Josie and the Pussycats (Volume 1) (Archie Comics)
Marguerite Bennett & Cameron Deordio (w) Audrey Mok (w)
Having recently watched the Josie & The Pussycats movie, being mildly amused and a fan of the music I ordered this tome from Amazon to see what I had missed in the great Archie relaunch. This volume is a complete re-imagining of how the girls came together and over the five wacky issues does develop the characters in their own right.
I hesitate to call this a"girls comic" though that is probably the target audience it's certainly a far cry from the clean cut Riverdale adventures of old. There's booze, sex, crime even shock horror drug references in this slightly more late teens version of the comic.
Melody remains her delightfully kookie self though!
It lasted just 9 issues reprinted into two volumes though it is unlikely to be the end of the girls adventures anytime soon. With Archie utilising their properties in a number of quite imaginative ways I'm sure we'll see the girls again sometime soon.
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