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He’s the sort of guy who is always on the edge of graduating high school, he’s got a case of “senior-itis” that’s been stretched out for 70 years. “Archie” has that kind of feeling when he’s at his best.

Why all of this energy and excitement about the Jumbo Comics Digest character with one foot firmly planted in the 60s and another in the 40s? Why is Archie cool? Why was I willing – excited even – to pick up a copy of this book? Maybe it’s because it is finally spring, and that means driving around with the windows down and the music playing. Archie has been fighting zombies and demons and even The Predator, who touched down in town to massacre the kids of Riverdale High, in recent years. Mark Waid, Sina Grace, Fiona Staples and big-name comic book creators relaunched “Archie” in 2015, bringing the flagship title for the company to a place somewhere between the gritty “Riverdale” and the classic series.

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So what gives? TV series “Riverdale” and “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” are currently airing on The CW and Netflix, respectively, and a “Katy Keene” show is headed to the air next season, as well. Stories are either written in a desperate attempt to remain relevant (see the story in which he spread “Rapping,” the cool new trend for teens to all of Riverdale High) or with punchlines that commonly revolve around gaggles of women mooning over Archie. Maybe I’ve been absorbing too much of the background noise from the new Archie Comics multimedia empire of the last few years, but this Archie is, well, lame. I found an Archie who is not exactly who I remembered.

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I slipped a copy of “Archie Jumbo Comics #296” into my bag and cracked it open between classes. “Archie Digests” sits right there, behind the register with the rest, and this week, I was the one excited to see it. Oftentimes, when I’m standing in line at a Publix, I wonder who reads soap opera recaps or who is excited to see the latest “Sudoku Recipes for Cat Owners” specialty publication. And in my time, I’ve read quite a few “Archie Digests” off the supermarket rack. I’ve read through paperback collections of “Beetle Bailey,” “Charlie Brown” and “Hagar the Horrible.” I devoured Dave Berg and Don Martin strips collected into poorly-bound digest-size “Mad Magazine” paperbacks that I found haphazardly tossed in the stacks at used bookstores. I was the kind of kid who read whatever comic book I could get my hands on.