Archie Comics Digest #168

Archie Digest Magazine #168 delivers a perfectly relatable scene straight from 2000: a startled Archie jolting awake with oversized headphones clamped to his ears, alarm clocks blaring "BRING!" all around him, while his amused parents look on from the doorway. The speech bubble tells us the gadget-as-alarm contraption is working exactly as intended — not a single morning overslept. Stan Goldberg's pencils and Henry Scarpelli's inks bring the humor to life with the warm, expressive energy that makes this digest series such a dependable good time.