Here is what I liked most about "Welcome to Mirrordale":
* Jonesy and the Jugheads! Check out this great alternate reality garage band! The Jugheads consists of Jonesy, Beronica, Vetty, and Kellso. And their signature song is "Spice, Spice!" I really love the Jugheads! They're a great band visually. Maybe after the Archies get finished with their upcoming World Tour, they should launch their first interdimensional Worlds Tour and declare a battle of the bands against the Jugheads!
* Andrew Archies! Andrew Archies is Archie's Mirrordale doppelganger and he's the reason Archie finds himself sucked into Mirrordale. Basically, he's sick of being the unpopular kid and wants to take over Archie's dream-life. Archie ultimately has to defeat Andrew before he can return to his own life. That said, it's not all that certain that we haven't seen the last of Andrew Archies by the end of this story!
* Archina! One of my favorite stories from the past year was the gender-switching Reversedale story where Sabrina's cat Salem magically swaps everyone's genders. I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for a fantasy ARCHINA & FRIENDS comic book series to get launched by Archie Comics -- though I'm not holding my breath! We don't see the return of Reversedale in this issue, but Archina makes a brief cameo. Don't blink or you might miss it!
Next issue imagine imagines the pagan predicaments of the Mighty Thor -- if he was Archie!