Hamburger horror! Jughead is possessed and only spooky teen Jinx can save his soul
There's something very wrong with Jughead Jones. Riverdale High's most perpetually-hungry student is acting so strangely that his friends are starting to wonder, is Jughead possessed by a demon?!
That's the premise behind Jinx: A Cursed Life, a new one-shot written by Magdalene Visaggio and drawn by Craig Cermak. In the new comic, the latest release in the Archie Horror line, music-loving teenager Jinx Holliday and her friend Danni must step up and find a way to exorcize Jughead before it's too late.
It all sounds like devilishly good fun - and you can read some of it right now. We've got an exclusive preview of pages from the forthcoming issue in the gallery below.
Jinx is, of course, a modern reimagining of the classic Archie character L'il Jinx, originally created by Joe Edwards. The new version of the character was introduced in the Jinx: Grim Fairy Tales anthology and she appeared again last week in this year's Free Comic Book Day issue, The Cursed Library. A Cursed Life is her first full-length story and, intriguingly, it hints at a growing continuity between the various Archie Horror books - something that the publisher hasn't attempted before.
Archie Comics senior director of editorial Jamie L. Rotante said of the new book, "This time, we get more of a look at Jinx's personal life - her relationship with her father, her best friend Danni, and her being the go-to exorcist in Riverdale. OK, that last one is a newer development for our Jinx."
The publisher's official synopsis for the new issue reads: "Jinx Holliday is a firecracker and a firestarter. Destruction always follows in her wake. And sometimes weirdos stop her and talk about her "destiny." It's all combined to create quite the aura of mystery around a
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