Post by Eric on Oct 4, 2014 15:31:50 GMT -6
In this topic I plan to create a timeline of the Afterlife with Archie series, what deaths occur, what special events happen, so if we forget what happens or have not read the series in awhile you can refer to this handy guide to catch up on the series.
Note: There will be many spoilers in this topic.
Escape from Riverdale Story Arc- Issues 1-5:
Is the first five part story arc of Afterlife with Archie which comprises the first five issues and tells the story of how the Zombie Apocalypse came to Riverdale when Jughead asked Sabrina to use forbidden magic to bring his dead dog back to life. This event leads to a Zombie plague with Jughead as the first victim. Eventually this story arc ends when Riverdale is overrun by the undead army that the undead Jughead has created and is leading and Archie and the remaning survivors leaving their beloved Riverdale which has become a place of death to seek safe haven somewhere out in the word. Little do they know that Jughead and his undead army may not be far behind them. More detailed description of each issue below
Witch in the Dreamhouse Stand Alone Story- Issue 6
Tells the story of what happened to Sabrina after she was stripped of her witch powers and banished for one year to the Nether-Realm for using forbidden and dark magic in Issue 1 to resurrect Jughead's dog. More detailed issue info below.
Betty: RIP Story Arc-Issues 7-12
-Little is known for this second arc as the first issue for this arc, issue 7 will be released in December 2014, followed by issue 8 in February 2015 and issues 9-12 during the rest of 2015.
-It is possible based on the name of the story arc that we may loose our beloved Betty Cooper, a major Archie character, one of the first major characters after Jughead to be lost to the Zombie invasion if this happens.
-Issue 7 releasing in December 2014 will take place in the forests of Pennsylvania, weeks after Archie and the gang have left Riverdale. In these forests as the gang settles in for a Thanksgiving dinner in a completely changed world little do they know the danger that will soon come.
-Issue 8 releasing in February 2015 will take place in a hotel in Winter as the gang settles in for Christmas and Mr. Lodge and Mrs. Andrews recalls a time long ago when the adults of Riverdale made a pact with the witches of Greendale which may have led to what is happening today with the Zombie invasion of Riverdale and the entire world.
Afterlife with Archie #1 (Released October 2013)
Escape from Riverdale Arc-Part 1 of 5
1)The issue begins with Jughead in tears and pleads to Sabrina for help because Hot Dog, his beloved dog and friend of many years, has been run over by a vehicle which we later learn was driven by Reggie.
2)Sabrina uses the Necronomicon, a forbidden dark magic to resurrect Hot Dog. The spell is performed and Jughead is asked to go home to see if it has worked.
3)For using the forbidden dark magic Sabrina is stripped of her powers and banished to a one year confinement to the Nether-Realm by her aunts Hilda and Zelda.
4)Jughead goes home to see if the dark magic has worked. It has but not in the way he expected it. Hot Dog has been resurrected but not as a living and breathing animal he remembers but as an undead creature that only seeks blood and death of the living!
5)Not knowing what has happened to Hot Dog, Jughead approaches his beloved dog and friend and is bitten. The Undead Virus claims it's first victim and contagion begins in Riverdale.
6)Archie visits his friend Jughead because he learns he is sick. When he arrives he sees Jughead is very sick but little does Archie know that the Undead Virus is within Jughead and will soon claim his humanity completely for later that night Jughead would begin his reign of terror, starting at the Riverdale High School Halloween dance.
7)The undead virus turns Jughead completely into an undead creature full of hatred, seeking only blood and death of the living and Jughead claims Riverdale's first human victims, his own parents.
8)Now as a zombie Jughead targets Riverdale High where there is a Halloween dance. His first victims at Riverdale High are Principal Weatherbee and Teacher Miss Grundy who had been chaperoning the dance unaware of the danger that would come for them that night.
9)The issue ends with Jughead crashing the Halloween dance party while Archie and the gang believe that Jughead is in costume unaware of the danger and death that he brings that night and of the many victims that Jughead has already taken and turned undead!
Deaths and new Undead Zombies in Issue 1: Hot Dog (First undead victim and first animal death), Jughead (First human victim), Jughead's parents, Principal Mr. Weatherbee, Teacher Miss Grundy.
Afterlife with Archie #2 (Released November 2013)
Escape from Riverdale Arc: Part 2 of 5
1)The issue opens with the undead Jughead crashing the Halloween party. There Jughead claims another victim, Ethel.
2)At first the gang at the dance believe that Jughead has dressed up for Halloween. When Jughead attacks Ethel then they realize this is for real and chaos begins as everyone at the dance runs for their life.
3)We also find out in this issue that Ginger and Nancy have had some intimate moments together and are seeing each other but Nancy finds it hard to admit to herself that she likes women.
4)Jughead's dad now a Zombie attacks Pop Tates chocolate shop where Ginger and Nancy are having dinner.
5)Archie, Betty, Veronica, Moose, Chuck, Midge, Dilton and Kevin have encounters with Jughead and Ethel not knowing what has happened to them. Archie thinks its rabies but Dilton points out that they are infected and that a Zombie apocalypse has begun in Riverdale.
6)Seeing chaos everywhere and Jughead and Ethel as Zombies and the undead army growing as the contagion spreads through Riverdale Archie and the rest of the gang go to the only place they still think is safe, Lodge Mansion.
7)The issue ends with the remaining Riverdale gang at Lodge Mansion but with the message that one of the gang that is there is already infected from the attack at the dance. Who is it? That is revealed in issue 3.
Deaths and new Undead Zombies in Issue 2: Ethel
Afterlife with Archie #3 (Released January 2014)
Escape from Riverdale Arc Part 3 of 5
1)The issue opens with Mr. Lodge remembering when his wife Hermione was alive and in this nightmare appearing to him as a zombie and warning him for coming to Riverdale, which has now become a place of death.
2)When Mr. Loge awakens from his nightmare Smithers, the butler informs him about the security of the mansion.
3)Archie not knowing what has happened to his parents ventures out from the mansion through a sewers entrance to go back to his home.
4)Once Archie ventures out from the sewers he finds that Pop Tates is on fire because Ginger and Nancy have put fire to it so that Pop Tate and Jugheads father do not terrorize anyone more as Zombies.
5)In the next scene we find out that the infected victim in the last issue was Midge who also infects Moose in this issue. Both Midge and Moose now as Zombies are trapped in the indoor swimming pool at Lodge Mansion.
6)The issue ends with Archie arriving at his house and being surprised by Jugheads undead Dog, Hot Dog, who is ready to attack him.
Deaths and new Undead Zombies in Issue 3: Midge, Moose, Pop Tate, Mayor Martinez (Mayor of Riverdale)
(Note: Pop Tate and Jughead's father may be gone if the fire took care of them in the issue.)
Afterlife with Archie #4 (Released March 2014)
Escape from Riverdale Arc Part 4 of 5
1)This issue begins with a flashback memory of earlier and peaceful days when Archie's parents Fred and Mary Andrews allow Archie to have a puppy named Vegas, a dog who would later in life prove just how loyal he is to Archie.
2)As the last issue closed with Archie coming back to his home and Hot Dog ready to attack him this issue continues after the above flashback with Vegas saving Archie's life from being attacked and turned into a dreaded Zombie.
3)The next scene is one of sacrifice and love as Vegas sacrifices his life to allow his beloved Archie to escape and live to fight another day. Archie will not let this sacrifice be in vain and he escapes to see what happened to his parents.
4)In the house Archie finds the answers he is looking for: his mom is alive and hiding in one of the rooms, while Archie's father Fred has been turned into an undead Zombie. In one of the series most memorable events Archie in order to escape and to keep his mom safe uses a bat to stop and defeat the zombie who in life had been a wonderful father and friend, Fred Andrews. It truly must have been difficult for Archie to do this to what once was a great father but these are difficult and challenging times in Riverdale and survival of the few that remain alive matters above all else!
5)With Archie's father Fred Andrews taken care of, Archie is able to make it to the garage with his mom but not before he meets with the now undead Vegas. Finding another route Archie and his mom quickly avoid Vegas who now wants to kill and eat his former master to make it to Archie's jalopy and escape the home that is now filled with undead and death. In tears Archie vows that he will not fail his mother as he feels that he failed to save his father in time.
6)The issue ends with a gruesome scene as we see that Jughead has amassed a huge army of Undead that include Ethel, the dogs Hot Dog and Vegas and a huge army of other Riverdale residents that the contagion has taken. Jughead is leading them, and the direction they are headed for is Lodge Mansion! The contagion has now spread throughout the whole of Riverdale and now it seems that no place is safe!
(In this issue we also see that the twins Cherly Blossom and Jason Blossom love each other very much and are very intimate with each other as well.)
Deaths and new undead in Issue 4: Vegas (Archie's dog), Fred Andrews(Archie defeats his undead father)
Afterlife with Archie Issue #5 (Released May 2014)
Escape from Riverdale Arc Part 5 of 5
1)The issue begins as Smithers, Mr. Lodge's butler, recounting the earlier days with the Lodge family and how he has taken care of Veronica for many years, seen everything the Lodge family has gone through and now he must help them as has helped them for so many years to get through this dreaded Zombie apocalypse.
2)Reggie in one scene is in regret for running over Hot Dog, which he blames for everything that is now happening.
3)After loosing his father in the last issue, Archie in tears turns to Betty and not Veronica for compassion and support. Veronica seeing this is in tears herself as she thought Archie would come to her.
4)Knowing that the Zombie Army led by Jughead is now threatening Lodge Mansion, Archie decides the only choice they have now is to leave the Lodge Mansion and leave Riverdale to find a safer haven somewhere else as Lodge Mansion will soon fall as has all of Riverdale.
5)Archie hopes to use the sewer system that he used to get back to town before but as they try to use this route they see that Zombies have now filled the sewer system, and the first Zombies to come are poor Bettys parents, Hal and Alice.
6)Knowing that another route of escape is needed but with Jughead's undead army blocking most routes outside the mansion, a diversion of fireworks is used to temporarily distract the Zombies so that the group can escape.
7)It seems that this diversion works as the issue mentions that possibly a small sliver of the Zombies former lives remains, that of remembering past memories such as firework displays and other good and happy memories they had when they were human. But this is only a sliver of humanity that remains as everything else they think of is: blood, death and hatred for the living.
8)Archie becomes an unexpected hero since after loosing his father and almost his mother he vows to not let anything like that happen to anyone else he loves. With new strength and resolve Archie leads the remaining gang out of Riverdale and hopefully to find other humans or a safe haven somewhere out in the world.
Deaths and new Undead in Issue 5: Bettys Parents: Hal and Alice, Coach Cleats
Remaining Riverdale residents alive at Issue 5 (14 remain: 11 teenagers and 3 adults): Archie, Betty, Veronica, Kevin, Reggie, Dilton, Chuck, Nancy, Ginger, Cheryl and Jason Blossom, Mary Andrews, Hiram Lodge, Smithers.
-This is the end of the first arc, Escape from Riverdale. The story will continue in issue 7 coming in October 2014. The next issue, Issue 6, is a standalone issue and deals with what happened to Sabrina after her powers were stripped and she was banished to the Nether-Realm for using forbidden dark magic.
-The Zombies featured in the series are very intelligent such as Jughead leading the army of Undead and hunting his former friends.
Afterlife with Archie Issue 6 (Released July 2014)
Standalone story- Witch in the Glass House
1)This is the first issue that is a standalone story that centers on Sabrina and what happened to her after her aunts stripped her of her powers and banished her to the Nether-Realm for an entire year.
2)The issue begins as Sabrina lies on a beach peacefully with her boyfriend Harvey. But things eventually go from bad to worse as Sabrina and Harvey go swimming and Sabrina ends up being trapped by some beast in the deep waters that threatens to drown her.
3)But this is only a vision that she recounts of some beast that threatens her to Dr. Lovecraft, a doctor that is taking care of her for an illness it seems she has. She is in some kind of hospital and has been there for some time but can't quite remember everything that has happened but bits and pieces of the past because of the pills she has been given which also do not allow her to use her magic.
4)In reality the hospital, Doctor Lovecraft and others there are all part of some occult that had taken Sabrina from the Nether-Realm for some grand purpose she is to play and that they had been preparing Sabrina for something that is to happen very soon and that everything that is happening now had already been foretold thousands of years ago. More interesting and surprising is that Sabrina's aunts Hilda and Zelda show up near the end of the issue. Are they part of this too?
5)It seems that Sabrina is to be the bride of Cthulhu, a great beast of legend and one that threatens to bring the downfall of man as seen by the Zombie apocalypse that is now ravaging Riverdale.
6)The issue closes with the words that what an age old cult had failed to do Sabrina was able to do by accident when she unleashed the Zombie plague on Riverdale by using forbidden dark magic to resurrect Hot Dog. The last image is that of Sabrina chained up and overlooking an ocean as the great beast Cthulhu rises from the sea to claim her as his bride. Will Sabrina escape? What of the great Cthulhu? Will Cthulhu bring doom to the world? Future issues will reveal the rest!
-No deaths or undead of any Riverdale characters in this issue as the story centers on Sabrina and away from Riverdale.
Afterlife with Archie #7 (Released December 2014)
Betty RIP Arc- Part 1 of 6
-Will take place weeks after issue 5 in the forests of Pennsylvania after Archie and the gang have fled Riverdale
-As they hunt for a Thanksgiving meal in the forests, little do they know of the danger that will soon come for them.
-Not all of them will make it out of the forest alive.
-First holiday issue of Afterlife with Archie that takes place during Thanksgiving and one that takes place outside of Riverdale
-Detailed issue info with the comic is released.
Who will be left of the 14 remainding Riverdale residents?
-14 remaining survivors from Riverdale that we know of.
(Archie, Betty, Veronica, Nancy, Chuck, Dilton, Ginger, Reggie, Jason, Cheryl, Kevin Keller, Mrs. Andrews, Mr. Lodge, Smithers)
-We have 11 teenagers in the group and 3 adults
Afterlife with Archie #8 (Released February 2015)
Betty RIP Arc Part 2 of 6
-Not yet released,
-This issue will take place in a hotel during Winter as a snow storm ravages the area.
-Hiram Lodge and Mary Andrews will recount the tale when the adults of Riverdale made some kind of pact with the Witches of Greendale that may have led to the Zombie apocalypse that is now occurring.
-So it seems that what Sabrina did with bringing about the Zombie apocalypse as well as the events that occurred in issue 6 may have something to do with this pact that happened many years ago.
-This is the second holiday issue in Afterlife with Archie that takes place during Christmas.
-It is possible that Jingles the magical elf that appears to Archie and the gang during Christmas may make an appearance in this issue.
-Detailed issue info soon.
Note: There will be many spoilers in this topic.
Escape from Riverdale Story Arc- Issues 1-5:
Is the first five part story arc of Afterlife with Archie which comprises the first five issues and tells the story of how the Zombie Apocalypse came to Riverdale when Jughead asked Sabrina to use forbidden magic to bring his dead dog back to life. This event leads to a Zombie plague with Jughead as the first victim. Eventually this story arc ends when Riverdale is overrun by the undead army that the undead Jughead has created and is leading and Archie and the remaning survivors leaving their beloved Riverdale which has become a place of death to seek safe haven somewhere out in the word. Little do they know that Jughead and his undead army may not be far behind them. More detailed description of each issue below
Witch in the Dreamhouse Stand Alone Story- Issue 6
Tells the story of what happened to Sabrina after she was stripped of her witch powers and banished for one year to the Nether-Realm for using forbidden and dark magic in Issue 1 to resurrect Jughead's dog. More detailed issue info below.
Betty: RIP Story Arc-Issues 7-12
-Little is known for this second arc as the first issue for this arc, issue 7 will be released in December 2014, followed by issue 8 in February 2015 and issues 9-12 during the rest of 2015.
-It is possible based on the name of the story arc that we may loose our beloved Betty Cooper, a major Archie character, one of the first major characters after Jughead to be lost to the Zombie invasion if this happens.
-Issue 7 releasing in December 2014 will take place in the forests of Pennsylvania, weeks after Archie and the gang have left Riverdale. In these forests as the gang settles in for a Thanksgiving dinner in a completely changed world little do they know the danger that will soon come.
-Issue 8 releasing in February 2015 will take place in a hotel in Winter as the gang settles in for Christmas and Mr. Lodge and Mrs. Andrews recalls a time long ago when the adults of Riverdale made a pact with the witches of Greendale which may have led to what is happening today with the Zombie invasion of Riverdale and the entire world.
Afterlife with Archie Timeline
Afterlife with Archie #1 (Released October 2013)
Escape from Riverdale Arc-Part 1 of 5
1)The issue begins with Jughead in tears and pleads to Sabrina for help because Hot Dog, his beloved dog and friend of many years, has been run over by a vehicle which we later learn was driven by Reggie.
2)Sabrina uses the Necronomicon, a forbidden dark magic to resurrect Hot Dog. The spell is performed and Jughead is asked to go home to see if it has worked.
3)For using the forbidden dark magic Sabrina is stripped of her powers and banished to a one year confinement to the Nether-Realm by her aunts Hilda and Zelda.
4)Jughead goes home to see if the dark magic has worked. It has but not in the way he expected it. Hot Dog has been resurrected but not as a living and breathing animal he remembers but as an undead creature that only seeks blood and death of the living!
5)Not knowing what has happened to Hot Dog, Jughead approaches his beloved dog and friend and is bitten. The Undead Virus claims it's first victim and contagion begins in Riverdale.
6)Archie visits his friend Jughead because he learns he is sick. When he arrives he sees Jughead is very sick but little does Archie know that the Undead Virus is within Jughead and will soon claim his humanity completely for later that night Jughead would begin his reign of terror, starting at the Riverdale High School Halloween dance.
7)The undead virus turns Jughead completely into an undead creature full of hatred, seeking only blood and death of the living and Jughead claims Riverdale's first human victims, his own parents.
8)Now as a zombie Jughead targets Riverdale High where there is a Halloween dance. His first victims at Riverdale High are Principal Weatherbee and Teacher Miss Grundy who had been chaperoning the dance unaware of the danger that would come for them that night.
9)The issue ends with Jughead crashing the Halloween dance party while Archie and the gang believe that Jughead is in costume unaware of the danger and death that he brings that night and of the many victims that Jughead has already taken and turned undead!
Deaths and new Undead Zombies in Issue 1: Hot Dog (First undead victim and first animal death), Jughead (First human victim), Jughead's parents, Principal Mr. Weatherbee, Teacher Miss Grundy.
Afterlife with Archie #2 (Released November 2013)
Escape from Riverdale Arc: Part 2 of 5
1)The issue opens with the undead Jughead crashing the Halloween party. There Jughead claims another victim, Ethel.
2)At first the gang at the dance believe that Jughead has dressed up for Halloween. When Jughead attacks Ethel then they realize this is for real and chaos begins as everyone at the dance runs for their life.
3)We also find out in this issue that Ginger and Nancy have had some intimate moments together and are seeing each other but Nancy finds it hard to admit to herself that she likes women.
4)Jughead's dad now a Zombie attacks Pop Tates chocolate shop where Ginger and Nancy are having dinner.
5)Archie, Betty, Veronica, Moose, Chuck, Midge, Dilton and Kevin have encounters with Jughead and Ethel not knowing what has happened to them. Archie thinks its rabies but Dilton points out that they are infected and that a Zombie apocalypse has begun in Riverdale.
6)Seeing chaos everywhere and Jughead and Ethel as Zombies and the undead army growing as the contagion spreads through Riverdale Archie and the rest of the gang go to the only place they still think is safe, Lodge Mansion.
7)The issue ends with the remaining Riverdale gang at Lodge Mansion but with the message that one of the gang that is there is already infected from the attack at the dance. Who is it? That is revealed in issue 3.
Deaths and new Undead Zombies in Issue 2: Ethel
Afterlife with Archie #3 (Released January 2014)
Escape from Riverdale Arc Part 3 of 5
1)The issue opens with Mr. Lodge remembering when his wife Hermione was alive and in this nightmare appearing to him as a zombie and warning him for coming to Riverdale, which has now become a place of death.
2)When Mr. Loge awakens from his nightmare Smithers, the butler informs him about the security of the mansion.
3)Archie not knowing what has happened to his parents ventures out from the mansion through a sewers entrance to go back to his home.
4)Once Archie ventures out from the sewers he finds that Pop Tates is on fire because Ginger and Nancy have put fire to it so that Pop Tate and Jugheads father do not terrorize anyone more as Zombies.
5)In the next scene we find out that the infected victim in the last issue was Midge who also infects Moose in this issue. Both Midge and Moose now as Zombies are trapped in the indoor swimming pool at Lodge Mansion.
6)The issue ends with Archie arriving at his house and being surprised by Jugheads undead Dog, Hot Dog, who is ready to attack him.
Deaths and new Undead Zombies in Issue 3: Midge, Moose, Pop Tate, Mayor Martinez (Mayor of Riverdale)
(Note: Pop Tate and Jughead's father may be gone if the fire took care of them in the issue.)
Afterlife with Archie #4 (Released March 2014)
Escape from Riverdale Arc Part 4 of 5
1)This issue begins with a flashback memory of earlier and peaceful days when Archie's parents Fred and Mary Andrews allow Archie to have a puppy named Vegas, a dog who would later in life prove just how loyal he is to Archie.
2)As the last issue closed with Archie coming back to his home and Hot Dog ready to attack him this issue continues after the above flashback with Vegas saving Archie's life from being attacked and turned into a dreaded Zombie.
3)The next scene is one of sacrifice and love as Vegas sacrifices his life to allow his beloved Archie to escape and live to fight another day. Archie will not let this sacrifice be in vain and he escapes to see what happened to his parents.
4)In the house Archie finds the answers he is looking for: his mom is alive and hiding in one of the rooms, while Archie's father Fred has been turned into an undead Zombie. In one of the series most memorable events Archie in order to escape and to keep his mom safe uses a bat to stop and defeat the zombie who in life had been a wonderful father and friend, Fred Andrews. It truly must have been difficult for Archie to do this to what once was a great father but these are difficult and challenging times in Riverdale and survival of the few that remain alive matters above all else!
5)With Archie's father Fred Andrews taken care of, Archie is able to make it to the garage with his mom but not before he meets with the now undead Vegas. Finding another route Archie and his mom quickly avoid Vegas who now wants to kill and eat his former master to make it to Archie's jalopy and escape the home that is now filled with undead and death. In tears Archie vows that he will not fail his mother as he feels that he failed to save his father in time.
6)The issue ends with a gruesome scene as we see that Jughead has amassed a huge army of Undead that include Ethel, the dogs Hot Dog and Vegas and a huge army of other Riverdale residents that the contagion has taken. Jughead is leading them, and the direction they are headed for is Lodge Mansion! The contagion has now spread throughout the whole of Riverdale and now it seems that no place is safe!
(In this issue we also see that the twins Cherly Blossom and Jason Blossom love each other very much and are very intimate with each other as well.)
Deaths and new undead in Issue 4: Vegas (Archie's dog), Fred Andrews(Archie defeats his undead father)
Afterlife with Archie Issue #5 (Released May 2014)
Escape from Riverdale Arc Part 5 of 5
1)The issue begins as Smithers, Mr. Lodge's butler, recounting the earlier days with the Lodge family and how he has taken care of Veronica for many years, seen everything the Lodge family has gone through and now he must help them as has helped them for so many years to get through this dreaded Zombie apocalypse.
2)Reggie in one scene is in regret for running over Hot Dog, which he blames for everything that is now happening.
3)After loosing his father in the last issue, Archie in tears turns to Betty and not Veronica for compassion and support. Veronica seeing this is in tears herself as she thought Archie would come to her.
4)Knowing that the Zombie Army led by Jughead is now threatening Lodge Mansion, Archie decides the only choice they have now is to leave the Lodge Mansion and leave Riverdale to find a safer haven somewhere else as Lodge Mansion will soon fall as has all of Riverdale.
5)Archie hopes to use the sewer system that he used to get back to town before but as they try to use this route they see that Zombies have now filled the sewer system, and the first Zombies to come are poor Bettys parents, Hal and Alice.
6)Knowing that another route of escape is needed but with Jughead's undead army blocking most routes outside the mansion, a diversion of fireworks is used to temporarily distract the Zombies so that the group can escape.
7)It seems that this diversion works as the issue mentions that possibly a small sliver of the Zombies former lives remains, that of remembering past memories such as firework displays and other good and happy memories they had when they were human. But this is only a sliver of humanity that remains as everything else they think of is: blood, death and hatred for the living.
8)Archie becomes an unexpected hero since after loosing his father and almost his mother he vows to not let anything like that happen to anyone else he loves. With new strength and resolve Archie leads the remaining gang out of Riverdale and hopefully to find other humans or a safe haven somewhere out in the world.
Deaths and new Undead in Issue 5: Bettys Parents: Hal and Alice, Coach Cleats
Remaining Riverdale residents alive at Issue 5 (14 remain: 11 teenagers and 3 adults): Archie, Betty, Veronica, Kevin, Reggie, Dilton, Chuck, Nancy, Ginger, Cheryl and Jason Blossom, Mary Andrews, Hiram Lodge, Smithers.
-This is the end of the first arc, Escape from Riverdale. The story will continue in issue 7 coming in October 2014. The next issue, Issue 6, is a standalone issue and deals with what happened to Sabrina after her powers were stripped and she was banished to the Nether-Realm for using forbidden dark magic.
-The Zombies featured in the series are very intelligent such as Jughead leading the army of Undead and hunting his former friends.
Afterlife with Archie Issue 6 (Released July 2014)
Standalone story- Witch in the Glass House
1)This is the first issue that is a standalone story that centers on Sabrina and what happened to her after her aunts stripped her of her powers and banished her to the Nether-Realm for an entire year.
2)The issue begins as Sabrina lies on a beach peacefully with her boyfriend Harvey. But things eventually go from bad to worse as Sabrina and Harvey go swimming and Sabrina ends up being trapped by some beast in the deep waters that threatens to drown her.
3)But this is only a vision that she recounts of some beast that threatens her to Dr. Lovecraft, a doctor that is taking care of her for an illness it seems she has. She is in some kind of hospital and has been there for some time but can't quite remember everything that has happened but bits and pieces of the past because of the pills she has been given which also do not allow her to use her magic.
4)In reality the hospital, Doctor Lovecraft and others there are all part of some occult that had taken Sabrina from the Nether-Realm for some grand purpose she is to play and that they had been preparing Sabrina for something that is to happen very soon and that everything that is happening now had already been foretold thousands of years ago. More interesting and surprising is that Sabrina's aunts Hilda and Zelda show up near the end of the issue. Are they part of this too?
5)It seems that Sabrina is to be the bride of Cthulhu, a great beast of legend and one that threatens to bring the downfall of man as seen by the Zombie apocalypse that is now ravaging Riverdale.
6)The issue closes with the words that what an age old cult had failed to do Sabrina was able to do by accident when she unleashed the Zombie plague on Riverdale by using forbidden dark magic to resurrect Hot Dog. The last image is that of Sabrina chained up and overlooking an ocean as the great beast Cthulhu rises from the sea to claim her as his bride. Will Sabrina escape? What of the great Cthulhu? Will Cthulhu bring doom to the world? Future issues will reveal the rest!
-No deaths or undead of any Riverdale characters in this issue as the story centers on Sabrina and away from Riverdale.
Afterlife with Archie #7 (Released December 2014)
Betty RIP Arc- Part 1 of 6
-Will take place weeks after issue 5 in the forests of Pennsylvania after Archie and the gang have fled Riverdale
-As they hunt for a Thanksgiving meal in the forests, little do they know of the danger that will soon come for them.
-Not all of them will make it out of the forest alive.
-First holiday issue of Afterlife with Archie that takes place during Thanksgiving and one that takes place outside of Riverdale
-Detailed issue info with the comic is released.
Who will be left of the 14 remainding Riverdale residents?
-14 remaining survivors from Riverdale that we know of.
(Archie, Betty, Veronica, Nancy, Chuck, Dilton, Ginger, Reggie, Jason, Cheryl, Kevin Keller, Mrs. Andrews, Mr. Lodge, Smithers)
-We have 11 teenagers in the group and 3 adults
Afterlife with Archie #8 (Released February 2015)
Betty RIP Arc Part 2 of 6
-Not yet released,
-This issue will take place in a hotel during Winter as a snow storm ravages the area.
-Hiram Lodge and Mary Andrews will recount the tale when the adults of Riverdale made some kind of pact with the Witches of Greendale that may have led to the Zombie apocalypse that is now occurring.
-So it seems that what Sabrina did with bringing about the Zombie apocalypse as well as the events that occurred in issue 6 may have something to do with this pact that happened many years ago.
-This is the second holiday issue in Afterlife with Archie that takes place during Christmas.
-It is possible that Jingles the magical elf that appears to Archie and the gang during Christmas may make an appearance in this issue.
-Detailed issue info soon.