted to have it. I devoured them.

Somewhere along the way, despite my voracious need to hoard all things books, I chose to give my Archies away. I didn't own ANY of them anymore. So when I came across a few compilation books I got a little bit excited. I remember how much joy I found in those silly stories.

This one, in particular, includes my precise era of reading, and so I had to pick it up. The completist in me says that I need to also get the rest of the set, as this is actually the third book, but I really only read Archies in the 80s, so this is the book that means something.

I really did enjoy it. The jokes are awful, and repetitive, but it's perfectly mindless fun to read, and that is exactly what I needed right now. I'm tucking this away on my shelf for another moment when I just need some simple joy and nostalgia.

#11-2020