Interesting lead story in the new issue of World of Archie Comics Double Digest (#48), which just arrived. The script for “Snack Attack” is by Tania Del Rio, who usually draws her own work and has a manga sensibility. Art is by Rex Lindsey, the longtime Jughead artist given to longer adventures. Both Del Rio and Lindsey tend to use more dialogue and panels than is the norm for Archie creators, so it’s a good fit. The story’s weird—absurd and excessive, with an obvious but well-rendered ending.
Big range of artists in this particular digest: DeCarlo and Goldberg, of course, but also Bolling, Parent, Ruiz, Vigoda, Colan and Dan DeCarlo Jr.
As for non-Archie stories, there’s quite a lot of Suzie and Super Duck. The Suzie tales feature a lot of provocative pin-up poses, neatly balanced elsewhere in the book by a Miss Beazly fashion page.