Best of Josie and the Pussycats: Greatest Hits

Pep Digital #123

by Dan DeCarlo (Illustrator), Jim Amash (Illustrator), Al Bigley (Illustrator)

By popular demand, Archie Comics is proud to present a collection of Josie and the Pussycats' greatest hits! Following in the tradition of Sabrina the Teenage Witch: 50 Magical Stories and The Best of Cheryl Blossom, this super-sized book features some of The Pussycats' most famous and iconic adventures. Follow their rise to stardom from garage band to international superstars, with over 300 pages of stories, pin-ups, and more!

Genres: Comics

307 pages, ebook

First published December 19, 2014

About the author

Daniel S. DeCarlo was an American cartoonist best known as the artist who developed the look of Archie Comics in the late 1950s and early 1960s, modernizing the characters to their contemporary appearance and establishing the publisher's house style. As well, he is the generally recognized creator of the characters Sabrina, The Teenage Witch, Josie and the Pussycats (with the lead character named for his wife), and Cheryl Blossom.

Reviews

[Keith Irwin · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is a collection of the best stories from Josie and the Pussycats. I had heard of Josie and the Pussycats, but never actually read any of it. I bought this as part of a collection hoping that it would be appropriate for my kid now or when she gets a little older. Having read it, I'm not sure if it will ever be. Some of the stories are fine, but others have a fair dose of fairly sexist ideas. I don't think that this is because they're pushing some agenda, but rather just because they were thrown together sloppily without a lot of thought about the plot and how it would impact their potential audience.

There were bits of this that I liked and that were funny, but mostly it was a big slog getting through all the highly formulaic plots. It's also weird that they have this comic world where they can't seem to decide if the Pussycats are a struggling band or a huge international sensation and they have one lesser character who can use magic while no one else is aware that this is possible. In the end, I feel like most of the stories were made up because they had a deadline approaching rather than because anyone actually had any stories they wanted to share with the world and it shows.

Obviously, I'm not the target audience, but I have to say that I wouldn't give this comic to my kid either, so I think that the rating is justified.

[J. · Rating 1 out of 5]

Can this lackluster, tedious, and certainly unfunny collection really be the `best of'? Surely it can't be!