Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe Of Horrors From Archie In 2023

Chilling Adventures Presents… Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe Of Horrors is a brand new one-shot horror story coming from Archie Comics in March 2023.

Pop Tate made his first look in Pep Comics #46 from Archie again in 1944, although had a altering first title, Bob, Harold, Clark or Thomas, lastly selecting Terry Tate. Owner and supervisor of the Chok’lit Shoppe in Riverdale, an ice cream parlour and hangout spot for the forged of Archie, Pop Tate was initially portrayed as a fats, balding white man with a moustache, although that has modified over time too. His historical past can also be up within the air, typically inheriting the store from his father, different instances founding it himself. The enterprise is at all times below menace of going bust or being closed,  and in Chock’lit Shoppe of Horrors, it appears that evidently Pop makes a cope with the satan to maintain his enterprise going. And it could have additionally led to the opposite occasions of the Archie Horrorverse, such because the zombie invasion from Afterlife With Archie a decade in the past.

• Night Shift by Ryan Cady and Chris Panda
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• Die-and-Dash by Amy Chase and Federico Sabbatini

CHILLING ADVENTURES PRESENTS… POP’S CHOCK’LIT SHOPPE OF HORRORS (ONE-SHOT)
ARCHIE COMICS
Pop Tate is the glue holding Riverdale collectively, whether or not everybody realizes or not. His Chock’lit Shoppe is the beating coronary heart of the town, the place everybody can cease in for a scrumptious chunk and a few protected haven—even the worst kinds. And not simply the run-of-the-mill rapscallions who just lately broke the jukebox. When a younger Riverdale couple (Nick St. Clair and Sherry Thyme) try to dine and sprint on the common-or-garden small enterprise proprietor, they rapidly uncover the fryer grease is not the one heart-stopping factor in regards to the Chock’lit Shoppe. From tales of thriller meat to the unnatural guests that dine late at night time, this anthology tells tales in regards to the horrors that occur at Riverdale’s beloved malt store—and the way Pop Tate is on the middle of all of it, probably the most highly effective determine in Riverdale offering haven to all kinds of terrors and underhanded villainy.
Script: Amy Chase, Jordan Morris, Ryan Cady
Art: Federico Sabbatini, Liana Kangas, Chris Panda
Colors: Matt Herms
Letters: Jack Morelli
Cover: Adam Gorham
Variant Cover: Francesco Francavilla
On Sale Date: 3/22
32-page, full shade comedian
$3.99 U.S.