Archie Comics has introduced the most recent entry in their profitable horror line. Chilling Adventures Presents…Betty: The Final Girl is a new anthology one-shot that includes a trio of tales that think about Betty Cooper because the lone survivor of a slasher story. The three terrifying embrace “Rosemary’s Babysitter” by Micol Ostow & Laura Braga, “Be Mine or Die” by Casey Gilly & Natalie Nardozza, and “Melody’s Next” by Sam Maggs & Carola Borelli. Matt Herms and Jack Morelli coloration and letter the difficulty, respectively.
Here’s how Archie describes Chilling Adventures Presents Presents…Betty: The Final Girl:
Veronica has invited Betty to her luxurious mountaintop chalet for a cozy weekend of snowboarding. But their ladies weekend is interrupted when Archie exhibits up and whisks Veronica off on their very own snowy romantic journey. What may go incorrect at a fancy distant cabin in the mountains all by herself? Betty’s thoughts races and she will be able to’t inform reality from fiction as she out of the blue realizes she may not be so alone. Is Betty believing an excessive amount of in the horror films she’s watched, or is somebody (or one thing) actually out to get her? Find out in this BRAND NEW horror anthology one-shot that‘s equal components Scream and When a Stranger Calls.
In a assertion saying the new one-shot, Ostow and Archie Comics Senior Director of Editorial Jamie L. Rotante elaborated on how Archie’s iconic lady subsequent door is a pure match for the Final Girl trope:
“I’m a diehard horror fan, and I’ve been obsessed with how seamlessly Archie’s been able to integrate different styles, levels, and aesthetics of spookiness into their Archie Horror library,” Micol mentioned. “And while I don’t have *one* favorite scary movie or book, I’ve always been a sucker for the ‘final girl’ trope. It hit me that Betty would make a fantastic final girl: blonde, kick-ass, capable!”
“When Micol Ostow first pitched the idea of doing a ‘final girl’-style story with Betty as the eponymous final girl, I was immediately interested; the idea of a ‘final girl’ is so synonymous with horror that it would be silly NOT to do it,” mentioned Archie Comics Senior Director of Editorial Jamie L. Rotante. “Every good teen/college horror flick utilizes that idea, so fitting it into the Archie universe was a lay-up. In keeping with our practice of horror anthologies, we also wanted to have there be more than one ‘final girl,’ so, the final girls of Betty, Brigitte, and Melody all came into play!”
The problem sports activities covers by Braga and Megan Hutchison, and Archie Art Director Vincent Lovallo described the method of placing the covers collectively:
“When considering the covers for BETTY: THE FINAL GIRL, we kept in mind the survival themes of fear and dread. Laura hit the mark perfectly with the eerie atmosphere of the forest, the frightening figure in the distance, and a battle-bloodied Betty who’s prepared to face the unknown. And from Betty’s bewildered expression to the neon-like glow of the surrounding demons, Megan’s variant creates an air of uncertainty; which horrors are real and which are fake?!”
Check out Hutchison’s variant cowl for the one-shot beneath. Chilling Adventures Presents…Betty: The Final Girl #1 is due out in shops and digitally on Wednesday, February fifteenth, 2023.
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