Ripped from the Headlines: Comics Get Topical

As stalwart Archie fans, we rather liked that the biggest problems encountered by the youth of Riverdale involved things like rampant gossip, stray kittens, and the vexing vanity of Reggie Mantle. Today’s comics are increasingly going the Law & Order route, with ripped-from-the-headlines plots and themes. Case in point: Marvel Comics‘ Secret Invasion, premiering tomorrow at the New York Comic Con, in which “an alien race called the Skrulls comes to claim Earth as its holy land after their home planet is rendered uninhabitable in a fashion foretold by their religious scriptures,” according to Brian Niemietz writing in today’s