Life With Archie may be the Archie comic that’s attracting the most attention lately, but that doesn’t mean big things aren’t brewing in the zombie-themed Afterlife With Archie series as well. After a brief hiatus, writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and artist Francesco Francavilla are back to kick off the series’ second story arc. And it promises to be an ideal jumping-on point for new readers curious about this darker, deadlier version of Riverdale.

Aguirre-Sacasa says, “Issue 6 is both a stand-alone story, focusing on where Sabrina’s been since the first issue of ‘Afterlife,’ but it also plays into the series’ larger mythology, showing that the zombie apocalypse is only the first wave of horror that will engulf our characters. It’s also an unabashed love letter to one of the greatest American horror writers of all time, H.P. Lovecraft; in fact, he’s a character in the book, which is really an interweaving of two great, iconic American mythologies: Lovecraft’s mythos and Archie’s 75-year history.”

…