It has been a huge year for comics—so huge, we’re trying something a little different for io9's year in review. While next week we’ll be bringing you our favorite series of 2016, today is all about the individual moments: the panels and scenes that became our favorite moments to read in comics all year.
Jughead likes to eat. This we know. Getting physical with members of the opposite or same sex? Not so much.
Archie Andrews isn’t the cool one anymore. Jughead Jones is.
Getting an artist best known for cheesecake to draw Betty & Veronica? Another ballsy move. Archie Comics is turning to crowdfunding to help expand their upcoming reboot, pitching fans to lend support for three new series.
This week, there’s a comic where a Predator from the movies of the same name stalks Archie, Betty, Veronica and Jughead. A newly dead body drips blood all over America’s favorite lily-white teenagers as the alien hunter observes them from a tree branch above.
The iconic comic book hero Archie Andrews dies a heroic death in the final issue of Life with Archie #36 while saving the life of one of his friends. His death is really tragic and meaningful, but Conan O'Brien's here with some not-so-heroic alternatives.
The people at Archie Comics just don't give a damn. They unleashed a zombie apocalypse in Riverdale last year, in which two female supporting characters sort of came out of the closet. Now the publisher is killing off their main character. RIP Archie.
Sharing milkshakes. Fun little love triangles. Bumbling high-school principals. This week, that’s all done. Zombies are going eat the brains out of Reggie, Mr. Weatherbee and those polar-opposite Archie-lovers Betty and Veronica. Sound cheesy? It’s not. It’s actually damn creepy.
Video games’ fastest hedgehog beats up a lot of other animals in his comic-book adventures. Humans, too. If you want to see the guys who’ve given Sonic his toughest battles in illustrated form, they’re all in one handsomely presented place now.
Archie Comics' crossover between Sega and Capcom's best known characters is called Worlds Collide. And it looks like the biggest collision will be happening in next week's Sonic #250, when a crap-ton of robot masters show up to try and stop the blue heroes from saving the day.
Knuckles Man.? Rose Woman? Shadow Man? Only two horrible minds could've come up with evil robot antagonists like these. Dr. Wily and Dr. Eggman's malevolent subversion of Sonic the hedgehog's friends gets revealed in the latest issue of the Worlds Collide crossover, an Archie Comics event pairing up Sonic and Mega for…
Worlds Collide—the long-brewing mash-up between Sega’s Hedgehog and Capcom’s Blue Bomber—finally kicks off this week. The two video game icons and their assorted allies, sidekicks and enemies will be meeting up and throwing down for the next few months. But, be honest: what you really want to know is if the blue…
The long-teased crossover between Capcom and Sega's iconic characters inches ever closer and each bit of preview art makes fans teases fans with the fact that this mash-up doesn't exist in playable form.
Let's get real: Sonic doesn't stand a chance. Sure, he's fast. You see that energy build-up in the Mega Buster pictured below? That's a recipe for roasted hedgehog, right there.
But, wait, you say! Couldn't Sonic disassemble Mega Man at super-speed before Capcom's icon could even get a blast off? The answers to…
Sure, Sega's blue mascot has had a long run of comics of his own from Archie Comics. But his frenemy Knuckles saw action on his own, too, with exploits that unfurled an oddly touching interpretation of the animal-verse. A new collection of Knuckles comics hits stores next week. Here's a first look at the continued…
When the storyline that has Sonic the Hedgehog and Mega Man meet shows up in comics stores next year, Archie Comics is pulling off a feat that Sega and Capcom probably wouldn't be able to pull off. The man responsible for the ensuing hijinx is writer Ian Flynn, who already pens the adventures of both iconic…
Can Mega Man jump higher than Sonic? Is Sega's blue hedgehogedgehog faster than Flash Man? We'll all find out next year, thanks to Archie Comics.
New comics come out on Wednesdays. So why is my weekly list of new-comics recommendations running on a Thursday? I blame the avalanche of gaming news, screenshots and trailers tumbling out of Gamescom. I briefly found space, however, to recommend some comics.
There are new comics out every week, but this week doesn't just have a strong batch of new books that are hitting store shelves. It's also got an unusually strong amount of legitimate digital downloadable comics, including a re-issuing of a few issues of the Detroit-era Justice League of America. You know, the worst…
Good luck squeezing into your local comics shop this week. Plenty of strangers will probably be dropping in to pick up the new Spider-Man comic with the new Spider-Man in it. But squeeze on in, because there are some cool new comics out this week. And there are some good old ones available for legitimate digital…
