Veronica #104

Veronica Lodge is living her best waterfront life on this October 2000 cover, lounging aboard a well-appointed yacht complete with a mini-fridge and a uniformed captain at the helm — while Betty Cooper stands at the deck's edge in her swimsuit, declaring she'd take a simple jet ski over all this luxury any day. Dan DeCarlo's pencils and Henry Scarpelli's inks give the sun-drenched scene that warm, breezy charm the series does so well, with the contrast between Veronica's effortless opulence and Betty's down-to-earth attitude perfectly captured in a single speech bubble. A fun, lighthearted snapshot of Riverdale's favorite rivalry that makes it easy to see why this title kept readers coming back.