“He could have saved Betty. He could have saved Veronica. We get that, but metaphorically, by saving Kevin, a new Riverdale is born,” Archie Comics co-CEO Jon Goldwater told Mashable .
We've known since April that after 75 years, Archie Andrews would die.
And the comic world won't be quite the same without him.
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We didn't know he would die for his best friend, Kevin Keller.
This is the angriest Archie we've ever seen.
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Kevin Keller's character was introduced in 2010 in the Archie spinoff "Veronica."
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Since then, Kevin's character went on to have his own 4-part miniseries, and eventually got married.
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