Dark Horse Comics and Archie Comics are coming together next spring to give us the most glorious crossover we never knew we wanted “Archie Meets Predator.” After the success of Afterlife with Archie, and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina it seems that Archie’s chief Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is obsessed with bringing death to Archie and his friends.
USA Today broke the story of all places, and despite the odd choice the interview with series writer Alex De Campi begs to be read. She is a master of rowdy sexy teen driven horror-comedy as evidenced by her work in Grindhouse: Doors Open At Midnight series from Dark Horse, which I urge you to check out if you haven’t yet. Her style is incredibly confident and consistently reliable in the cheesy dialogue and bad decisions fueled by hormones department.
So Predator takes aim on Archie and the Riverdale gang after Jughead wins a trip to Costa Rica. The Predator slowly hunts the group first taking Betty in his sights, and afterwards follows everyone back to Riverdale. De Campi said everyone on either side of the two publishers has been more than excited to unleash a flurry of death, and pacing isn’t going to be concerned with anything other than fun. She’s taking everything she’s learned on Grindhouse and applying it to killing Archie’s friends. It’s not going to be paced anything like Afterlife, and Sabrina.
Even Afterlife with Archie artist Francesco Francavilla joined in on the fun:
🙂 RT @archiecomics: Check out this amazing promo image for ARCHIE MEETS PREDATOR by @f_francavilla! @DarkHorseComics pic.twitter.com/pzUWioQ2sA
— FrankenVillainstein (@f_francavilla) October 10, 2014
Spring 2015, can’t come soon enough. I can’t wait to see how De Campi and legendary Archie Comics artist Fernando Ruiz dipose of both the Predator, and Jughead, mostly Jughead, I really want to see his severed spine in the Predator’s grasp. Please give it to me.
More on this incredible crossover as it develops…