ARCHIE is a high school drama series set in the fictional town of Riverdale, USA. Volume One recounts the story of a town so full of pep its hard to imagine it could be anything but perfect. Riverdale High excels in both academics and sports and Pop’s Chock Lit Shoppe still offers half-price milkshakes in the afternoons. But the students of Riverdale High know that life in Riverdale isn't always a sunny dream; it's a complicated, angsty mess of social pressures, sex, drugs, alcohol, deceit, love, and identity.