Things just got considerably more strange in Riverdale with Archie Meets Predator coming from Archie Comics...
Well, it looks like Archie Meets The Punisher is no longer the strangest crossover to ever happen in Riverdale.
Yes friends, Archie Meets Predatoris happening this spring, and as lovers of when Archie gets weird (just check out Al Hartley's weird fundamentalist comics featuring the characters, or any of the crazy 1970s adventure stories in Life with Archie, Archie at Riverdale High, That Wilkin Boy, and Josie and the Pussycats and you will be too), we couldn't be happier about this development. The four-issue miniseries will be a company crossover with Dark Horse Comics, which currently holds the Predator license. Scripting will be Alex de Campi (of IDW's Smoke fame) and providing art will be Archie's underrated stalwart Fernando Ruiz.
According to USA Today, who broke the story, the gang encounter the Predator in Costa Rica "after Jughead wins a prize from a lucky bag of chips." Later, the monster makes its way back to Riverdale after it stows away in Veronica's trunks of travel clothes. Glorious. In the USA Today piece, de Campi describes her approach to the characters thusly:
My versions of the characters will really go back to the mid-1940s Archie stories, where Betty and Veronica had a little more edge to them. There's a wonderful Bob Montana/Joe Kubert sequence from 1948 that I love where Veronica is asking Betty if she has a winter sport, and Betty says, "No, only Archie," with this look in her eyes like "I am all alone, with my obsession."
My Veronica is the slightly thoughtless socialite who wants Archie because he is the one thing she can't buy, while Betty is a somewhat fragile obsessive who believes Archie is hers and only hers because they grew up together.
We use pretty much all the Archie cast in this story, though. The Blossoms play an important part, and in total 10 kids go on the holiday to Costa Rica. Only Dilton and Ethel stay home, and they play big parts in the latter half of the story, as does Sabrina briefly.
Okay, this raises so many questions: Will Big Moose wind up taking on the Predator in a Riverdale street fight? Will it and Jughead bond over their shared love of hamburgers? Will the Predator fall for the equally homely Big Ethel? We will just have to wait until the spring to find out. Oh yes please.
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