Betty and Veronica #261

Betty grips a wooden stake while cautiously facing down a grinning, fanged Veronica — reimagined here as "Vampironica" — against a moonlit, shadowy backdrop crowded with sinister silhouettes, as a ghost-like Archie floats nearby looking thoroughly unnerved. Dan Parent's cover sets up this 2012 horror-comedy clash with the tagline "She Lurks! She Creeps! She Shops!" — perfectly capturing Veronica's particular brand of supernatural menace. It's a fun, spooky spin on Riverdale's favorite rivalry that fans of both classic Archie humor and monster-movie parody will find hard to resist.