Afterlife With Archie ordered for Disney+ with a Halloween 2027 Premiere

Afterlife With Archie is getting a new life as an hourlong drama series airing on Disney+. The series is based on the unfinished series by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla. It will debut Halloween 2027 and comes nine months after the series received a script-to-series commitment.

In Afterlife With Archie, a spell backfires unleashing the undead upon Riverdale forcing Archie and his friends to fight to stay alive along with the Riverdale drama.

The series debuted in 2013 and ran for ten issues. The series was never completed with the final issue having been released in August 2016. The series was expected to run for twelve issues but Aguirre-Sacasa has said in October 2025 that that issues #11 and #12 have been written and issue #13 was being plotted. No issues have been released since then with no announcements made by Archie as far as the future of the series.

A series, Archie in Hell, has been revealed as part of Oni Press’ new initiative with Archie Comics. It’s unknown if Afterlife With Archie will ever continue or be completed or the impact of the new Oni deal regarding that. The publisher is also dealing with legal woes regarding loans and other media deals making it a very strange future for the company.