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Archie Meets Glee by Dan Parent, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

liralen's review

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3.0

This was...okay. I wish the writers hadn't spend quite so much time on the convoluted parallel-universe storyline, as it left very little time for the characters to actually develop and interact. It felt rather as though most of them were introduced, their most superficial roles were established, and then they only popped up again to establish that they were still obeying those superficial roles. If anything, this served largely as a reminder of how Archie has traditionally fallen short of inclusiveness. There's no mention of Quinn's pregnancy; we're reminded that although Archie now has a (lone) gay character (and they had to bring in a new character for this, because they couldn't possibly make an existing character gay) and the occasional POC, that's about as diverse as it gets. It's interesting to see Santana in the comic, because if she were an Archie original, we'd know she was Latina because she'd sprinkle little bits of Spanish throughout all of her dialogue. (Meanwhile, whoever designed the cover went for thin, white, able-bodied characters.)

Not catastrophic, but distinctly meh.

renatasnacks's review against another edition

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3.0

This feels like fanfiction for Riverdale that was sent back from the future. I barely remember anything about Glee anymore but when I found out that this was a real book that existed, and was held by a library in my consortium, I obviously had to check it out.

Honestly it was really fun. However I would also read the dark version where Riverdale crosses over with Glee and the Serpents stone-cold murder someone and the River Vixens put on their funeral uniforms for a special performance.

loverofeels's review

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2.5

hilarious and terrible 

calistareads's review against another edition

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3.0

I'm sure this will surprise many people, but I loved Glee. I own the DVD's and yes the show got stupid, but those first 3 years were awesome. I have recently been won over by the Archie verse. I have never thought to compare those two, but they do have similar characters that match up. There is a Jughead Jones and a Mercedes Jones. I never put these things together. I love that part of this comic.

This was totally silly and whimsical. It's pure sugar, like cotton candy as it melts in your mouth. I had a lot of fun with this story. It was worth getting ILL. I'm glad the library had the story. It's really not worth going into the story. It's mostly fan fic.

jmanchester0's review against another edition

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3.0

Kinda fun, but not really anything to sing about. (Get it! Ha!)

hargunkaursachdev's review

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3.0

The 15 year old me would have loved to read this and even now it was pretty amusing. But that's just it. It was so in your face - all the parallels in both the universes. There was nothing funny or interesting...I wonder were the comics always this way.

mistyfoot19's review

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4.0

To be sure, this is much more an Archie comic than a Glee story- but for a fan of both, an amusing diversion. When Dilton makes a connection with an alternate dimension, where kids seem to burst into song, something goes wrong- and the two universes end up all jumbled up!
Few of the Glee characters look anything like their live-action personas, yet its still cute to read and watch them deal with drama in the Archie style.

cosmicjellies's review

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3.0

roberto aguirre-sacasa is too powerful

erinthevampireslayer's review

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3.0

This was okay; I did really like seeing which Glee and Archive characters were similar, but the story got super repetitive with continuously explaining what happened in the previous comics; like this is not a complicated plot, they didn't need to over-explain.