Life with Archie #22

Life with Archie #22 takes the mature, serialized storytelling of Riverdale in a gripping direction, with the cover boldly announcing "Tragedy Strikes Kevin Keller." The cover art — signed by Pat Kennedy and Tim Lipp — depicts a tense confrontation: a figure wielding a gun faces off against two people mid-struggle, while a wide-eyed Kevin Keller looms large in the foreground, and a shocked Archie and a blonde companion look on in alarm. It's a striking, dramatic composition that signals this 2012 all-new-stories issue is willing to go to genuinely intense places.