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Archie (2015) (Collected Editions) #8
Archie y Sabrina 2
Riverdale's been abuzz with rumors of the town's hottest couple: Archie and... who? While everyone tries to discover the identity of Archie's new girlfriend, learn how Archie and Sabrina Spellman's whirlwind romance came to be — and what that means for everyone else in Archie's life. Meanwhile, Jughead and Reggie are busy solving a mystery of their own — one that could have life-altering consequences! Writer Nick Spencer (Spider-Man) teams up with co-writer Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer, Lumberjanes) and artists Sandy Jarrell (DC's Bombshells) and Jenn St-Onge (Bingo Love, Jem and the Holograms).
This second arc of a new era of Archie is filled with new mysteries, new relationships, and much more! Collects issues #705-#709 of the ongoing Archie series.
As an extra-special added bonus: Archie and Sabrina also includes a sneak peek of the Archie and Katy Keene series by co-writers Mariko Tamaki and Kevin Panetta with art by Laura Braga.
This second arc of a new era of Archie is filled with new mysteries, new relationships, and much more! Collects issues #705-#709 of the ongoing Archie series.
As an extra-special added bonus: Archie and Sabrina also includes a sneak peek of the Archie and Katy Keene series by co-writers Mariko Tamaki and Kevin Panetta with art by Laura Braga.
140 pages, Hardcover
First published April 14, 2020
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April 19, 2022
Spencer sets a glacial pace with his writing. Barely anything happens. Editorially this was frustrating as well. The last volume ended on a cliffhanger that was tied up in the first issue. I don't know about you but I like complete stories in my trade collections. Sandy Jarrell and Jenn St-Onge provided some stellar art at least.
January 22, 2021
Good story. It's good to see Archie dating other people but I still think that he should be with Betty.
April 19, 2022
Ya'll this was such a snooze fest. I could care less about what happens in this volume. There was supposed to be this huge thing at the end of the first volume that is solved in the first issue of this trade. The rest of the story was a drag and didn't really draw me in the way I felt with Mark Waid's run of Archie. Honestly, I'm kind of glad it's on hiatus especially with Spencer writing this specific run. It doesn't feel like he was able to capture the same complexity. Even the mystery of Reggie's father wasn't enough to make me enjoy this one.
May 5, 2022
One of the best volumes of the entire rebooted series- including Waid’s run. Engaging stories, amazing art (except for one issue that made weird choices I didn’t care for) and Reggie is smokin hot. The addition of Sabrina to this series is Everything,
April 3, 2020
Archie's got a new girlfriend - Sabrina Spellman! Uncover the mystery of Riverdale's latest power couple, as the ongoing mystery of Ricky Mantle's disappearance evolves into something even more sinister!
Archie shifts into an ongoing series of mini-series (just go with it) in this five part arc that slow-burns the Archie & Sabrina relationship while Riverdale gets darker and darker around the characters. There's a few tantalising subplots like Betty and Veronica's rivalry, and Jughead's mystery-solving, which gives this a closer feel to the TV series without quite falling into the Riverdale melodrama hole.
It's always difficult to bring a character like Sabrina into contact with a universe that is predominantly not about magical characters, but Spencer (and co-writer Mariko Tamaki) manage fairly well. Sabrina's witchiness isn't danced around, but it's secondary to her role in the plot, and they manage not to just reduce her to Archie's new girlfriend as well. She's a functional part of the plot, rather than a piece of paper with 'magic' or 'girlfriend' stuck to it.
On art are Sandy Jarrell (continuing on from the previous arc) and Jenn St-Onge, who tag-team fairly well. Jarrell's art is a bit sketchier while St-Onge is much rounder, but they share the storylines (St-Onge does an entire flashback issue, if I remember right).
Another good entry in the revitalized Archie title, managing to expand Archie's world in unexpected directions and keep up its compelling character work at the same time.
Archie shifts into an ongoing series of mini-series (just go with it) in this five part arc that slow-burns the Archie & Sabrina relationship while Riverdale gets darker and darker around the characters. There's a few tantalising subplots like Betty and Veronica's rivalry, and Jughead's mystery-solving, which gives this a closer feel to the TV series without quite falling into the Riverdale melodrama hole.
It's always difficult to bring a character like Sabrina into contact with a universe that is predominantly not about magical characters, but Spencer (and co-writer Mariko Tamaki) manage fairly well. Sabrina's witchiness isn't danced around, but it's secondary to her role in the plot, and they manage not to just reduce her to Archie's new girlfriend as well. She's a functional part of the plot, rather than a piece of paper with 'magic' or 'girlfriend' stuck to it.
On art are Sandy Jarrell (continuing on from the previous arc) and Jenn St-Onge, who tag-team fairly well. Jarrell's art is a bit sketchier while St-Onge is much rounder, but they share the storylines (St-Onge does an entire flashback issue, if I remember right).
Another good entry in the revitalized Archie title, managing to expand Archie's world in unexpected directions and keep up its compelling character work at the same time.
June 16, 2022
love myself some archie and sabrina
June 7, 2020
Mark Waid and Fiona Staples relaunch of Archie a few years ago was a master stroke. They took the long existent property, breathed fresh life into the characters, and freed up and modernized the art style, creating a perfect template for newer writers to take over. I expected Archie Comics would either give the books to some more big names and have them continue on, or else gather some hungrier, young writers who might put more bumps in the road, but take some interesting detours on the reinvention.
Instead, Nick Spencer, who's known for his Marvel titles, but isn't precisely beloved, took over and, along with Mariko Tamaki, whose known for her incredible indie work and some inspired runs for DC and Marvel, try some complicated storytelling methods in their Archie run, and end up falling flat.
The premise of this volume of Archie, that Archie and Sabrina meet, and date in secret, much to the chagrin of Betty and Veronica, is super interesting. And while I didn't care at all for the Is Reggie's Dad Dead? Let's Ask Inspector Jughead angle, it wasn't terrible. But instead of letting the story unfold, we are first presented with the fourth part of the story, then the first, then the third, then the second, and finally the ... fifth?
I grew up in the 90s. I loved Pulp Fiction, Momento, and Go, and all those indie flicks that are told out of order to mess with storytellng conventions. And if you told me Mariko Tamaki was going to present a book that way, I'd be intrigued. But an Archie book? Not so much. And Nick Spencer is a perfectly adept Paint By Numbers Writer. Whenever he takes big risks, such as his Captain America run, it ends up being a huge whiff. This book was an inoffensive whiff.
The first issue mooted the entire rest of the run. And the injection of the Sabrina magic world into the Riverdale that Waid and Staples and Fish and co. all set up just doesn't work.
I got to the end of the book unsure who it was for. Kids? People who grew up with Archie who are now in their thirties and forties and saw the aforementioned films? People who like the CW Riverdale and Netflix Sabrina TV series?
I don't have a definitive answer.
The art is great. Sandy Jarrell and Jenn St. Onge truly live up to the legacy set down by Staples and Fish. I just wish the story had better supported their hard work.
Instead, Nick Spencer, who's known for his Marvel titles, but isn't precisely beloved, took over and, along with Mariko Tamaki, whose known for her incredible indie work and some inspired runs for DC and Marvel, try some complicated storytelling methods in their Archie run, and end up falling flat.
The premise of this volume of Archie, that Archie and Sabrina meet, and date in secret, much to the chagrin of Betty and Veronica, is super interesting. And while I didn't care at all for the Is Reggie's Dad Dead? Let's Ask Inspector Jughead angle, it wasn't terrible. But instead of letting the story unfold, we are first presented with the fourth part of the story, then the first, then the third, then the second, and finally the ... fifth?
I grew up in the 90s. I loved Pulp Fiction, Momento, and Go, and all those indie flicks that are told out of order to mess with storytellng conventions. And if you told me Mariko Tamaki was going to present a book that way, I'd be intrigued. But an Archie book? Not so much. And Nick Spencer is a perfectly adept Paint By Numbers Writer. Whenever he takes big risks, such as his Captain America run, it ends up being a huge whiff. This book was an inoffensive whiff.
The first issue mooted the entire rest of the run. And the injection of the Sabrina magic world into the Riverdale that Waid and Staples and Fish and co. all set up just doesn't work.
I got to the end of the book unsure who it was for. Kids? People who grew up with Archie who are now in their thirties and forties and saw the aforementioned films? People who like the CW Riverdale and Netflix Sabrina TV series?
I don't have a definitive answer.
The art is great. Sandy Jarrell and Jenn St. Onge truly live up to the legacy set down by Staples and Fish. I just wish the story had better supported their hard work.
September 3, 2021
Aunque las tramas son bastante normalitas, lo cierto es que me resultan unos personajes bastante entrañables que te piden seguir leyendo sus aventuras y desventuras.
November 30, 2021
The mystery deepens in Riverdale as we learn more about why Sabrina the Witch is in town. Overall, this continues the darker tone we saw in the first volume of Spencer's run, but it's a bit hard to get into this as easily as we might get into other versions of Archie. Somehow, the components never seem to come together perfectly here. The whole is less than the sum of its parts, even if the parts are all quite good on their own.
February 11, 2022
The story is a bit all over the place here because there's so much going on and multiple unresolved storylines. Gorgeous artwork and colours as always though!
On a whole, Nick Spencer's trilogy in this series is a fun read and worth checking out just for the aesthetics alone.
My review of Archie
My review of Archie & Katy Keene
On a whole, Nick Spencer's trilogy in this series is a fun read and worth checking out just for the aesthetics alone.
My review of Archie
My review of Archie & Katy Keene
March 18, 2021
I liked this more than the first volume!
October 11, 2020
Spencer continues to disappoint in his take on New Riverdale. I mean, this isn't bad, it's just not of any note either.
Take the Betty and Veronica plot. They agree to set aside their old differences ... and then they inevitably come into conflict over a new problem. That's a plot that could have been written any time in the last seventy years at Archie.
The Archie and Sabrina romance is a pure stunt. Oh, it's sweet at times, especially when Spencer plies us with the tune of Summer Lovin', but it's obviously not going to last, and feels exactly that pointless. It looks like they have the big break-up fight in the last issue, when Archie reveals he's a small-town bigot (which really isn't a look that the Archie comics want to lean into), but then in the preview we get of the next issue it looks like everything is fine. What!??
And that next issue looks pretty terrible, as Spencer makes his comic dance to the tune of the newest stunt casting in the TV show. Sigh.
The only thing of interest? Jughead and Reggie's investigation. Except over the course of these several issues, it advances a few inches.
And thanks, Archie, for padding out this collection with some old comic that no one wants to read. Always a pleasure.
Take the Betty and Veronica plot. They agree to set aside their old differences ... and then they inevitably come into conflict over a new problem. That's a plot that could have been written any time in the last seventy years at Archie.
The Archie and Sabrina romance is a pure stunt. Oh, it's sweet at times, especially when Spencer plies us with the tune of Summer Lovin', but it's obviously not going to last, and feels exactly that pointless. It looks like they have the big break-up fight in the last issue, when Archie reveals he's a small-town bigot (which really isn't a look that the Archie comics want to lean into), but then in the preview we get of the next issue it looks like everything is fine. What!??
And that next issue looks pretty terrible, as Spencer makes his comic dance to the tune of the newest stunt casting in the TV show. Sigh.
The only thing of interest? Jughead and Reggie's investigation. Except over the course of these several issues, it advances a few inches.
And thanks, Archie, for padding out this collection with some old comic that no one wants to read. Always a pleasure.
July 27, 2021
I had zero recollection of what happened in the first collection, and considering I read it almost a year ago, that makes sense. I was able to suss out generally what had happened, but a lot of the finer details are lost.
That said, I did enjoy this. I loved Betty and Veronica vowing that their competition over Archie is over - only to go right into another fight (about a forest.) I have zero idea about what's going on with Reggie's dad, but I am digging the very Riverdale feeling about that plot, and Jughead's portrayal. And I really like Archie and Sabrina, but did I miss something? How did he find out she was a witch?
That said, I did enjoy this. I loved Betty and Veronica vowing that their competition over Archie is over - only to go right into another fight (about a forest.) I have zero idea about what's going on with Reggie's dad, but I am digging the very Riverdale feeling about that plot, and Jughead's portrayal. And I really like Archie and Sabrina, but did I miss something? How did he find out she was a witch?
August 11, 2021
I hate to say this, because I really do love this series. But the end of the "Archie and Sabrina" arc dropped the ball hard. Sabrina Spellman was one of the most compelling characters in the reboot, an ocean of cool and calm amidst the chaos, drama and slapstick surrounding her. But her story arc and relationship just... end. (Granted, they end because she's here to promote her own solo book.) And the Reggie/Jughead mystery arc builds to a big reveal, but it's a reveal that reveals absolutely nothing. With only four issues left before its hiatus, will the Archie reboot end on a bang or fizzle into sleep mode like "Afterlife with Archie" did?
January 15, 2020
3.5/5 stars
May 4, 2020
3.5⭐️
November 13, 2022
This second volume is lighter in tone than the first and to be honest I think it's an improvement. We don't get any development on most of the secrets and plot threads that were begun in volume 1, but Sabrina is fleshed out much more, and there's an interesting new storyline involving Betty and Veronica and the preservation of some ecologically significant woodland.
The art is still great. The flashback issue in particular is drawn in a really cute style which actually makes the characters look more like the ages they're meant to be, instead of staggeringly beautiful adults.
I'm increasingly suspicious that we will never get answers to a lot of the storylines begun last issue - what happened to the Pussycats on tour? Will Midge ever come clean to Moose? What's going on with Jason Blossom? Will we ever find out?
The art is still great. The flashback issue in particular is drawn in a really cute style which actually makes the characters look more like the ages they're meant to be, instead of staggeringly beautiful adults.
I'm increasingly suspicious that we will never get answers to a lot of the storylines begun last issue - what happened to the Pussycats on tour? Will Midge ever come clean to Moose? What's going on with Jason Blossom? Will we ever find out?
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December 23, 2021Flashing back to explain how the two of them got together, it's lovely to see Nick Spencer back on the sort of intimate, small-scale story where he tugs the heartstrings much more effectively than with his flailing attempts at epic. Though in truth that headline billing is misleading, given Mariko Tamaki co-writes the whole volume. Jenn St Onge's art gives the kids the right youthful luminosity, while also dialling down what could have been the Riverdale darkness of some story elements to a pleasingly spooky tingle.
September 20, 2020
Sigue muy interesante, cuenta la historia de cómo se conocieron Archie y Sabrina, entre otras. Quizás aún hay cosas que no entiendo... como ¿qué hacen las tías de Sabrina en el bosque?, ¿entonces Sabrina fue quién cogió al padre de Reggie? ¿El padre de Reggie está muerto? ¿es el cadáver encontrado?, ¿qué pasará con Verónica y Betty?, ¿cuál es la historia del bosque de Riverdale? Espero que saquen más y que resuelvan estas incógnitas que tengo.
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April 16, 2020
Not really vibing with the Archie and Sabrina relationship, but I feel like that’s partially because nothing happened in this volume? The art is gorgeous and the Jughead/Reggie and Betty/Veronica storylines could be interesting if they go somewhere in the next volume, but this one was a whole lot of nothing.
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September 8, 2020
Loved this one. Maybe because of all the Sabrina?!
In this volume you get your answer to how Archie and Sabrina met and if you ask me it’s perfect. I do love her and Archie together but am a little confused on the reading order and does this connect to the new Sabrina comics? Either way I loved it and am glad that I read it.
In this volume you get your answer to how Archie and Sabrina met and if you ask me it’s perfect. I do love her and Archie together but am a little confused on the reading order and does this connect to the new Sabrina comics? Either way I loved it and am glad that I read it.
October 31, 2022
Han cambiado el dibujo en algunas partes que parecía como más de un público más pequeño pero es que a mi me ha gustado también entonces feliz.
Esta historia está mucho mejor que la primera y además me ha gustado que incluyan la primera aparición de Sabrina y Archie en los cómics porque no lo sabía y ha molado, aunque se notaba antiguo por las cosas que pasaban y ciertos personajes pero bueno.
Esta historia está mucho mejor que la primera y además me ha gustado que incluyan la primera aparición de Sabrina y Archie en los cómics porque no lo sabía y ha molado, aunque se notaba antiguo por las cosas que pasaban y ciertos personajes pero bueno.
December 12, 2021
Who would’ve thought this crossover would work so well
I was skeptical but the crossover worlds just work and they’re simply fun. I do wish they went a little deeper sometimes but I’m excited for the next one.
I was skeptical but the crossover worlds just work and they’re simply fun. I do wish they went a little deeper sometimes but I’m excited for the next one.
January 6, 2022
Could Sabrina really every be with just some HUMAN boy!? We shall see. A boring summer for the whole gang as the girls are mostly gone and Jughead and Reggie are still looking for Reggie's father. A nice classic issue from Archie's TV Laugh Out.
March 16, 2025
had some cutesy moments (not many) but when did sabrina move to riverdale ?? also who hasn’t archie dated lmao. didn’t really like how they portrayed sabrina, she kinda reminded me of kami garcia’s raven at times. i’m also not sure if they’d work as a couple. overall didn’t really like
August 28, 2025
I liked this a tad bit more than the first volume because of the flashback issues (that art was so cute). I do wish there was more progression on uncovering any of the mysteries, though.
Edit: just found out none of the mysteries are ever answered :( great.
Edit: just found out none of the mysteries are ever answered :( great.
July 10, 2020
Loved this! Especially the art by Jen St-Onge! One of my favourites.
September 13, 2020
I really liked Jenn St-Onge's art in the chapters of Archie and Sabrina's first summer together!!
January 9, 2021
Ups and downs in Volume 2. Overall, a fun and edgy read for Archie fans. Onto the next and Archie shifts his focus to Katy Keene.
April 3, 2021
I liked the pairing of Archie and Sabrina a lot, they were cute and interesting as a couple but the ending was too abrupt. It felt like nothing really happened
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