Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-28151175-20170117192700/@comment-27084012-20170117195149

It depends which comics you mean. It's true that the series is darker than the traditional Archie comics, but all kinds of stories have been told about the Archie characters over the years. For example, Afterlife with Archie and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina are apocalyptic horror stories, and the new Archie reboot is much more modern than the older comics. I think Riverdale is in keeping with the tradition of providing a different take on these stories.