Riverdale
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I cant believe Im saying this, but Archiesfugitivedomseems to be going well.
He wears flannel and Patagonia.
Vegas pants happily by his side.Your L.L.
Bean Boyfriendhas found aFirewatch-esque gig talking to some lady via the radio and clearing trails.
Archie, that is, not Vegas.
And yet Reggies beer runs across the border are interrupted by beatings at the hands of Gargoyle gang members.
Veronica agrees, but supplies him with a well-cooked version of the clubs books.
Has anyone ever told you youre a badass?
Betty finds Evelyn and Polly talking up the Farm to her brainwashed little goslings and even handing out T-shirts.
A cult-themed college recruitment event!
Rather than exile Fangs, Jughead quietly grants him onetime leniency.
Unfooled by Veronicas creative accounting, Hiram dispatches a Gargoyle to terrorize Josie at home.
Hed like Veronicas accurate finances now, as well as the missing Glamerge egg, yo.
Theres no doubt who has it: Cheryl has been caught red-mouthed.
Jughead demands Cheryl and Tonis Serpent jackets on the basis of their latest B&E.
All three of them, including Fangs, are exiled.
(Is this how laws work?
Like, 80 percent sure.)
All right, whatever, shell testify in exchange for immunity.
An alarmingly pale Archie wakes up disoriented.
Or has he really woken up at all?
Archie draws a quest card that instructs him to defeat the hooded specter of death.
Suddenly, hes back in Pops, watching the Black Hood take aim at his father.
But this time, Archie tackles Freds would-be shooter, and returns to the cabin clutchingHal Coopers notorious balaclava.
Now, a blue-lippedWarden Nortongreets him.
Archie must find his do or die moment, he explains, the moment where everything went wrong.
Archies next quest card dispatches him to kill the Man in Black.
He dream-teleports to the Lodges apartment clutching a dagger that the dream-teleportation TSA must have missed during his pat-down.
Archie faces down one last target.
He stands in his childhood bedroom, looming over his own sleeping form with a bat.
Though Fred tries to talk him out if it, the Red Paladin cant be dissuaded.
He believes its his own fault for getting into all this trouble.
Elsewhere, we witness the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Veronica is officially under Jugheads protection now.
As for the supposedly defrocked Fangs, Jughead secretly assigns him to embed undercover with the Gargoyles.
Varchie is in the past, my children.
Veggie is our future.
You leave the house for five minutes, and what does your mom do?
Perhaps worse still, an anonymous donor (whoooooomcould that be?)
I, too, would die.
