Archie vs. Predator #3

The third chapter of this delightfully unhinged Dark Horse crossover delivers one of the most memorable cover images of 2015: Archie and a wide-eyed blonde sit at a checkered diner table sharing a pink milkshake — while the Predator leans in from the left like an uninvited third wheel, blood spattering the table beside them. Cover artists Gisèle's clean, Archie-house-style linework makes the juxtaposition of small-town sweetness and extraterrestrial menace all the more wonderfully absurd. The cover's own tagline — "More Victims! More Mutilations! More Milkshakes!" — pretty much says everything you need to know about why this series earned its devoted following.