Life’s changing around us, but Archie’s going to make it theirs — reaching out and living by their rules.
As announced at USA Today, Archie Comics are indeed following up the success of “Afterlife with Archie” with a new, more mature “Sabrina” horror series. Written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and illustrated by Robert Hack, not too many details are given on the new series yet. It is not stated, for example, if it will be connected with “Afterlife with Archie,” and is more described as being cut from a similar cloth. However, it is stated that in the series, Sabrina will be a 16-year-old high school gal who is “figuring out who she wants to be and if she’s going to prom or not,” and the series kicks off as her secret identity as a teenage witch is discovered.
What’s exciting for fans of the character (I’m sure you, like me and most others, watched Sabrina the Teenage Witch starring Melissa Joan Hart all the time) is that the book will retain a lot of her regular supporting cast. Hilda and Zelda will be there, as well as Salem the cat. Madame Satan is teased as the main series, alongside the Enchantress, the Witches’ Council, Rosalind and more. Perhaps even “a certain redheaded teen from Riverdale,” though “not as you might expect” according to Aguirre-Sacasa.
Last, but certainly not least, Aguirre-Sacasa does not his influences, which I think bode well for the series. Fans of “Afterlife” have certainly praised it’s old school horror aesthetic, though “Sabrina” will be slightly different. For this, Aguirre-Sacasa notes things like Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist, the Little Girl who Lives Down the Lane and Suspiria as influences for more of a psychological, spiritual horror series — and that. Is. Excellent.
“Sabrina” launches in October.
