Archie In Hell #1 Cover Preview

 

Cover A By Tyler Crook

Archie Andrews loves life. He’s got the best girl in the world in Betty Cooper. But then, he also adores Veronica Lodge. When he’s not dating the loves of his life, Archie’s hanging out with his friend Jughead. His life in Riverdale couldn’t be better. Still, Archie will do his best to make it Heaven on Earth. 

 

So, what happens when Archie resolves to pack more into each day? Can he juggle his love life, his scholastic endeavors, sports, time with his friends, and his charity work without everything falling through his hands?

 

Here's all the info from Oni Press:

Archie In Hell #1 Cover Preview

Writer: Patrick Horvath

Artist: Tyler Crook

Colorist: Francesco Segala

Flatter: Sabrina del Grosso

Letterer: Tyler Crook

Cover Artists: Tyler Crook, Patrick Horvath, Paul Azaceta, Jessie Lonergan, Kano, Dan Parent, Mirka Andolfo & Mahmud Asrar

Also Available: Blank Sketch Cover 

Publisher: Oni Press

Issue Description: 32 Pages, Full Color

Price: $4.99 US

Release Date: November 4, 2026

 

 

 

To Save Him . . .

They had to Damn Him! 

 

 

 

In the bloodstained tradition of Afterlife With Archie, something wicked this way comes to Riverdale in an infernal new ongoing series from multiple Eisner Award nominee Patrick Horvath (Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees) and Russ Manning Award winner Tyler Crook (Out of Alcatraz, Harrow County)!

 

They say that every small town has a secret. Well, in the case of Riverdale, it’s one heck of a humdinger: An ancient order of cultists has infiltrated its townspeople, bent on using human sacrifice to usher a demon lord into our mortal plane. And they’ve finally identified the final target they need to bring a century’s worth of planning to fruition: hometown football champion and all-around good guy Archie Andrews. 

 

But this secret cabal never dreamed that actual witches walk Riverdale’s streets . . . and when cult and coven clash in the final stages of Archie’s secret-ritual sacrifice, the consequences will be cosmic . . . and young Archie Andrews will find himself damned to something far worse than Hell’s inner circle.

 

Unstuck from time and space. Bound to a terrible curse. Late for school. Things are about to go from bad to downright diabolical as Horvath and Crook unleash the most malevolently merciless Archie Comics tale ever told . . . and, truly, you’ll never, ever expect what happens next.

 

 

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Cover B By Patrick Horvath

 

 

Cover C By Paul Azaceta

Cover D By Jesse Lonergan

Cover E Blank Sketch

Foil Variant ($8.99) By Tyler Crook

Foil Variant ($8.99) By Patrick Horvath

Teaser Variant (1:10) By Kano

Legacy Variant (1:20) By Dan Parent

Variant Cover (1:50) By Mirka Andolfo

B&W Variant (1:250) By Jesse Lonergan

Not Pictured:  

Variant Cover (1:100) By Mahmud Asrar

 

 

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For more of Archie's adventures, see Archie #1 Review. 

 

For more of the magical realm of Archie's world, see Sabrina the Teenage Witch #1 Review. 

Sabrina the Teenage Witch #1 Review

 

Sabrina the Teenage Witch #1 Review

Writer: Corinna Bechko

Artists: Kano & Nick Cagnetti

Letterer: DC Hopkins

Cover Artists: Kano; Marguerite Sauvage; Naomi Franq; Caroline Cash, Dan Parent, Erica Henderson; Mahmud Asrar & Matt Wilson

Also Available: Sketch Covers & Comic Shop Exclusives

Editors: Megan Brown & Joelena Despard

Publisher: Oni Press

Issue Description: 32 Pages, Full Color

Price: $4.99 US

Release Date: October 7, 2026

 

Transitioning from childhood to the teenage years can be tough. High School forces you to level up in every area of your life. Every day brings unexpected discoveries, demands important decisions, and imposes new responsibilities. And a seemingly endless succession of authority figures who want to teach you how to think and behave.

 

Sabrina has just discovered that she is a witch. Even more shocking: her cat can talk. How will Sabrina take to her new responsibilities? And what dangers will threaten the novice? Let's leap into Sabrina the Teenage Witch #1 and see!

 

Story

Before she discovered her powers, Sabrina bought her Halloween costume. Now, she's stuck with it. As she dresses up as a pretend witch, Sabrina also wonders what type of real-life witch she will become. Her aunt Zelda fears the dangers threatening such an inexperienced witch. Her aunt Hilda cherishes her niece's awakening. Yet, Sabrina’s lighthearted aunt also cautions her to take her new life seriously in Sabrina the Teenage Witch #1.

 

Still, this is Halloween. Even if life has saddled Sabrina with unwanted responsibilities, everyone deserves a fun evening with their friends. And she doesn't want to let down Libby, who is hosting such a grand party for them. So when her cat brings his recent kill to the doorstep, Sabrina refuses to take her new familiar’s assertion seriously.

 

While Salem’s concern for his inexperienced master opens the story, the rest of Corinna Bechko’s story follows the girl’s first night as a witch on Halloween. Unfortunately, Sabrina learns that witches don’t get to decide when they have time off. When a responsibility she tries to shirk festers, the young witch must protect her friends on her own. As she endangers her friends, her life in Greendale could become more dangerous in Sabrina the Teenage Witch #1.

 

Art

Sabrina’s feline partner often resembles a silhouette. After opening with his yellow eyes, panels focus on his bared teeth, extended claws, and the black cat attacking vermin before a full moon. When he appears with his catch outside Sabrina’s round window, the network of cames between the glass panes evokes a spiderweb. Sabrina is more concerned about how she looks in her black dress, striped stockings, and pointy hat. Still, Sabrina outshines Zelda with her short blonde hair, horn-rimmed glasses, and black T-shirt honoring a pop-culture villain.

 

Aunt Hilda seems more fun with her long orange hair, multicolored long-sleeve shirt, and the red hearts that fill the air when she smiles. Sabrina's white hair glows, thanks to Kano's yellow inking. Background characters occasionally fade into pale pink or lavender paper cutouts. Yet the page frames and scene backgrounds contrast Salem’s seriousness with Sabrina's irresponsibility. Blue dominates Salem's opening scenes, while yellow surrounds Sabrina. Purple frames her arrival at Libby’s party. Yet different shades of blue frame the panels as Sabrina confronts the problem threatening her friends in Sabrina the Teenage Witch #1.

 

While characters speak black uppercase letters into white balloons, Salem’s white dialogue and thoughts fill black balloons and boxes. A black-and-white Manga-style caricature of Sabrina’s face occasionally speaks white letters onto a colored background. DC Hopkins’ sound effects haunt Sabrina’s first Halloween as a witch with scratching nails, creaking wood, hissing, shrieking, clumsy conjuring, and the splat of something that turns Sabrina’s stomach. Nick Cagnetti’s introductory lessons for witches and familiars insist that, regardless of species, trust and respect are crucial to securing a magical partnership. Thanks to Oni Press and Superfan Promotions for providing a review copy.

 

Final Thoughts

Sabrina Spellman wanted to be ordinary. Instead, she learned that she possesses extraordinary abilities. Some might greet such an unexpected boon with joy. But Sabrina only regards her gift as a burden. Sabrina may have made her early days as a witch more difficult. Still, if she treats Salem with more respect, perhaps her familiar can help her through them in Sabrina the Teenage Witch #1.

 

Rating 9.8/10

 

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Cover A: Kano

Transitioning from childhood to the teenage years can be tough. High School forces you to level up in every area of your life. Every day brings unexpected discoveries, demands that you make important decisions, and imposes new responsibilities. And there's no end of authority figures who want to teach you how to think and behave. 

Sabrina has just discovered that she is a witch. Perhaps even more shocking: she's just realized that her cat can talk. How will Sabrina take to her new responsibilities? And what dangers will threaten the novice?

Here's all the info from Oni Press: 

Sabrina the Teenage Witch #1 Cover Preview

Writer: Corinna Bechko

Artists: Kano & Nick Cagnetti

Letterer: DC Hopkins

Cover Artists: Kano; Marguerite Sauvage; Naomi Franq; Caroline Cash, Dan Parent, Erica Henderson; Mahmud Asrar & Matt Wilson

Also Available: Sketch Covers & Comic Shop Exclusives

Editors: Megan Brown & Joelena Despard

Publisher: Oni Press

Issue Description: 32 Pages, Full Color

Price: $4.99 US

Release Date: October 7, 2026

 

 

Your local Teenage Witch 

is Conjuring Mischief!

 

 

Just in time for Halloween, Hugo Award–Nominated writer Corinna Bechko (Green Lantern: Earth One, EC’s Blood Type) and Eisner Award–Nominated artist Kano (Daredevil, EC’s Cruel Universe) summon a new spell of magic and mischief in a brand-new ongoing series hell-bent on launching comics’ most iconic sorceress-in-training into a spectacular new era for Archie Comics!

 

Who’d ever want to be ordinary when you could be a teenage witch instead? Sabrina is still reeling from the surprise revelation of her secret birthright. With Halloween just around the corner, high schooler Sabrina Spellman is honing her craft one hex at a time. She's also figuring out how to balance her magical new life with the crushing responsibilities of being 16 years old. But when her feline familiar, Salem, drops a mythical trickster onto Sabrina’s literal doorstep, she might not be able to keep her two worlds from smashing together like busted pumpkins on All Hallow’s Eve. No time for fate. No time for destiny. No time for homework. Sabrina’s about to find out that being a teenager is far from magical . . . even when you’re a teenage witch!

 

Plus, a special trick (and treat): Explore the inner workings of Sabrina’s secret guide to familiars, featuring the spellbinding artwork of Nick Cagnetti (Spirit of the Shadows)!

 

 

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Cover B: Marguerite Sauvage

 

 

 

Cover C: Naomi Franq

 

 

 

 

Cover D: Caroline Cash

 

 

Cover E: Blank Sketch

 

Foil Variant ($8.99): Kano

Foil Variant ($8.99): Caroline Cash

Pyre Satanic Variant: Chloe Brailsford

Teaser Variant (1:10): Kano

Classic Variant (1:20): Dan Parent

Variant Cover (1:50): Erica Henderson

B&W Variant (1:250): Kano

Not Shown:

Variant Cover (1:100): Mahmud Asrar

 

For more Archieverse titles from Oni Press, see Archie #1 Review and

Archie: New Riverdale Compact Edition SC. 

Cruel Universe 2 #8 Cover Preview

 

There's no such thing as safety. Regardless of how things change, life will always present dangers. And as we push our society forward, it also changes us. How will science transform how we live? And will the machines and technologies we develop ever be about to return our love?

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CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #8 (OF 12)

WRITTEN BY MIKE CAREY, MELISSA FLORES, JEFF JENSEN ART BY DANIEL GETE, KANO, LUKAS KETNER COVER A BY MIGUEL MERCADO COVER B BY TOM FOWLER EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY ALBERT MONTEYS B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY TOM FOWLER ARCHIVE EDITION (1:50) BY MALACHI WARD What’s that in the sky? A flaming meteor, hurtling toward Earth? An invading alien armada? No, it’s the latest issue of EC’s Eisner and Ringo Award–nominated science-fiction monstrosity . . . and no one will be spared!  In preparation for the imminent collapse of human society, give into your most deeply buried desires and distract yourself from the flaming ruin that awaits us all as the devious minds of writers Mike Carey (Hellblazer), Melissa Flores (Power Rangers Prime), and Jeff Jensen (Green River Killer) conjoin with apocalyptic artists Kano (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss), Lukas Ketner (Count Crowley), and more to bring our fast-devolving civilization to its much-deserved end. $4.99 | 32 PGS. | FULL COLOR | ON SALE MARCH 4, 2026

 

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COVER B BY TOM FOWLER

 

 

EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY ALBERT MONTEYS

 

B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY TOM FOWLER

 

ARCHIVE EDITION (1:50) BY MALACHI WARD

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Cruel Universe 2 #8 Cover Preview

 

COVER A BY MIGUEL MERCADO

 

Cruel Universe wields cutting edge science fiction with razor-sharp social commentary. Each issue shows us the glorious tomorrows awaiting us while warning us of our Human foibles. What thought-provoking stories are EC Comics and Oni Press bringing our way next?

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CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #8 (OF 12)

WRITTEN BY MIKE CAREY, MELISSA FLORES, JEFF JENSEN ART BY DANIEL GETE, KANO, LUKAS KETNER COVER A BY MIGUEL MERCADO COVER B BY TOM FOWLER EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY ALBERT MONTEYS B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY TOM FOWLER ARCHIVE EDITION (1:50) BY MALACHI WARD What’s that in the sky? A flaming meteor, hurtling toward Earth? An invading alien armada? No, it’s the latest issue of EC’s Eisner and Ringo Award–nominated science-fiction monstrosity . . . and no one will be spared!  In preparation for the imminent collapse of human society, give into your most deeply buried desires and distract yourself from the flaming ruin that awaits us all as the devious minds of writers Mike Carey (Hellblazer), Melissa Flores (Power Rangers Prime), and Jeff Jensen (Green River Killer) conjoin with apocalyptic artists Kano (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss), Lukas Ketner (Count Crowley), and more to bring our fast-devolving civilization to its much-deserved end. $4.99 | 32 PGS. | FULL COLOR | ON SALE MARCH 4, 2026 IOD: 1/31/2026 FOC: 2/9/2026

 

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COVER B BY TOM FOWLER

 

EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY ALBERT MONTEYS

 

B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY TOM FOWLER

 

ARCHIVE EDITION (1:50) BY MALACHI WARD

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New to the Cruel Universe anthology series? See my review of Cruel Universe 2 #5.