Are they going to kill off Archie?!?

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Okay, I'm not sure this is the right forum, but since this is about comic book characters, and comic ARE an art, I'd thought I'd talk about it here. Yesterday I was out with a friend and when she was driving me home she noticed the car in front of us had the Superman S logo with blood dripping from it on their back window. She asked why it looked that way and I started telling her all about the "Death of Superman" comic series from back in the 90's, where Superman is actually killed by Doomsday, and all the hype about it, and that's where the bleeding S logo came from but whoever put it on their car window probably just thought it looked "cool". Then she asked "Are they going to kill Archie, too?" I was shocked and bewildered by her question. And I answered "They can't kill off Archie! I mean, he's been a cartoon teenager for over 80 years but they wouldn't literally kill him!" I just can't see them doing that to a kid-friendly comic book character aimed at both genders that I grew up with, it's just wrong in so many ways. She asked me if there were still Archie comics and I said yes! I see them in the store checkouts all the time. I don't know where she got the idea Archie was supposedly going to be killed. Maybe the franchise is finally going to be retired, but as sad as that would be, it wouldn't be the same. But more shocking things have happened. What's next, Mickey Mouse?

Supposedly he is to be shot and killed while protecting a gay friend who is being persecuted (and shot at). Archie is, as always, about the difficult issues of the world. My guess is that he will be no more dead than Superman or Captain America a year from now. If it is news that he died and precisely how before it has even happened, it is probably more publicity than anything else.

Publicity, exactly.

I doubt that the Comic-Con, D&D, RenFaire, LARP and paintball fans will listen to the message, anyway. The attempt by million-dollar anti-gun groups to win over the same audience that plays with assault-style paintball rifles, and reads other graphic depictions of indiscriminate weaponry and violence, is hardly the audience willing to be told how real firearms are evil. It seems to me that most gamers, LARPers, comic readers, cos-players and amateur fan-fiction writers are quite comfortable with the idea of most weapons including firearms, even if they don't own any themselves, and see no direct connection to the illegal violence warned about in Archie.

In other words, those behind the death of Archie took aim at the wrong audience who just don't care that much about the message that guns are automatically bad.

Am I mistaken, or is Archie's death sometime in the future, rather than happening in real time?

Alternate universe; according to a Wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_with_Archie article, "Life with Archie was a comic book published by Archie comics from 1958 to 1991. It featured Archie Andrews in adventure stories that were more dramatic than the standard Archie tales. In 2010, it was revived as a magazine-sized comic devoted to stories that grew out of Archie Marries Veronica/Archie Marries Betty. Archie's character was killed in the second to last issue, Life with Archie #36."

I don't like the fact that a well liked character has to die. I used to read the Archie comics and I was disappointed with the fact that Archie Had to die. Well I don't like the comics anymore.

I don't like the fact that a well liked character has to die. I used to read the Archie comics and I was disappointed with the fact that Archie Had to die. Well I don't like the comics anymore.