If you were to ask a 12 year old version of myself (a huge Archie fan!) there will be gore and horror in my beloved Archie Comic Books. My reaction would be a fixture of incomprehension, disbelief and a scoff at the idea! 30+ years later, here we are with Archie being the standard of modern Horror Comics!
Get ready for Valentines Day with Betty: The Final Girl #1. Before you just buy the book for some juicy lovey dovey store about Betty Cooper becoming Archie’s one true love – how wrong you are! This book is a horror book, set on Valentine’s Day. Be warned, dear readers.
This is a one-shot anthology book of other-world stories involving our favourite Archie characters from Betty, Veronica, Josie & The Pussycats and more.
The stories are carefully intertwined seamlessly due to writers Micol Ostow, Casey Gilly and Sam Maggs who do an incredible job of taking the reader on a horror-bound journey. Each story is self contained with its own premise yet connected. The clean and cohesive art of Laura Braga, Carola Borelli and Natalie Nardozza (with vibrant color work by Ellie Wright and Matt Hermes) do justice in creating the scenes the writers piece together. The consistency of one letterer Jack Morelli keeps all the stories to assist in keeping the pieces together and making this book a very easy read.
The level of horror and gore isn’t over the top nor is it stomach churning, there were moments of minor shock or gasps and we move onto the next story which were the high points of Betty: The Last Girl.
Fans of Marvel’s What if? comics from the 1970s-1980s would truly appreciate this pretty horror piece here. The gold standard of shock horror, thanks Archie Comics. Do yourself a favour & check this out!
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Betty: The Final Girl features writing from Micol Ostow, Casey Gilly and Sam Maggs, art by Laura Braga, Natalie Nardozza and Carola Borell, colors by Archie mainstay Matt Herms and letters by the equally prolific Jack Morelli, plus main and alternate covers by Braga and Megan Hutchison.