Archie vs. Predator #1

What a wonderfully unhinged mashup: Archie, Veronica, Betty, Jughead, and Reggie are all smiles in their tropical beach attire, completely oblivious to the massive, mandible-baring Predator looming over them from the jungle shadows. The cover tagline — "Beach games… Party games… The Most Dangerous Game!" — sets the tone perfectly for this 2015 Dark Horse crossover, with pencils and inks by Fernando Ruiz and Rich Koslowski delivering the Riverdale gang's bright, sunny style right up against something genuinely terrifying. It's the first chapter of a four-issue series that promises to take Archie's wholesome world somewhere very, very dark.