The team behind Riverdale will turn Archie's world into a zombie-fueled nightmare with a Disney Plus adaptation of the Afterlife With Archie horror comic

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Archie and pals are going full Walking Dead with a new show based on the zombie horror comic Afterlife With Archie

Archie Andrews and Jughead Jones surrounded by zombies
(Image credit: Archie Comics)

Archie Andrews and his pals are coming back to TV in a new show from the same team behind Riverdale, CW's often bizarre, incredibly melodramatic adaptation of Archie's world. This time though, they're fully embracing a totally different side of Archie as he and the Riverdale gang are beset by zombies in an adaptation of the horror comic Afterlife With Archie (via Deadline).

Created by writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and artist Franceso Francavilla, Afterlife With Archie could be described as something like The Walking Dead if it were set in Riverdale. And though one might think that the story would pull its punches thanks to its roots in the all-ages Archie Comics line, it's a bloody, terrifying horror story that doesn't shy away from its zombie-ness.

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George Marston
George Marston

I've been Newsarama's resident Marvel Comics expert and general comic book historian since 2011. I've also been the on-site reporter at most major comic conventions such as Comic-Con International: San Diego, New York Comic Con, and C2E2. Outside of comic journalism, I am the artist of many weird pictures, and the guitarist of many heavy riffs. (They/Them)

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