Archie & Friends #151

Part two of "Return to the Comic Shop" arrives in this 2011 Archie & Friends issue, and the cover — penciled by Fernando Ruiz and inked by Rich Koslowski — is a pure celebration of comic-shop culture. Archie and a young friend sit at a counter, practically overwhelmed as a vivid crowd of classic cartoon and comics characters — a magician, a jolly Santa-suited figure, a duck, an elderly gentleman, animated animals, and many more — press in around them in a burst of radiating color. It's a warm, wonderfully chaotic tribute to the joy of discovering characters from across the ages, all packed into one inviting image.