History ComicBook / AfterlifewithArchie

** "Holy ''spit'', his costume's awesome!" Even with the abolishing of UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode, they still can't curse in the Archie universe.

* SelfDeprecation: Archie Comics was one of the key instigators of the original UsefulNotes/ComicsCode, which they dropped mere months before the debut of this direct market title, which has almost ''everything'' the original Code forbade. It's not exactly subtle. Especially noted by how bloodier and gorier this series is, a first for Archie Comics. The sexual undertones adds to the proverbial middle finger to the now-defunct Comics Code Authority.

* TookALevelInBadass: Most of the characters who aren't infected:

* OverprotectiveDad: Just like in the [[ComicBook/ArchieComics main series]], Hiram Lodge clearly doesn't think too highly of Archie or his relationship with Veronica.

** Several of the characters' personality traits are played [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome a little more realistically]].

Written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and drawn by Francesco Francavilla, the result is a full-fledged horror series featuring the sprawling cast of the ''Archie'' series. DarkerAndEdgier is the flavor of the day, with bold, impressionistic coloring and a helping of NothingIsScarier (it is still ''Archie'', after all; they've got to get by with the equivalent of a PG-13 rating). It's ComicBook/ArchieComics' first foray into the Direct Market (they typically target supermarkets and newsstands), and the initial printing of Issue #1 sold out. Twice.

Written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and drawn by Francesco Francavilla, the result is a full-fledged horror series featuring the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters sprawling cast]] of the ''Archie'' series. DarkerAndEdgier is the flavor of the day, with bold, impressionistic coloring and a helping of NothingIsScarier (it is still ''Archie'', after all; they've got to get by with the equivalent of a PG-13 rating). It's ComicBook/ArchieComics' first foray into the Direct Market (they typically target supermarkets and newsstands), and the initial printing of Issue #1 sold out. Twice.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Business as usual for Archie, though most of the adult cast (save [[spoiler:Mrs. Andrews]], Mr. Lodge, and Smithers) are infected off-panel.

* SpiritAdvisor: In issue #8, Archie finds himself talking with an apparition of [[spoiler:Jughead Jones, as he was before he became a zombie.]] [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Archie wonders if he's losing his mind,]] but we later see [[spoiler:Jughead's ghost]] conversing with [[spoiler:the spirit of Jellybean]], with Archie not seeming to notice them. This suggests that the earlier conversation was RealAfterAll.

* TheSociopath: Zigzagged in-universe with Reggie, who is qualified for every standard of the test except for his feeling for Midge.

* TookALevelInBadass: Most of the characters who aren't infected:

* TookALevelInJerkass: A lot of the characters are a lot more mean spirited than in the original comics

* VampireBitesSuck: Being bitten by a vampire is ''not'' pleasant. [[spoiler:Josie]] likens to it a rather bestial violation.

* FanService: The [[http://afterlifewitharchie.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/alwarchie5var.jpg alternate covers]] of Issue #5, [[http://www.firstcomicsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/alwa6v.jpg #6]], [[https://31.media.tumblr.com/b3c4277f662ffbf62ca0233fb4ac805f/tumblr_n17plib1mp1tp50neo2_500.jpg and #7]].

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:Cthulhu]].
* GoshDangItToHeck:

* TheUnreveal: Cheryl tells the other female characters (and ''only'' the female characters) [[spoiler:the truth about her and Jason]]. Archie (and, by extension, the reader) doesn't know what she actually said, only that it was so bad that it came close to driving Betty over the DespairEventHorizon. Although she does mention that she doesn't think she can handle the jokes the male characters, especially Reggie, would thrown at her.

** The worst of it might just be Jason Blossom, [[spoiler:with it being heavily implied and all but outright stated that he sexually abuses his twin sister Cheryl, and murdered her pet dog just because she liked it better than him]]
* TomeOfEldritchLore: Sabrina sparks the zombie plague using the Necronomicon.

Written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and drawn by Francesco Francavilla, the result is a full-fledged horror series featuring the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters sprawling cast]] of the ''Archie'' series. DarkerAndEdgier is the flavor of the day, with bold, impressionistic coloring and a helping of NothingIsScarier (it is still ''Archie'', after all; they've got to get by with the equivalent of a PG-13 rating). It's ComicBook/ArchieComics' first foray into the Direct Market (they typically target supermarkets and newsstands), and the initial printing of Issue #1 sold out. [[UpToEleven Twice.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Hiram Lodge and Archie Andrews. Their character arcs are paralleled as both [[spoiler:fail to save people under their care]] and hit HeroicBSOD moments at nearly the same time. Much like in the traditional comics, the elder Lodge seems to dislike Archie precisely because they are so much ''alike.''

** Several of the characters' personality traits are played [[RealityEnsues a little more realistically]].

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[[caption-width-right:295:This is how the end of the world begins...]]

Written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and drawn by Francesco Francavilla, the result is a full-fledged horror series featuring the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters sprawling cast]] of the ''Archie'' series. DarkerAndEdgier is the flavor of the day, with bold, impressionistic coloring and a helping of NothingIsScarier (it is still Archie, after all; they've got to get by with the equivalent of a PG-13 rating). It's ComicBook/ArchieComics' first foray into the Direct Market (they typically target supermarkets and newsstands), and the initial printing of Issue #1 sold out. [[UpToEleven Twice.]]

** Several of the character's personality traits are played [[RealityEnsues a little more realistically]].