When we last saw Archer and Armstrong, they had just been introduced to the new Geomancer–a re-envisioning of the classic Valiant character who had survived an encounter with the Null and the One Percent, a couple of groups of nasty-baddies that our two heroes (and Armstrong’s brother The Eternal Warrior) have some experience with.In this week’s Archer & Armstrong #7, we got to see how the new Geomancer interacts not just with her powers, or even with Archer, Armstrong and Eternal Warrior, but also with the world around her–a cool visual tic that makes everything appear as essentially source code.What does it all mean? What role does the Geomancer have to play? And how does all of this tie in with the forthcoming Harbinger Wars?Read on for a few words with series writer Fred Van Lente.As always, these interviews are spoiler-filled. If you haven’t seen the comic yet, you really should buy it and read along with us.You slipped the reference to your alma mater in there–even if it wasn’t the same Syracuse…well played. It doesn’t stick out as much as when Sorkin does it.Sorkin went to Syracuse University too? I actually didn’t know that. But then, not a huge fan. “You can’t handle the truth”? Great line. I’m kind of lukewarm on the rest of it.I got started on my comics career at SU, as I met Ryan (Action Philosophers) Dunlavey there, as well as Steve Ellis, who I did The Silencers with, the comic that got me my first job at Marvel (in a roundabout way).You do realize that most of your audience will find it difficult to believe the Eternal Warrior had anything to do with Archimedes because he was not included as a variant in any of the Mythbusters experiments, right?You realize … other people are reading this, right? This isn’t just a conversation between you and me? We should probably be explaining opaque references, not making more of them…Anyway, yes, the Mythbusters had a terrific episode in which they actually tried to build the Archimedes “death ray” and learned it … well, it probably wouldn’t be as spectacular as Emanuela depicts it here. But maybe Archimedes knew something they didn’t: https://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/death-ray-minimyth.htmFun fact: During the American Revolution, the London press claimed Benjamin Franklin was trying to build the Archimedes device to attack the English fleet.
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