The Archie gang has always had their issues, but now, they’ll battle the undead on Disney+. The streamer has just given a script-to-series commitment to Afterlife With Archie , a one-hour drama series based on the comic books by writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and artist Francesco Francavilla.

Deadline broke the news, which was heavily rumored earlier this summer. The comic, which debuted in 2013, reimagines the town of Riverdale as the heart of a zombie apocalypse. So, you get all the classic Riverdale characters—Archie, Veronica, Betty, Jughead—as you know them, but they have to kill zombies. Back when it was released , we called it “more Walking Dead than Scooby Doo , but without Walking Dead ‘s gruesome need to constantly outdo its own violence.” Which is what gives it

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