Published 2017 via Archie Comics
★★★
And into volume 4 we go! This picks off right about where volume 3 left off, with the crush of the third volume actually going somewhere (I wasn't sure it would). I'm sure there were similar subplots in the original comics, but if there were they never went very far. We also get a bit more from the Blossoms, though theirs seems to be a long-haul sub-plot (info drabbled out across volumes).
But if the Blossoms were the big bads (well, Cheryl, anyway) of the previous volume, it's Reggie this time. He hasn't had much role in the series so far, but...here he is, leering at girls and pushing Archie's buttons until Archie snaps. And that snapping leads to one of the stupidest decisions of the series...and then some other equally stupid decisions. (Spoiler: If you're trying to stop an illegal car race, the thing to do is not to drive headfirst into it.) Archie gets off scot-free, of course, because the cops know Reggie as a troublemaker, and...honestly, that's sort of a problem, no? Oh, very consistent with the Archie comics of old, but it's very much a "reputation is all that counts" thing. And of course the volume ends on a cliffhanger...which I suspect will not last more than midway through volume 5, but hey! Not quite there yet.
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