Archie's Weird Mysteries only ran for one season of 40 episodes, but it goes a long way toward explaining Archie Comics' creative director Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's obsession with creating and curating alternate, horrific worlds where some of the gang have become vampires or zombies or werewolves.
Take for example the episiode, "I Was a Teenage Vampire". It's really the middle part of a trilogy that introduced a female vampire, Scarlet, to the Archie Comics universe (she'd also appear in the comics version of the series). We've previously screened the followup episode, "Halloween Horror", and Scarlet's debut will be coming up soon. Anyway, scope it out, and I'll explain the significance of choosing this episode.
Today, nearly 20 years later, Veronica Lodge is a vampire again, albeit in one of those alternate realities. Vampironica is actually a parody of the long running Vampirella comic that has found a new home at Dynamite Entertainment in recent years. Vampironica, thankfully, is not written by Aguirre-Sacasa, who's spending more of his time in Hollywood & Vancouver, the latter being the site where Riverdale and the rest of Greg Berlanti's series are being shot. Aguirre-Sacasa has refused to continue the books he was writing at Archie or allow other writers to share his visions. In her new book, though, Ronnie's a heroine. Thank God.
No rating. Didn't see this the first time.
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