4.5 stars Introduction: After I had finished reading “Archie Volume One: The New Riverdale,” I figured that Archie Comics was going to do a reboot on one of their most beloved characters “Jughead!” So of course, I was on board with picking up the reboot of everyone’s favorite crazy and food obsessed weirdo in Chip Zdarsky’s take on “Jughead Volume One!” What is this story about? It is an ordinary day in Riverdale until Mr. Weatherbee, the principal of Riverdale High, is suddenly being r

Wish I could rate this one higher, but it seemed to fall apart there at the end. Still amusing, and I absolutely love Erica Henderson's characters. Zdarsky is a bit of a hit or miss for me, and I felt the first half was stronger than the somewhat lackadaisical and overly ironic second half. Jughead is portrayed as a likeable hero-that-no-one-thinks-is-hero, and is almost a rebellious anti hero and not just a mischievous little troublemaker who gets into his own shenanigans. Other characters seem...

I absolutely adored this. It was so freaking funny and clever. And all the pop culture references and spoofs were so spot on and creative. This was much needed as a break in the middle of my stressful week. [image error]

I learned a thing!There's a great joke in this book about Jughead's name, and it got me thinking. "What is a jug, anyway?"I found out. It's not that exciting. It's a cup but different.But THEN I found out how Jughead got his name!Okay, here we go.You know that crown he wears? Well, in the original comics, it wasn't a crown. It was a button beanie. I read a great article about it (linked below), but basically, when a grown-up was done wearing a hat, like an old fedora or some crap, a kid would ta...

While not quite as mind-blowing as the recent "Archie" relaunch, a great creative team coupled with an interesting character and decent writing/story means a great start to the new Jughead series!Highly recommended.

I couldn't really get into this. Erica Henderson's art does nothing for me. To me, it's really not at a good enough level for more than self-published books. Zdarsky tries really hard to make Jughead hip and cool, but the book was just meh. The plot makes zero sense and the dream interludes are just boring. Get on with the story!

Surprisingly excellent. Chip Zdarsky's irreverent, bizarre humour matches the Riverdale world well, and he's used the original comic format of lots of short stories to intersperse non-canon (probably) short arcs amid the longer arc. The longer arc in this one, btw, is that their high school has been taken over by a spy school, disrupting Jughead's very important nap and meal time. Anyways it's hilarious, it's well done on a technical level that I wasn't quite expecting, and gotta appreciate that...

I wanted to like this book so bad. Zdarsky is fun and Henderson's art is amazing, but just no...every issue is just half Jughead zoning out into some weird dream or video game world. It's too bad really because the parts that actually take place in real life are fun and rather compelling.

An Eisner award for Best Humor? Really? Different strokes, I guess...I wanted to like this. I did. I kept getting told I should read this because Jughead's asexual. That's nice, but representation doesn't equal quality, which this is sadly lacking.The story moves along in fits. The main plot is constantly interrupted by Jughead's daydream sequences that go nowhere, last too long, and are frankly pretty boring. didn't find any of it funny, and I know Chip Zdarsky can write better than this becaus...

This was really fun, I loved it! The writing was clever and the pacing was great. I know some people were annoyed by Jughead's dreams, but I thought they were really fun. I can't help but relate to Jughead, I too was once a high school student who hated high school, had crap grades, was really bizarre and off the wall, and hey! Asexual too.Speaking of that, it should be noted that Jughead is Asexual AND Aromantic. Which is valid, and a very needed representation for the community! However if you...

This was so much fun in the most ridiculous way possible!

I love this new Jughead series! Following on the fantastic reboot of Archie by Mark Wade (and originally with Fiona Staples), Jughead follows my favorite (stoner) Archie character through his adventures and vivid dreams (superheros, pirates, etc) as he and the Archie gang hang out at Pop's and save Riverdale High from the evil new Principal Stenger! The artwork by Erica Henderson is fun and the storyline (complete with some funny editorial comments) by Chip Zdarsky is entertaining cover to cover...

I absolutely LOVE Jughead. I always have and I always will. He is honestly such a relatable character and I was so excited to finally pick this up.Each issue within this bind-up contains a little mini dream sequence. These moments were a little strange at first and slightly hard to get used to, but eventually I ended up really enjoying them. This was a really fun and fast paced read and I'm glad I finished right on time for volume 2!P.S. I LOVE THAT THEY MENTION THAT JUGHEAD IS ASEXUAL. Hey CW/N...

This was a fun take on Juggie. As with Mark Waid's Archie, this is not intended to replace the iconic character, just be an interesting reinvention. It definitely delivers on that.Once you get over how different everyone looks, this is pretty fun. All the usual suspects are here: Archie, Betty, Reggie, Mr. Weatherbee, etc. A new principal arrives at Riverdale High and it's up to Juggie and the gang to restore the status quo. Zdarsky writes with wit and verve and his Jughead is every bit the lova...

A new principal arrives at Riverdale, giving Mr. Weatherbee the boot and everyone else detention. Can Jughead figure out Principal Stanger's game before he gets expelled?I'm kind of a sucker so I took advantage of Archie's 50% sale on no less than four orders. I picked this one up because I enjoyed Jughead's Time Police and Jughead: The Hunger so much.I read a bunch of Archie digests as a kid but I wasn't really sure what to expect from the modern Archie line. It was a fun read. Chip Zdarsky cra...

I love Jughead.And I could honestly stop this review right there and have this perfectly summed up in three words. And it's clear that the creative team (Chip Zdarsky and Erica Henderson, the latter being the artist of The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Volume 1: Squirrel Power and its sequels) love this burger-loving, whoopee cap wearing teen just as much as I've come too. It's ridiculous how much I've come to love Jughead Jones in such a short time, but the writing sucked me in after the visual loo...

This is my favorite Archie character. I love his laid back smarts which are on display here in this story - his story of high school. I recently saw a few episodes of Riverdale and that is all cheese, all the time, but they totally messed up Jughead and got his character completely wrong. At least he gets to shine in this story.It's a ridiculous story of a principal who is trying to turn everyone into super soldiers. Jughead figures all this out through his fun daydreams. It really is totally st...

Jughead Jones! Let me love you! All of us be like and he's Jughead's what tumblr dreams are made of. He's Archie's best friend, he's charismatic, resourceful, has literature infused (day) dreams, which are always entertaining and he likes to eat, burgers mostly. To be completely honest, Jughead's so much more interesting than Archie. His personality (and his pointy nose) is shining through every panel. I love Jughead Jones for representing the ace community. I'm praying his character on the Ri...

I have plenty of memories of reading Archie Comics Digest as a kid - mostly when I went to the cottage for the summer, I'd find stacks of those next to the Reader's Digest and dog-eared copies of Chatelaine. (It's a polite Canadian women's magazine you philistines. Look it up.)So I don't have any memory of the paranoid delusional aspect of Jughead's personality. Which is a damned shame, because this dude I get *implicitly*. Don't like classes? Check. Sleeping at all hours? Check. Video games and...

Silly almost to the point of stupidity. Which is, I guess, an appropriate enough tone for a Jughead book to take. I'm not entirely sure how I liked it. I guess I could have done without the extended fantasy segments, but the rest was kind of fun.