- Harsher in Hindsight: Punisher lets the villain go specifically because he doesn't want to ruin the innocence of Riverdale. Less than two decades later, Archie Comics would finally begin taking the Archie universe in bolder and especially darker and more twisted directions, from gruesome zombie apocalypses to a fatal encounter with another science fiction icon. And that's before the debut of Riverdale.
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