Over time America’s everlasting teenager Archie Andrews has met all people from Batman to the Punisher, by the use of KISS, the forged of Glee, the Predator, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Now he is about to embark on what seems like one in every of his funniest adventures but: hanging out with Jay and Silent Bob.
Sure, Archie Comics is teaming up with Clerks, Mallrats, and Chasing Amy director Kevin Smith for a brand new outsized one-shot crossover that may merge the worlds of Archie Comics with Kevin Smith’s View Askewniverse.
The brand new difficulty is written by Smith himself with artwork from Fernando Ruiz, Wealthy Koslowski, Matt Herms, and Jack Morelli. In line with the writer the brand new difficulty finds Archie taking up a summer time job on the Fast Cease comfort retailer solely to search out himself working alongside “none apart from Randal Graves, who debuted in Smith’s seminal 1994 movie Clerks. However when Jay and Silent Bob hit the scene, Archie’s life – and all of Riverdale – solely get wilder from there.”
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“I imagine it was Stoic thinker Epictetus who first mentioned, ‘Every little thing’s Archie.’ And he was proper,” Smith mentioned in an announcement. “Whether or not or not it’s Veronica in Clerks or the Mister Weatherbee dialog in Chasing Amy, the affect of Archie Andrews is blended into the brick and mortar of my pop cultural basis. So, there was no manner I used to be passing up this unimaginable alternative to collide the worlds of Riverdale and the Askewniverse, and introduce icons on the order of Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead, Moose, Reggie, and Josie to reprobates like Jay and Silent Bob.”
“Archie Meets Jay and Silent Bob is a crossover like we have by no means finished earlier than!” mentioned Archie Comics’ Jesse Goldwater in an announcement in regards to the new guide. “Kevin has brilliantly introduced two legendary, generation-defining worlds collectively to inform a narrative that is so humorous, completely wild, and in addition heartfelt and shifting.”
He went on so as to add, “Kevin Smith – a real genius – tells a narrative that feels each quintessentially View Askewniverse and classically Archie, honoring the unimaginable legacies of those beloved iconic characters. I can’t look ahead to readers to take a look at what I imagine goes to be the best crossover within the historical past of leisure!”
Archie Meets Jay and Silent Bob #1 is revealed by Archie Comics on July 9.
Archie Andrews has starred in a few of essentially the most unlikely comics crossovers of all time.
