Comic(s) Relief: Archie vs. Predator Looks Like The Most WTF Mash-up In A Long Time
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There have been some weird damn comics crossovers throughout the years. IDW Publishing has teamed the Ghostbusters up with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, not to mention joining forces with BOOM! Studios for the recently launched Star Trek/Planet of the Apes: The Primate Directive. But for sheer WTF factor, you’d be hard pressed to find a weirder crossover concept than the upcoming Archie vs. Predator. Yes, you read that right.
Archie vs. Predator is indeed a real thing, a co-production of Dark Horse Comics and Archie Comics, AvP (no, not that one) will hit stands this April, giving some copywriter the excuse to pen the slug line, “He’s in Riverdale with a few days to kill.” Alex de Campi (Grindhouse) is writing the four-part miniseries, and you can check out the official synopsis below, followed by variant cover art by Eric Powell (The Goon) and Francesco Francavilla (Afterlife with Archie).
America’s favorite teen meets the galaxy’s fiercest hunter! Archie and friends hit Costa Rica for Spring Break, where party games and beach games are soon replaced by the Most Dangerous Game! What mysterious attraction does the gang hold for the trophy-collecting Predator, and will the kids even realize they’re in danger before it claims them all?
This Week’s New Comics
Abe Sapien #19 (Dark Horse)
In a strangely tranquil town on the Texas Gulf Coast, Abe has found a little peace. That peace is threatened by Abe’s hunch that there’s a connection between this town and a deadly threat he faced not too long ago…
Alien vs. Predator: Fire and Stone #4 (Dark Horse)
As a desperate scientist’s violent evolution reaches its deadly apex, an alien-and-predator battle royale erupts in the bowels of the doomed Geryon armada! Now, on a ship of killers—there can be only one survivor…
Battlestar Galactica: Death of Apollo #2 (Dynamite Entertainment)
An exclusive Ardian Syaf cover, only available to comic shop subscribers and limited to initial orders. In this issue, the Colonial Fleet has finally found an unexpected promise of salvation, after ten years of desperate survival. Yet is it all it seems to be? The Cylons have been quiet for a long time, but they never sleep and they never give up. Apollo and his fellow warriors embark on a dangerous mission to unlock the truth…and the consequences will change the lives of all aboard the Galactica forever.
Copperhead #5 (Image Comics)
There are no easy answers for Sheriff Clara Bronson in the conclusion of our first story arc!
Deep State #3 (Boom! Studios)
The Cosmonaut invasion is perilously close to becoming public as Control agents Harrow & Branch struggle to seal off the rural Pennsylvania town while also saving its populace from the thrall of the mysterious presence.
Doctor Who: The 10th Doctor #6 (Titan Comics)
When Gabby and the Doctor arrive by accident in No Man’s Land in July, 1916, they’re met by Corporal Jamie Colqhoun, a soldier who knows from bitter experience that there are worse things than the Jerries out in the rat-strewn trenches. Things that drift through the smoke of a thousand cannon shells, and move only when you look away. Shadows that flit over artillery-blasted field hospitals and throw their terrifying wings over the living. Statues that steal your life in an instant. The Weeping Angels. But in a conflict where the life of young men is cheap and thousands die every day, are the Angels actually offering salvation? Trapped in the midst of a flock of starving Angels, the Doctor faces his most challenging and terrifying moral dilemma yet!
The Fuse #9 (Image Comics)
‘GRIDLOCK,’ Part Three Feels like Klem and Dietrich can’t even interview someone without another two suspects popping up. But what’s this case really about? The billion-dollar future of gridlocking? Sibling rivalry? Everybody’s favorite motive, drugs? Or could it even be…SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY? Boom! Mind blown.
Guardians 3000 #4 (Marvel Comics)
On a quest to save their future, Charlie-27, Yondu, Geena and their new ally…Star-Lord…must find a doorway to the past. And that means walking into the lair of the most dangerous being in the Cosmos…the Sleeping Hunger! And what has become of Vance, Martinez and Starhawk, missing in action…presumed dead? Has A-Sentience captured them, or is there no one left alive to capture?
Lazarus #14 (Image Comics)
‘CONCLAVE,’ Part Four Forever has been sent by her father to kill her traitorous brother, Jonah. What happens next is the start of a revolution.
Star Wars #1 (Marvel)
THE GREATEST SPACE ADVENTURE OF ALL TIME RETURNS TO MARVEL! Luke Skywalker and the ragtag band of rebels fighting against the Galactic Empire are fresh off their biggest victory yet — the destruction of the massive battle station known as the Death Star. But the Empire’s not toppled yet! Join Luke along with Princess Leia, smugglers Han Solo and Chewbacca, droids C-3PO and R2-D2 and the rest of the Rebel Alliance as they strike out for freedom against the evil forces of Darth Vader and his master, the Emperor. Written by Jason Aaron (Original Sin, Thor: God of Thunder) and with art by John Cassaday (Astonishing X-Men, Uncanny Avengers), this is the Star Wars saga as only Marvel Comics could make it!
The Superannuated Man #5 (Image Comics)
One of the last remaining humans, HE, after returning from the brink of extinction, now intends to repay the evolved mutations that caused the annihilation of humanity, with a severity that borders on the atomic.
Star Trek #40 (IDW Publishing)
It’s the epic finale of ‘The Q Gambit’! The fate of the past, present and future are at stake as Kirk, Sisko and Spock face off with the mad Cardassian Dukat…and discover the secret behind Q’s machinations in their timeline! Don’t miss this climactic chapter in the STAR TREK event of 2014, produced in association with TREK writer/producer Roberto Orci!
The Twilight Zone #11 (Dynamite Entertainment)
At the end of his career and at the bottom of a bottle, Ben Chambers took on one last case: investigate the unsolved murder of an Iraq War veteran and son to corporate CEO Jason Black. What he got was a trip through the past unlike any other.. Having broken the timestream, will Detective Chambers be able to save the young man’s life, and if so, what kind of consequences might it have on the present? The answers to these questions and more lay waiting for you in The Twilight Zone.
The Walking Dead #136 (Image Comics)
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