Everyone`s favorite Archie Comics based teen crime drama, Riverdale, is back for its third season on The CW and things are not looking great for Archie and his pals. Don`t worry, they`re still as fashionable and as shirtless as ever before, but not only is Archie Andrews on trial for murder, and not only has Betty Cooper`s mom Alice joined a cult, but the town of Riverdale is slowly being invaded by a creature called the Gargoyle King. Watch out, this post contains spoilers for Riverdale`s Season 3 premiere.This week`s episode gave us our first real insight into what, exactly, the Gargoyle King is--and it`s even more buckwild than you might expect. Dilton Doiley, Riverdale`s erstwhile scoutmaster and occasional paranoid gun enthusiast, and his friend Ben have, apparently, started playing a Dungeons and Dragons flavored roleplaying game over the summer--a game that, somehow, has summoned the Gargoyle King into their world. Maybe.It`s unclear whether or not the Gargoyle King is actually some sort of supernatural monster that has been summoned to Riverdale by Dilton and Ben`s game, or if it`s just (yet another) opportunistic serial killer carving a path through the countryside. Honestly, at this point, either option seems pretty absurd--and equally likely. Either magic and monsters are both real, or Riverdale is the single most unlucky town on Earth, so does it really matter?That question is exactly the point of this season, explained Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa at this year`s New York Comic Con. `Just how supernatural is the Gargoyle King? That`s the big question.` Aguirre-Sacasa teased, `He`s a little bit like the Slender Man--we`re taking these crazy things, but we`re grounding them with real-life touchstones.`The Slender Man seems to be an apt comparison after we see Dilton`s panic in this episode. `Ben and I, we thought it was just a game,` he frantically explained to Jughead, `The Gargoyle King.` But it wasn`t a game, apparently--or, at least, it wasn`t the game D ...
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