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Parallel universe give fans a great chance to see familiar characters in alternate , and sometimes twisted , adaptation of their favourite stories . DC ’s Elseworlds and Marvel Comics ’ What If – ? serial publication offer two giant multiverses that show what could have come about ifSuperman had become Green Lantern , or ifSpider - Man had lived with early British colonists in 1602 .
When it comes to sheer variety , diversity , and just plainwackiness , however , few laughable companies can hold a candle to the parallel worlds offered byArchie Comics . Although most people do n’t consider the multiple variant of Archie and the crowd as inhabitant of infinite Earths , Archie Comics has a multiverse of its ownthat ranges from the uproarious to the horrific .
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Archie Comics premier in 1939 – one year after DC Comics introduced Superman ( and the same year Batman made his debut ) . From the beginning , the writers and creative person played tight and loose with persistence – declare oneself stories where cavemen versions of Archie and the gang had adventures with prehistorical dinosaurs , distant futures where Archie and Betty went on “ Jetsons - fashion date , ” and many other bizarre adventures set in alternate realities . No explanation was made – or needed – for these odd choices as reader simply enjoyed run across Archie having fun in different background .
Archie Comics – The Oldest Multiverse?
In recent years , however , Archie comic creators have set up an actual “ multiverse ” that places each of these diverging stories in its own persistence . TheLife with Archie : The Married Lifefollows two versions of everyman Archie Andrews – one who marries rich girlfriend Veronica Lodge and has to deal with the pressure of being a loaded man of affairs , and one who marries girl - next - door Betty Cooper and struggles to make it as a New York musician . The alternative realities do n’t finish here , however , as theLife With Archiecomic also contains a subplot where super scientist Dilton Doiley discover an entirerealmof parallel universe – from the macrocosm where the adventures of “ Little Archie ” took post , to the various era of teenage Archie ( 1930s Archie , 1940s Archie etc . ) , a prehistoric Archie universe , and even a kingdom whereArchie and the gang are all superheroes .
Dilton ends up travel through the different universe , team up with an “ anomaly ” ( the almost - forgotten support character “ Lil Ambrose ” ) and even stops an malign interlingual rendition of himself from destroying the entire multiverse . At one detail , the “ wall ” part the unlike existence begin dilapidate , and alternate Jugheads , Archies , and even Hot Dogs set off bumping into each other . It ’s all a fantastic , entertaining mess that rivals anything DC or Marvel ever did with their crossovers . In fact , considering that DC hold off until 1953 to usher in its parallel worlds inWonder Woman # 59(which demonstrate Wonder Woman meeting her dimensional twin from an alternating reality ) , this mean that Archie Comics ( accidentally ) began lay down its multiverse several years before Marvel or DC thought to create their own ! That being allege , Archie ’s escapade in fancied universes do n’t finish with the worlds of Archie …
Cross-Company Crossovers and Brave New Worlds
Just as DC and Marvel on a regular basis allows their heroes to run across ( and usually struggle ) in liberal crossing event , Archie Comics has held its own transversal - company crosswalk . In Archie ’s event , however , the crosswalk are inevitably stranger than anything DC or Marvel could ever dream up . Archie really became a target of Marvel Comics ’ Punisher in the unbelievable ( for its time)Archie meet the Punisher , which realize Marvel ’s gun - toting vigilante caput to Riverdale to track down a criminal who looked almost identical to Archie . The comic used multiple artists , include Stan Goldberg , John Buscema , and Tom Palmer , to take up both Archie and the Punisher in their traditional likenesses . Writer Batton Lash also prefer to makeallthe actors stay in - character – with Frank Castle persist dark and gritty in piercing contrast to the usual goofiness of Archie and the gang .
The unearthly crossover proved popular , which only encouraged Archie Comics to keep pushing the gasbag . Betty and Veronica fought killer flying sharks inArchie vs. Sharknadowhile all the Riverdale adolescent fell victim to the extraterrestrial hunting watch Predator inArchie vs. Predator . These stories were well bloodier thanArchie Meets the Punisher(with fiber regularly getting skewer , maimed , and eaten ) but were still draw in the “ cartoonish ” Archie style , which just made the whole experience more surreal .
While Archie Comics once had hard-and-fast guideline about picture its characters in violent and/or intimate situations , those rules finally went out the room access when the comic books begin produce more “ matured ” Archie comics for its newfangled Archie Horror imprint . Afterlife With Archiesaw Riverdale trying ( and mostly failing ) to survive a zombie Revelation of Saint John the Divine . Jughead : The Hungerhad Warren Earl Burger - loving Jughead transform into a ferocious wolfman being tracked by werewolf hunter Betty Cooper , whileChilling Adventures of Sabrinashowed the ( formerly ) happy teen witch now take in some decidedly darker exploits .
More of late , the CW idiot box seriesRiverdale(and its spin - off comic Christian Bible ) have show teenage versions of Archie , Jughead , Betty , and Veronica engage in some very risqué and virtuously refutable acts amid mysterious slaying and consecutive orca attacks in once - peaceful Riverdale . Nothing could be further from the wholesome , all - American adventures of the Archies from the old days – but considering the extreme the “ Archie - verse line ” has taken its parallel realities to , it fits perfectly in the multiverse .
The Jughead Wars
Although some of the current Archie comedian have sought to keep its parallel reality separate by focusing on the current storylines and attempting to keep its characters run aground in one reality , a few comical books have managed to celebrate the wacky legacy of Archie ’s multiverse . The 2019 comic book seriesJughead : Time Police(a reboot of the short - livedJughead : Time Policeof the 1990s ) , shows the “ mod ” Jughead of current Archie persistence meeting both preceding word-painting of his comic book ego as well as radically different alternate versions .
In a plot of ground weirdly evocative of Marvel ’s ten - Men time travel stories and DC Crisis events , present - day Jughead finds himself at betting odds with 1940s Jughead , who assembles a team of alternating reality Jugheads ( including wolfman Jughead and zombie Jughead from Archie Horror ) to take over the timestream . It ’s a uncanny chronicle that simultaneously observe and subverts the oddball stories inArchie Comics ’ 80 + year story – showing how Archie ’s multiverse reallyisthe place where anything does and can chance .
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