Archie: The Married Life Book 3 (The Married Life Series)
In this third go-round of the dueling “Archie Marries Veronica” and “Archie Marries Betty” story lines, most of the pages are sacrificed to wrapping up the confusing sci-fi multiverse plot starring Dilton Doiley, an arduous task rescued at the last moment by a clever, semirational explanation of the last 70-plus years of Archie Comics. Elsewhere the soap opera remains awesome: Veronica serves Arch with divorce papers, Reggie and Betty sign up for a reality show, Kevin returns from war in the Middle East, and someone in the gang is pregnant. Often the differences between both worlds are too slight, but this is still the best Archie experiment ever. Grades 9-12. --Daniel Kraus