Robert Aguirre-Sacasa said that he and Jason Moore tried for a month to make this story work, but they eventually decided this wasn’t something with wanted to work on.
You probably think it can’t get any weirder than time travel and portals to another dimension, but it does.
This Warner Bros executive than gave his pick for who should play Archie: Louis C.K. So now the main protagonist has gone from an optimistic teenager to a middle-aged comedian.
Fortunately for Aguirre-Sacasa, he was approached a year later to work on a television series more in line with what he originally envisioned, which lacks any temporal-manipulating or parallel universe elements.