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BETTY AND VERONICA #1
IT’S BETTY VS. VERONICA! The most highly-anticipated debut in comics history is here! Betty and Veronica are America’s sweethearts… until they turn on each other! “Pops’ Chocklit Shoppe is being taken over by a huge coffee company. When Betty and Veronica go head-to-head over the issue, all bets are off! Friendships will shatter. Cities will burn. Nails will be broken. Betty and Veronica are back in this ALL-NEW #1 from comics legend Adam Hughes (Wonder Woman, Catwoman)!
Script: Adam Hughes
Art: Adam Hughes
Cover: Adam Hughes
Variant Covers: Stephanie Buscema, Cliff Chiang, Veronica Fish, Francesco Francavilla, Chip Zdarsky, and more!
On Sale Date: 7/20
32-page, full color comic
$3.99 U.S.
>There are plenty of memorable frenemy pairings in entertainment: Helena and Hermia, Vladimir and Estragon, Blair Waldorf and Serena Van Der Woodsen. But in the world of comics, one tense duo rises above them all: Betty Cooper and Veronica Lodge. The two Archie Comics characters have been at odds since the 1940s, squaring off over the affections of Archie Andrews and dissing one another's lifestyles. But this summer, their rivalry will enter a bold new chapter with the debut of a rebooted Betty & Veronica comics series, written and drawn by Adam Hughes. The 32-page first issue will hit stands on July 20.
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>>81735106
>Archie Comics has been in the midst of a wave of reboots in the past year or so. Archie and Jughead have both received sleek, modernized, acclaimed relaunches. Last spring, the publisher announced plans to also tackle Betty & Veronica as part of a controversial and canceled Kickstarter campaign, and now the relaunch is finally happening. The stakes in the first storyline are high, according to an official announcement given exclusively to Vulture: "Pops’ Chocklit Shoppe is being taken over by a huge coffee company," it reads. "When Betty and Veronica go head-to-head over the issue, all bets are off! Friendships will shatter. Cities will burn. Nails will be broken."
>“Why is there a Betty & Veronica comic when they already appear in Archie?" Hughes asks in an email interview. "It’s good to have a book where it’s just about them, where the boys are just background characters.” As with the other new Archie Comics series, the goal here is to reach out to comics buyers who might not otherwise pick up an Archie book in a checkout aisle. "I want my Betty & Veronica to be timely and relevant, but not dated in 10 years," Hughes says.
>Readers will no doubt find themselves deciding whether they identify more with the refined Veronica or the modest Betty, and Hughes has already made his choice. "I’m Team Betty, all the way," he says. "That being said, Veronica Lodge is delicious good fun to write."
Variant by Chip Zdarsky
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Variant by Veronica Fish
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Variant by Stephanie Buscema
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Variant by Francesco Francavilla
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Variant by Cliff Chiang
I've been loving how they revitalized the Archie line across the board, hyped for this too.
>>81735178
The latest issue of reboot Archie already felt stale.
>>81735106
>BETTY VS. VERONICA!
The greatest catfight in the history of comics.
>>81735106
>>81735161
The only good covers, IMO.
Also, very cool to see Hughes doing the interior art. But I doubt it'll be for more than what's collected in the first trade (so, ~6 issues).
ALSO, since this will essentially be an Archie thread, I'm just now finding that Archie is releasing their new trades fairly quickly. The Archie trade came out around March 22 or so, which was only a month after issue #6 came out. Very cool stuff.
So his WW is officially dead right? Everyone assumed he wasn't working on it because he had to draw Before Watchmen but now this pops up years after the fact.
>>81735106
As much as i love Adam Hughes artworks. I'm afraid it will be a long pause between issues. AH! is not known for his quick turnaround on sequential pages.
>>81735663
>So his WW is officially dead right?
Yes, with the WW Rebirth alternating artists being Liam Sharp and Nicola Scott.
>>81735106
I'm struggling to think of any other instance where Adam Hughes worked on actual comic interior pages. I always assumed he just drew covers and pinups. And now he's writing too? Wild shit.
>>81736627
>I'm struggling to think of any other instance where Adam Hughes worked on actual comic interior pages.
He's primarily a 90's DC artist.
>>81736627
He used to do it in the 90s, this is the most recent interiors I think he's done. He's good at them, not as stiff as you might expect.
Whoops, this is the most recent I mean
>>81735467
MMMM GIRLS
real question time
Betty or Veronica??
>>81736923
>>81736880
No, it was for Before Watchmen Dr Manhattan
>>81736949
Sabrina
>>81735106
>Adam Hughes
Sold. It'll work as porn if nothing else.
The reboot still sucks though.
>>81736499
With art like that I don't care.
>>81735106
>pic
All I can think of is that I want them to furiously make out.
>>81736880
>>81736923
No, his more recent interior works can be found in Before Watchmen, Fairest, Batman: Black & White, and a page in Harley Quinn serial.
This is like, the only comic I am looking forward to. Kinda sad.
>>81735106
Finally was wondering when this was coming out.
>>81737091
Josie, from CW Riverdale show
Is Hughes even a good writer?
What a waste of amazing art
>>81738898
That didn't take long
>Archie is slowly cannibalizing its video game properties to try a rebooted version of Archie
>Not knowing that Archie is a comic that appeals only to the same kinds of people who like Family Circus, and that trying to make it "hip" and "in" will go nowhere
>>81735161
>Chiang will never draw a lesbian romance book with Betty and Veronica
>>81738976
>Not realizing that the reason for this reboot is because the more mature Archie stuff has been outselling normal Archie by a more than significant amount.
>>81739110
>>81739110
Well, yeah. Because they're Elseworlds which toy with the concept of a 1950's world like Archie.
The 50s-era bubble Archie lives in just can't hold when given a 2016 coat of paint. It's like if you transported the cast of Ranma 1/2 to present day and you find out that by our standards, all of them need therapy.
Yawn. As tempting as Adam Hughes is it's obvious he won't last and this will either wind up as delayed as Afterlife or get as stale as the Archie and Jughead and Sabrina reboots have already gotten. Archie is a one-trick pony
>>81739110
Aren't the sales on Archie's reboot books already slowly dropping? The highs of relaunching a book at #1 only last so long before they even out.
>>81735663
I thought it was dead once they announced Morrison for WWEO
>>81739397
>Archie is a one-trick pony
And yet the classic formula was entertaining for DECADES.
>>81736627
he gets paid enough for covers that he doesn't have to do interiors anymore if he doesn't want to
>>81739526
>WWEO
Woo woo!
>>81739619
Was. They ditched what worked to give it a new coat of paint but it's still bland underneath it
>>81736880
>>81739641
Frank Cho was right. Afam Hughes women have no ass.
>>81740096
Not all women have ass, we need both Hughes and Cho
>>81740277
What if you put them both on a book as a rotating art team? Find the balance in the asses!
>>81739641
So either Archie bribed him onto the book with a lot of money or the man has really wanted to draw Betty and Veronica.
I'm okay with this if only for the fact we shall be awash with pinup style pages inside I hope.
