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Josie and the Pussycats Rock Out with Fiona Staples
By Andy Khouri
It doesn&rsquo;t go on sale until October, but&nbsp;Life With Archie&nbsp;#24&nbsp;comes with a variant cover so cool that we had to show it to you at once. Illustrated by the great&nbsp;Fiona Staples&nbsp;(Saga), we see here the introduction of Archie Comics&rsquo; iconic girl group&nbsp;Josie and the Pussycats&nbsp;into the ceaselessly surprising possible-future reality in which&nbsp;Life With Archie&nbsp;takes place, which has included events such as Archie marrying both Betty and&nbsp;Veronica&nbsp;in separate timelines (constituting an Archie Comics multiverse), the marriage of&nbsp;U.S. soldier Kevin Keller to a male partner, and&nbsp;Cheryl Blossom suffering from breast cancer. Staples&rsquo; punkier Pussycats join Francesco Francavilla&rsquo;s&nbsp;Riverdale Zombies&nbsp;and&nbsp;KISS crossovers&nbsp;as some of Archie Comics&rsquo; more memorable covers in recent years, which have helped make these artifacts of Americana comics relevant not just to today&rsquo;s younger readers, but really fun for an older generation who&rsquo;d once enjoyed them as children.Staples provided some commentary for this image on&nbsp;her blog, writing, &ldquo;This storyline take place about ten years into the future, so I did a grown-up version of the band! It was inspired in part by the 2001 Pussycats movie, and Alison Mosshart from The Kills, who wears a lot of animal print.&rdquo;Incidentally, ComicsAlliance Senior Writer Chris Sims remarked during the preparation of this post that the film Staples referenced, 2001&rsquo;s Josie and the Pussycats, is the &ldquo;best comic book film of all time.&rdquo;[Via Robot 6]