Archie: Clash of the New Kids (Archie & Friends All-Stars) - Softcover

Simmons, Alex

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936975092 ISBN 13: 9781936975099

Publisher: Archie Comics, 2012

Synopsis

Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica have a lot of new friends and rivals when Riverdale High is invaded by fifty new kids! A nearby high school has closed due to budget cuts and 50 students and four teachers are transferred to Riverdale High. Archie and his friends have to step up their game when the new students bring serious competition to Riverdale. A stylish new girl who rivals Veronica, a talented photographer who threatens Betty's role at the school paper, and a tricky prankster even more cunning and crafty than Reggie are now all part of the mix! Amidst a healthy dose of slapstick humor and high school intrigue is an emphasis on the importance of embracing diversity, making new friends and resolving conflicts.

About this title

About the Author

Writer, producer, teacher and founder of Kids' Comic Con, Alex Simmons has become a fan-favorite author for teachers, parents and students alike. His work in the Archie universe has been hailed as entertaining and educational and has won a 2010 Glyph Best Writer Award. Simmons is also the founder and curator of the Color of Comics art exhibition and other creative art workshops for students and teachers and has received numerous rewards for his educational work.

From Booklist

When Archie Comics aren’t breaking barriers (Kevin Keller, 2012) or turning the universe upside down (Archie: The Married Life, 2011), they’re zipping along the same superficial, wide-eyed, and warmhearted trail they’ve been carving since the 1940s. This six-issue collection injects some fresh blood into old veins when a school closing transplants 50 students into Riverdale—and that means brand-new crushes and foils. Stylish vamp Sheila threatens to steal Veronica’s fashion crown; shutterbug Chloe keeps scooping Betty’s front-page photos; Moose is locked into a made-up feud with behemoth fullback Vincent; and Reggie finds himself the target of the nefarious “Prankenstein.” From time to time, Parent’s enthusiastic art gets a little sloppy joe, with eyes and breasts and sundry other body parts achieving the ridiculous. But we’re in this for the story, and it’s a sufficiently zany one, with Simmons risking some ambitious flashback structures and introducing multiculti and differently abled characters like it’s going out of style. Yummy Archie food for hungry Archie hounds. Grades 5-8. --Daniel Kraus

Edition details

• Publisher: Archie Comics
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1936975092
• ISBN 13: 9781936975099
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160
• Illustrator: Parent Dan