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I've never read Archie, so most of the references are lost on me. As far as I can tell the characters are fairly surface anyway (50's archetypes), so I don't feel like it's a huge loss. That said, Afterlife with Archie is an entertaining albeit predictable read. The writing definitely plays off the campy B nature of zombie culture and was pretty funny/ridiculous sometimes. What do you mean infected? Is it rabies? Bobby what's wrong with you? Ouch!!! CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP.

The story follows a really predictable story arc. Life is peachy, shit goes wrong, characters try to fix the shit by meddling with forces they don't understand, shit gets worse and eventually climaxes, people band together and some people die in interesting ways, but not before learning about human nature and themselves in the process. That's about it.

The art is really emotive and contrastingly dark/colorful. The chapter covers are super cool and throw back to old school horror movies. I can really appreciate this as a horror/zombie movie buff. I think if you're an Archie fan or at least somewhat familiar with Archie you could probably get/appreciate this to another level. But it's sort of just a zombie book for me not getting the references.