This is a f**kin’ outrage! As a fan of the series as a child, I really resent people turning a fun comic strip character into a politically correct martyr.
On another related thread, a Freeper predicted in jest that this would happen. I had no idea he would be correct.
This is stupid and disgusting.
But to reiterate, he’s being killed off in a spin-off comic set in possible alternate futures or something like that, called “Life with Archie” (which is ending production).
The character will live on in the regular comic, which will still get made.
Good thing I never got into comic books (beyond what they put in the papers, such as Garfield, which has always remained blissfully politics-free).