 Oh my gosh. Salem walked the red carpet. That is the most adorable, I mean, Sabrina, the teenage witch, chilling adventures. Let's do this. Hey everybody, welcome to another exciting episode. Another spooktastic edition here of A Weakening Geekdom. I am your host, German Amenendez, and today we're going to be talking about chilling adventures of Sabrina. Now, in honor of the Netflix series, I decided to finally read this book, this cool, dramatic, serious interpretation of Sabrina. Now, I'm not a huge fan of the Archie World, if you will. Overall, it's not really my thing. I never really cared for it, but I do like the character of Sabrina, and I do remember the live-action series, and I do remember, I think, cartoons and the old comic book strips or whatever, and they were always pretty fun. So I was very interested in reading a much more serious, dramatic interpretation or reinterpretation, I guess, of this character. Now, everybody's in there from Hilda, Zelda, Salem, and some new characters as well that expand the mythology or the world of Sabrina's spellmen with them living in Greendale and all that stuff. The basic plot, you don't have to worry. It's very reader friendly. You get an introduction to Sabrina's dad, Edward, and he broke witch law. The covenant of witches or whatever is very upset that he married a mortal. They're not supposed to do that. They're not supposed to mingle that way, and Sabrina's mom wants to take the infant with her and raise her normally, but Edward is opposed to that because she has to be a witch and all that funky jazz, and eventually he succeeds. They put the mom away, and the character of Edward takes the daughter, and his sisters, Zelda, and Hilda end up raising Sabrina through the 50s. I believe the story began in 1951, and then the main focus of it is in the 60s when Sabrina's about to turn 16. Now, when witches, and I guess warlocks as well, turns of age 16 or 15 or whatever, they go through a ritual which I guess prolongs their life, and they get accepted into witchdom. I don't know. I don't make the rules, but they have two options. You can go ahead and do the ritual, or you can disregard it and continue your way into or with humanity, but eventually your powers weaken to the point where you lose everything and forget everything, and you die like a regular human being. Now, Sabrina being a half-breed, she has to make this decision. Our family, specifically her aunts, are pushing for her to do the ritual and embrace her powers in witch culture. I, something, and along the way we do get to see some new characters. We get to see her cousin show up and they're living with the spellmen in Greendale. We get to see Salem, which is one of my favorite characters in this franchise, and we get to see an actual villain for Sabrina. The character is Madame Satan, one of the creepiest villains. You see her the back cover right there because she's got baby skull demon thingies for eyes, and she's sort of like this witch slash succubus, and I won't spoil it, but she's after the spellmen for a very specific reason that is born out of hatred, jealousy, and love, because those are the perfect ingredients to create a villain. Along the way, Sabrina falls in love and you have this moral dilemma of how to keep a normal social life in school, while also venturing into the occult craziness. It's pretty interesting. It's a more dramatic, grounded, serious take on the character. There are jokes. There are, there is a little bit of humor sprinkled throughout, but for the most part is a very, it is a very character heavy piece on Sabrina and the trials and tribulations of a famous character dealing with growing up and witchdom. If that appeals to you, then this book is for you. Now the art is a little bit of a controversy. Some people like it, other people hate it, other people are sort of in between. That's where I fit in. I'm in between the two sides, like the art is done by Robert Hack. Same with Afterlife with Archie, that Francisco Francavia does the whole thing. Robert Hack is involved with the whole creative artistic side of things, I should say. He draws and colors and everything in between. And the art for the most part, I do like it, but on some panels, on some occasions, like you'll get like a fully detailed rendering of a character. And then the following, or a couple boxes later, you get some wacky dirt faces that I can't really explain how they got through to the final product of the book I'm reading right here. But I guess they didn't really mind, but it's such a contrast. It's so heavy that I'm sitting there like, wow okay, like you get the art, I don't know if you can see it, can be very inconsistent. Like for example up here, look at Serena right there, and then look at her down below. She's much more refined and detailed. By the way, here's a creepy ass look at Madame Satan. I'm not joking around man, this stuff gets wild and heavy pretty quickly. You get stuff like this. The art here is really cool. I love like the pastel colors and the, it looks like I'm reading a vintage story, like it came out of 1962. But then all of a sudden probably spoiling it. But like, check this thing out. Pretty freaky. And then you get, boom, derpy Madame Satan right there looking all kinds of loopy. I don't know if it's focusing or not, but you get to picture stuff like that that makes it a little bit inconsistent in my honest opinion. This is actually one of my favorite covers for chapter three. I love this issue. Look at Serena right there. Just different faces overall, like subtle hints up between the same issue that I go like, really okay, QC issues much. But regardless, it's a really pretty book to look at. I love the sketchiness of it and how old it looks. We like the supernatural. If you want a different adaptation for a character you grew up with, I think you may or may not like it. I specifically don't really mind that much and thought this was a pretty cool take on Serena Spellman and her wonderful cast of characters. Now there are cameos from Riverdale, which is pretty interesting. This is, and by the way, I didn't say anything at the beginning of the video, but this book is not really related to Afterlife with Archie. There are subtle Easter eggs here and there, but for the most part this is in the 60s and Afterlife with Archie is a different interpretation in the 2014-15 something like that. So yeah, they're totally different and just just a blaster read, man. If you're looking for something spooky to read that's not too scary or freaky and just the right amount of cool-ish, then yeah, I think Chilling Adventures of Serena might be that book for you guys. Also, back section features variant covers. We also see an expose on Madame Satan, the villain for this first book, or for the series actually, as well as the reprint of her first appearance way back in, I believe it was 1941. There we go, 1941 Pep Comics number 16. That's a long ass time ago. There is a lot of over expose and narration that I wasn't too fond of. I don't know, I believe that is Roberto's writing style because he does that on occasions with Afterlife with Archie and the TV shows that he's written. I do believe he writes Riverdale and all that stuff. So at times it got a little under my skin. I didn't need to read so much explanation for what the characters were doing and the art is sketchy and inconsistent and that might deter you from actually enjoying the full experience or whatever, but overall it's really fun and really spooky and a fantastic reimagining of a beloved character. I cannot wait to finish this series in like 100 years from now because this was released a long ass time ago. The series is on an infinite hiatus that will never ever end. I don't know, maybe if this video gains some traction they'll be like, hey we should put out more comics so we can collect it in trade paperbacks. I don't know. Guys, what do you think about Chilling Adventures of Serena and if you are gonna watch the Netflix series, it's pretty much based on this comic book. Let me know down below what you thought of the Netflix series when it debuts. So yeah, follow me on your favorite social media platform, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, all that jazz. Like, comment, subscribe, and follow me here. How do we can geek them on YouTube? Thank you so much. I will catch all of you at a later time. Bye!