Spotify now affords movement comics starring Archie

Spotify has been experimenting with incorporating non-musical codecs during the last couple of years, together with movies and multimedia podcasts. Subsequent up: Movement comics primarily based on new Archie tales.

For these of you who haven’t been holding observe of the comics incarnations of Archie and his buddies, the title was lately rebooted by author Mark Waid (Kingdom Come) and artist Fiona Staples (Saga). Whereas I used to be initially skeptical about the necessity to mess with the characters’ traditional designs, I discovered the primary assortment to be a superbly pleasing mixture of stripling comedy and cleaning soap opera.

Now, as introduced in Nerdist, the primary six points have been reworked by digital comics startup Madefire with music and voice appearing.

It’s nonetheless a comic book e-book, and you may nonetheless see Staples’ beautiful artwork, nevertheless it’s a narrative that you just hit a “play” button to expertise, quite than turning any pages. (Madefire and its CEO Ben Wolstenholme desire the time period “movement books” to differentiate the format from the tacky movement comics of the previous, however I think the excellence is misplaced on most readers.)

You will discover them on Spotify as Highlight: Archie — The New Riverdale.

Archie Comics CEO Jon Goldwater instructed Nerdist that “Archie has all the time been about looking for new methods to get comics to followers and readers,” and mentioned that working with Spotify was “an ideal match.”