Archie Heads Six Feet Under in Comic ‘Archie in Hell’ this November!

It seems Archie is everywhere these days…and soon, he’ll go to Hell in the “most malevolent and merciless Archie comic tale ever told”, Archie in Hell, from Oni Press and Archie Comic Publications.

“They say that every small town has a secret. Well, in the case of Riverdale, it’s one heck of a humdinger: An ancient order of cultists has infiltrated its townspeople, bent on using human sacrifice to usher a demon lord into our mortal plane. And they’ve finally identified the final target they need to bring a century’s worth of planning to fruition: hometown football champion and all-around good guy Archie Andrews. But this secret cabal never dreamed that actual witches walk Riverdale’s streets . . . and when cult and coven clash in the final stages of Archie’s secret ritual sacrifice, the consequences will be cosmic . . . and young Archie Andrews will find himself damned to something far worse than Hell’s inner circle. 

The latest Archie adventure hails from writer Patrick Horvath (Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees) and artist Tyler Crook (Harrow County).

Said Horvath, “Getting the opportunity to work on this book has been a series of pleasant surprises. When Hunter Gorinson and Sierra Hahn from Oni mentioned the possibility to me, it happened to line up pretty perfectly with my schedule. I just found myself thinking that if I was ever going to do something like this, now was the time. I had also been looking for an opportunity to write a project for another artist. Tyler has been an art hero of mine for a while now and getting to work with him on this has been supremely inspiring.”

Added Crook, “I have always wanted to work on an Archie comic, and I was super stoked when Patrick and Sierra presented me with a story that combined Archie with horror and history. As an artist who loves period pieces, it gives me something meaty to bite into and provides us a wonderful, interesting and terrifying way to explore these classic characters.”

The news arrives on the heels of the announcement that we’ll be getting a TV series adaptation of Afterlife with Archie.