He’sfighting rage on Riverdale . He’sturning into a werewolfin the strip . Sometimes , he ’s just use up his way through Pop ’s fare time and time again . Jughead ’s go a barbaric life wherever you get your Archie mending these day , but his novel serial is his unearthly one yet , because Jughead ’s die back to the future . And the past times . And everywhere , really ! io9 has your undivided spirit .
A resurgence of the short - lived ‘ ninety comic serial of the same name , Jughead : Time Police ’s rejoinder mark Archie Comics ’ latest foray into putting its beloved characters through their genre paces . write by Iceman scribe Sina Grace and with art from Archie basic Derek Charm , the new miniseries — which , like several of Archie Comics’past music genre experimentation , like Jughead : The Hunger , has the chance to flesh out to a full on-going if reader demand is there — sees Jughead adjudicate that , after being banned from the Riverdale annual Bake - Off contest for a pie gone lopsided , the only way to solve his problem is to … well , use time travel to unsex his mistake .
of course .
Jughead’s a Time Lord now, I’m pretty sure.Image: Derek Charm, Matt Herms, and Jack Morelli (Archie Comics)
every bit raw , of course , is that Jughead Jones is not precisely the sorting of person you ’d expect to pass with flying colors the delicate equalizer modify the timeline requires , so when he muck it up , he finds himself lasso into a war to preclude time itself from being torn aside . Thank god it ’s all in the name of something worth it , like delicious pie .
To detect out more , we latterly speak to Grace and Charm about what to wait from Jughead ’s sci - fi adventure — suss out out our chat below , as well as an exclusive stoolpigeon peek at the first issue , making its debut here on io9 !
io9 : Why was now the right time to impart an idea like Time Police back ?
The full cover for Jughead: Time Police #1.Image: Derek Charm, Matt Herms, and Jack Morelli (Archie Comics)
Sina Grace : Ever since Cher ’s regenerate popularity with her ABBA cover record album , everyone ’s had “ If I Could change state Back Time ” on their Spotify play list . In all seriousness….wait , no , we ’re tattle about Jughead — I do n’t wanna be serious . I foresaw how frustrated everyone would be with the wayGame of Thrones is endingand understood how the notion of wanting to change the past would be on the minds of countless meg .
Derek Charm : We ’d been talk about doing something new with Jughead since his premature series ended , but I do n’t suppose anyone really wanted to do more of the same . I ’m kind of beaming it took as long as it did because it ’s squeamish fare at these characters and office with fresh eyes again .
io9 : Tell us a short about what fans can await from the miniseries .
Derek Charm’s early designs for Time Police.Image: Derek Charm (Archie Comics)
grace of God : It ’s good to say that fan can anticipate a pretty hyper and fun romp through space - clip . We ’ve discover some covers to the later issues in the arc , so I believe I ’m fine to indicate that we may be learn Jughead from other timeline … that should make thing quite interesting ! There ’ll be a visit to the future , coolheaded music references , awesome Hot Dog asides , Time thief , Thought Bubbles , and so much more !
io9 : come into this new iteration of it , what did you want to keep from the original ‘ 90s series in this newfangled take ?
goodwill : The two big thing I wanted to preserve from the pilot was showcasing Time Police Deputy January McAndrews as an awful co - pilot to the story and spending a little more time in the 29th century . The ‘ 90s plotlines were very linear , which was fun . But in 2019 you got ta complicate things on an epic level , and my take whole provides space for , uhh — complications .
good luck charm : I have the soft-cover book of the ‘ XC serial sit down on my desk at all time and I pull from it often , just seeing what I can reference or reinterpret visually .
io9 : Sina , this is your first clock time getting into the world of Archie as a writer — what ’s it been like explore a character like Jughead , especially through such an out - there lens of the eye with Time Police ’s sci - fi frame ?
io9 : And Derek , coming off your past run on the Jughead book , what was your approach to plan his looks in this series ? What did you want to evolve about your take on Jughead ?
Charm : I really took this as an opportunity to rethink and redesign each of the characters . When I did the first Jughead series , it was just pre - Riverdale , and the estimate of non - classic edition of these characters was fairly raw . Now , after doing 10 issues of Jughead and after seeing all these alternate rendition , it ’s really release to go through and rethink each character and location to what well serve the level . I also just did n’t want to do the same thing again , and as we ’ll see in this chronicle , other versions of these character will be kill up so it made horse sense to try something different .
io9 : clip locomotion as a vanity lends , naturally , to being able to visit Archie Comics ’ history as a publisher . For both of you , what was challenging to try and evoke a specific step or style of an geological era you call back to in Jughead ’s novel adventures ?
Grace : Speaking only for myself , I do n’t guess I picture any challenges with the tone or stylus … only insofar as this entire project has been like , “ how do we take this thing and make it braggart , better , stronger , faster ? ” in the most stimulating way potential . What ended up take place for me was recognise how the self-love could tap into some Archie deep - dives instead of , “ Hey , what if Jughead was in Medieval Times ! ? Are n’t we ker - razy ! ? ” Where we go is kind of a closed book , so I ’ll stop there .
io9 : Sci - Fi , horror , piece of life , supernatural — what is it you cogitate about the Riverdale kids that has made them so perfectly malleable to all these genres over the years ?
Grace : The Riverdale kids have the perfect chemistry chart . The way that the chemical group of them interact and deal out with conflict is fundamentally an eternal well for fun and exciting taradiddle . Like , if they were just six water sign , the book would be boring in any writing style because all they ’d do is go with the flow and fit with each other .
Charm : Yeah , I finger like they ’re so iconic and Graeco-Roman you could candidly drop them into any form of story and their character would stay unchanged despite whatever weird situation they ascertain themselves in .
The first issue of Jughead : Time Police ( of five in all ) hits ledge next month , on June 12 .
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