Greetings comic lovers welcome back I’m Sasha and this is casually comics the channel
where we look at whatever comics we want when we want and explore comic book history and
basically do whatever and we keep it casual.
There’s been lots of fun stuff happening in modern archie comics lots of supernatural
fare.
Some people only know archie from digest you could buy in line at the grocery store and
some only from Riverdale which has it;s fare share of mad moments.
Shout out to those who remember archie’s weird mysteries.
Here;s the thing Archie has had a long and proud history of bizaaree crossovers and genre
shifts so I for one am thrilled to take on any type of Archie fare which is why today
we’re going to take a look at Vampironic and yes it’s exactly what you think it is.
If you’re a fan of the weird and wacky hit that like button.
So Vampironica started in 2018 and is ongoing at the time of this recording it is part of
the Archie Horror comic imprint which was founded in 2015 after the success of the series
Afterlife with Archie and the chillng adventures of sabrina.
In fact at the company they started referring to these books as archie horror so thought
why not make it official also this way there was no worry of any caonical confusion not
that there really had been any and also they could up the rating to teen + . That’s right
get your parents this outing is going to be teen + thankfully I am an adult.
So this idea came from Betty and Veronica #261 in 2012 where Veronica dresses up as
Vampirella for halloween and Betty calls her vampironica.
So today’s outing is brought to us by Megan and Greg smallwood a brother and sister duo
with both writing and greg doing the art.
The Riverdale we’ll be visiting is one of the comic variety so the relationships and
characterisations are coming from that world not the CW just be forewarned.
On an opening note I love this cover so much cheerleader vamp veronica over some dead football
players the first blood just everything screams pick this up.
The comic opens with a party at the pembrook escape with Cheryl offering up the chance
of body shots when their over the top teenage revelry is interrupted by a vampire!!
But it’s all good cause Veronica shows up with some byffesque talk of hey ugly and her
claws and a stake.
No one crashes parties in Riverdale but her.
There’s a great panel of her tackling one vamp into the pool an emerging amidst a spreading
ring of blood to reveal that she too is vampire, and of course to say hey cheryl great party.
We then cut back to 3 days ago cause they know you want to know you’re not putting
it down now.
Archie comes over and Veronica goes full flirt insisting they have a date but he’s really
not interested he’s already going out...with Betty.
Why did I pause as if it’s a shock . So Veronica grabs poor hapless reggie and claims
whatevees they toes already had a date anyway which Reggie goes along with.
Sidenote it’s nice to see Reggie not depicted as the villain for now it’s
often not the case, he’s oft times just a guy who genuinely thinks these girls are
interested in him, but he’s just a pawn.
So Reggie gets excited and by that I mean just tries to start planning a fun evening
for them but Veronica is all nope my way or the highway pick e up at 6 man 6 truly they
are teens I don’t remember the last time I was able to plan anything for 6.
So Veronica is pining hard kissing a pic she has of archie her and betty with her fingertips
the whole nine yards she’s probably listening to...I was going to give a sad song but I
don’t want to date myself.
Insert popular sad breakup pining song here.
However here’s where things go wrong, and slice of life gives way to horror...again
when she goes to leave she hears a thud when she goes to investigate it’s her parents
on the ground bleeding giant pinpricks in their neck, and then she’s attacked and
bitten herself.
But veronica is no shrinking violet she grabs the most stakelike thing in her vicinity and
jabs it back and what I’m assuming now is Dracula I haven’t read on yet but if he;s
an actual original vampire I will be stone cold stunned and pleased.
Sidenote I love this art for some reason in this sequence it crystalized for me that i
just really love how it blends their own style with the classic appearance of the characters.
Veronica flees in her push to start car and goes to run her still in pursuit assailant
over however in her haste she plows straight into Reggie’s car on the way in and is thrown
clear.
As she struggles up to see if Reggie is alright she experiences her first attack of blood
lust and nearly feeds from him.
She got the good sire blood clearly it works fast.
She then notices that her are healing and ponders just what is happening to her even
though it should be obvious.
I’m not being judgemental but there’s a time for skepticism and a time to realize
you’re a vampire although maybe veronica is not all that up on her vampire lore.
Issue oe ends with Veronica’s assailant coming upon Reggie in his car and offering
him some help dun dun dunn.
What can I say I’m a sucker for vampires give me a vampire au anyday it’ll never
be played out to me.
I think this comic sets up an intriguing premise kept fresh by the characters involved if not
by the particulars of the plot.
I’m down for Veronica to go Blade some people say Buffy but she’s not a vampire while
blade is well half but still more parallels.
A combo of the two.
If you like canonical or rather official supernatural aus this one is for you.
Ok hit me with it what comes to your mind when you think pining song I was about to
go full stacie orico stuck on you.
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I’m Sasha this was casually comics and we’ll see you again soon.