CBR: Mike Pellerito On Presiding Over Archie

[CBR News]

The President of Archie Comics discusses running the resurgent publisher as a comic geek, the choice to make Kevin Keller a military brat, the rebirth of "Sonic" and the exclusive announcement on the digital future of "Jinx."


Full article here.

[Disposable Parts]

Archie should really, if they haven't already, get the Red Circle rights back and start publishing their own hero books like The Sheild, Web, etc. Get Ian Flynn and Tom Defalco and they'd have a real great line of books. Certainly better than the DC ones.

[Blade X]

Archie should really, if they haven't already, get the Red Circle rights back and start publishing their own hero books like The Sheild, Web, etc. Get Ian Flynn and Tom Defalco and they'd have a real great line of books. Certainly better than the DC ones.

They have already announced that they (a) have gotten the rights back to the Red Circle characters and (b) that they will be publishing new series featuring those characters.

[Mart]

The optimism and can-do attitude in that article just made my day - can we say 'pep'? I'd like to be an Archie editor now, please.

[Vic Vega]

And what's cool is that I hit a book store this week, and I see that our friends at Marvel and DC are quietly doing more and more magazines. [Laughs] So it's nice. They're following us. Don't just sell to me, who's a geek, but sell to the kid on the street. It's nice to be leading the way, and like you said, "Life With Archie" is ground zero. It's the moment where we said, "We're going to change things.

Nice to see that SOMEBODY gets it.

[Jeremy A. Patterson]

They have already announced that they (a) have gotten the rights back to the Red Circle characters and (b) that they will be publishing new series featuring those characters.

This could be a great new era for them!

J.A.P.