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Oct 23, 2016VigilanteReads rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I absolutely love how these comics introduced Kevin. The first comic in this set was really funny. Poor Veronica falls for Kevin's good looks and no one tells her that he's gay even though they all know. Jughead and Betty have their reasons of course. Loved Kevin's fast friendship with Jughead. He's treated just like any other character in the comics really. He fits into Archie's group really well. Easy conversation wit Betty and Veronica. Similar attitudes to the group. For a while, he seemed too much of a Gary Stu, though. He's an aspiring journalist.He's really smart. He's an army brat that wants to join the military so he's pretty athletic. In the later comics, you start seeing him more like a regular teen. He's awkward. He gets stage fright. He's a bit clumsy. He doesn't always know what he's doing. My favorite comics were the ones that gave us background on him. Why he started writing and why he wants to join the military. How he met his closest friends. It gave a lot of insight into the character.Also loved the running for student president arc. I liked seeing how Kevin dealt with homophobia and seeing Archie and the gang sticking up for him. Even Reggie. In the fifth comic, there is a little cliffhanger with Jerry. I need more on what's going on with him. Someone, please tell me if that happens in later comics. Not just the small bit about him we get in the sixth comic of this book. I definitely had some other issues here and there. This is straight up cheesy most of the time but I really couldn't stop smiling. I was definitely ready to see some kind of romance plot for him when I finished this set because I realized there really wasn't any of that in the first six Kevin Keller comics I read. Hoping there is a little of that in the next collection.