Betty Cooper

Yesterday was a big day for actors and writers, as well as anyone—like us—who covers the entertainment industry as SAG-AFTRA officially joined the WGA on the picket lines for the first time in 60 years. From AI reveals to Fran Drescher’s pretty great, off-the-cuff speech about the labor problems facing actors in Hollywood, all eyes were on LA yesterday. We’ll be figuring out what this means for San Diego Comic-Con soon, but until then, remember spoilers... Fran Fine would never, ever cross a picket line.Who Should Play…

Tyler Gillett teases his “gory as hell” Universal Monsters movie. American Horror Story: Delicate finds a few more stars. Plus, what’s coming on The Flash, Yellowjackets, and Riverdale. To me, my spoilers!Spoilers of the Week: July 1stHouse of StairsVariety reports Jacob Tremblay is attached to star in House of Stairs, a film adaptation of Will Sleator’s 1974 YA sci-fi novel from director Wi Ding Ho. Adapted for the screen by Matthew McInerney-Lacombe, the story follows “five 16-year-old orphans who wake up to find…

Screenshot: The CWIf you watch the utter madness that has been Riverdale, you know season six ended in a place where... well, everyone on the show seemed both happy and safe. That’s thanks to Cheryl Blossom’s sorcery and a meteor a dark wizard conjured to hit Riverdale, which—as one would expect—sent everyone into a new universe where they’re innocent teens in an idealized 1950s. But as this seventh-season trailer reveals, even ‘50s Riverdale can’t stay innocent for long.One more thing to remember: Jughead is the only one…

Image: Archie ComicsLook. I know io9 runs a lot of Archie Comics previews. The problem is they’re so damn fun, whether the classic gang of Archie, Betty, Veronica, and Jughead are facing monsters, angsty alternate universe doppelgangers, or giant robots. So we’d be doing you and ourselves a disservice if we didn’t show you this preview of Archie Vs. the World.While the Mad Max: Fury Road influence is obvious by Archie and Jug’s jalopy joyride, the comic—by writer Aubrey Sitterson and artist Jed Dougherty—takes much more…

Image: Archie ComicsIs there anything Riverdale’s scrappy teens haven’t faced by now? How about giant robots and kaiju monsters? Now this new one-shot Archie & Friends: All Action kicks off with a story written by Daniel Kibbelsmith (The Late Show With Stephen Colbert) titled “Super Mecha Teens”—and he binged all of Evangelion to prepare!The comic, with art by Ryan Jampole, colors by Glenn Whitmore, letters by Jack Morelli, and cover by Jampole and Rosario “Tito” Peña, arrives in April. Today, io9 has a sneak peek of…

Image: Archie ComicsIf you thought Archie Comics’ horror series was running out of ridiculous monsters for its stars to battle, well, the publisher has a little Christmas present for you. Namely, an upcoming one-shot titled Happy Horror Days, which features three tales of holiday mayhem, and io9 has a special preview of all three.First up is a look at Frank Tieri and Joe Eisma’s “T’was the Night Before the Hunger,” which returns to the Hunger-verse where Betty Cooper: Monster Hunter tries to enlist her lycanthropic friend…

Image: Archie ComicsWhile the utterly bonkers TV series Riverdale is how most people know the venerable Archie Comics franchise nowadays, the publisher hasn’t just been riding the show’s coattails. Between bizarre mash-ups like Archie Meets Pretty Little Liars and horror comics like Jughead: The Hunger (where he becomes a werewolf), Archie isn’t afraid to mix it up. And that holds true with its newest horror comic, Chilling Adventures Present: Weirder Mysteries, in which girl-next-door Betty Cooper basically takes on John…

Image: Archie ComicsYou’ve heard of classic Archie Comics character Li’l Jinx, a mischievous tyke who earned her unusual name by being born on Halloween? Replace “tyke” with “teen” (and lose the “Li’l”) and you’ve got the main character of Chilling Adventures Presents... Jinx’s Grim Fairy Tales, a new Archie Horror one-shot that io9 is previewing today.Here’s the official synopsis: “Teen Jinx Holliday is Riverdale’s go-to babysitter. The (often unruly) kids that she watches over always change, seemingly for the better.…

Screenshot: The CWIn what was arguably the great flex ever seen on a CW show, Percival sent a series of biblical plagues upon the town, including killing every first-born person in Riverdale. Sons, daughters, the elderly, etc.—all of ‘em. Archie, Jughead, Toni, and Fangs all died, leaving Betty, Veronica, Tabitha, and Cheryl wondering what the hell to do next. Please note that I almost certainly have done a “22 Insane Things That Happened on Riverdale” list on the last five episodes of season six alone. (s6, ep18)…

I believe this look is also exactly how actor Cole Sprouse feels about the show’s latest twist.Screenshot: The CWIf you watched last night’s Riverdale season six finale, I assume you’re still reeling from the madness that just went down. If you didn’t, here’s what happened on the show that makes Gotham look like a low-key, down-to-earth drama.Trying to explain everything that’s happened on Riverdale this season is an impossible task, but to sum it up: Hiram Lodge tried to blow up Archie with a bomb, which instead somehow…