Camp Pickens # 1

Title: Camp Pickens # 1
Publisher: Archie Comics
Story by: Jordan Morris, Blake Howard, Tim Seeley
Line Art by: Diana Camero, Carola Borelli, Mike Norton
Colors by: Matt Herms
Letters by: Jack Morelli
Main Cover: Matt Talbot
Variant Cover: Francesco Francavilla
Price: $ 3.99 US
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Website: www.archiecomics.com
Comments: "Bug Juice" Jughead leads a small group of kids on a hunt. Killer bugs may be lurking in the woods ready to attack. This part builds up the suspense and hints that the murdering bugs may have already started murdering. The art is gorgeously done with perfect colors. 
  "The Curse of Camp Pickens" Betty and Toni join the gang for campfire stories. This part quickly builds up some suspense and jumps right in to the punch line. Betty is a good counselor and acts as you would expct her to, this though in this one instant was the wrong thing to do. Sometimes doing the right thing can be the wrong thing to do.
  Meanwhile Jughead and the campers run into a few bugs. They do get some exercise dealing with them. The kids are shown squishing this threat. 
  "Down and Out and Death Cursed" Veronica arrives at camp. Veronica makes herself right at home at camp. Veronica is oblivious to the danger around her. A ghost named Jack is not oblivious to Veronica. 
   Meanwhile Jughead and the kids are still dealing with the bugs. They find a solution to this problem yet others remain.
  All these stories are beautifully presented just like a horror movie.  The Archie characters do get used in ways that they are not in the regular comics. Here they can and do die. 


Richard Vasseur