The Epic of Gilgamesh gets a Valiant spin in last week’s Archer & Armstrong #0, in which the hero of legend is replaced by the Anni-Padda brothers in a retelling of the tale that pits them against techno-organic man-scorpions, dinosaurs and more to recover the Boon, the ancient technology that granted them their immortality.Series writer Fred Van Lente joined ComicBook.com to talk about the issue.Remember that these “commentary track”-style interviews are meant for those who have already read the book, so there are spoilers ahead. If you haven’t yet, why not go buy a copy and read along with us?ComicBook.com: This is quite a jumping-on point. Did you guys make a concerted effort across the line to make sure the stories you were doing were done in time for #0 or did that just work out for archer & armstrong?Fred Van Lente: It was definitely just a coincidence in my case, where the opening in #1 had Ivar already in possession of The Boon, and Gilad was already dead, and there were these oblique references to a place called the Faraway, so there was a definite story-before-the-story there. I always wanted to tell that story, we just didn’t know when until fall of last year, when Valiant started cooking up the #0 initiative.
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