I never remember seeing it on the stands, but it seems like it should have happened a long time ago. I never remember hearing anything about it, either. I want a copy!
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It was set for issue 635, which is supposed to hit this month. Archie tends to ship in the last week of the month, so look for it in a couple weeks!
Aaaand I read it this week. I thought it was pretty good! Nothing amazing or surprising, but I love that Archie at least tackled the issue. And I also love that my LCS had one last edition with the Jill Thompson cover. I know I said somewhere that it will go well with my issues of Archie Meets Kiss, all with the Francesco Francavilla covers. My plan is to frame and hang them in my comics/karate room.
I managed to pick up the Thompson cover, too! I liked this issue quite a bit.. and that cover is amazing.
I got it this week. I was a little disappointed. I know I shouldn't expect a deep analysis of the issues behind such a thing as the Occupy movement in an Archie comic, but I was disappointed anyway that I didn't get one. And there was something odd about the art; it seemed like it was drawn by a manga artist being forced to render in the Archie house style.
They certainly tried hard to be even-handed, which didn't help.
I thought the art seemed very similar to the Norm Breyfogle art on Life With Archie.
Not to me it didn't. Norm Breyfogle found an effective way to bend his style to the Archie house style to create, if you will, a "Life With Archie" house style; he isn't drawing the book any more but the two teams of artists who are do look very similar to what he was doing.
This artist in the "Occupy Archie" story, was NOT a bad artist -- I'm not saying that. I'm saying that it looked unnatural.
...The cover that I saw/any other samples looked rather like the " New Look " quasi-realistic drawing style and situations stories that Archie was pushing a couple years back , appearing as serials of 100 pages or so in 4 issues of a digest and then in TPBs , I think all of them were book'd , Was the ( If you know what I am referring to at all !!!!!!!!!!! hehehe) " OC " story drawn in that style ?????
I'm not sure what else the artist, Gisele, has done, but I liked her work a lot. It took me a few pages of shock that I wasn't looking at Dan Decarlo work -- every Archie I read, I have to reacclimate myself to that sad fact -- but she actually takes on angles and gestures that are unusual for an Archie comic.
EKDJ, I think you were looking at the Jill Thompson variant cover. The rest of the book isn't like that. It's a clean-line style, extrapolated from Archie's classic look.
http://www.giselelagace.com/
She's a Canadian comic artist and, yeah, I really enjoyed her artwork in this issue, too. She's back, I believe, for the gender-swap storyline.