Archer & Armstrong Vol. 1: The Michelangelo Code
It's history in the breaking! After years of meditation and training, 18-year-old Obadiah Archer has been dispatched to New York City to carry out the sacred mission of his family's sect - locate and kill the fun-loving, hard-drinking immortal known as Armstrong! But as this naive teenage...
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It's history in the breaking! After years of meditation and training, 18-year-old Obadiah Archer has been dispatched to New York City to carry out the sacred mission of his family's sect - locate and kill the fun-loving, hard-drinking immortal known as Armstrong! But as this naive teenage assassin stalks his prey, he'll soon find that both hunter and hunted are just pawns in a centuries-old conspiracy that stretches from the catacombs beneath Wall Street to the heights of the Himalayas. And Archer & Armstrong will have to work together if the future is to stand any chance of surviving the past's greatest threat! From the New York Times best-selling creative team of writer Fred Van Lente (Marvel Zombies) and Clayton Henry (Incredible Herc), this volume collects Archer & Armstrong #1-4!
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780979640988 (0979640989)
Publish date: March 2013
Publisher: Valiant Entertainment
Pages no: 112
Edition language: English
Series: Archer & Armstrong (#1)
The comics world is full of team-ups, but this might be a little more unusual than most. Archer is the child of religious fanatics, sent on a mission in the name of Jesus and Capitalism - to kill a great evil. However that evil turns out to be a hard-living immortal who really just wants to be left ...
When you mix an immortal charming but rather foul-minded hedonist and a boy who's been brainwashed by ultra-religous parents and who hasn't left his childhood home, which is a religious-themed park/compound? Well, you get Archer and Armstrong. Archer is the naive, but well-intentioned boy who ...
I would typically write a lengthy review for this considering it's newer and it's one of the Valiant comics. However, I didn't find this one anywhere near as impressive as the other titles I've read so it completely underwhelmed me. The characters weren't all that badass or cool, and I didn't find m...