No, not really. But in the first portion of our ongoing discussion with Archer & Armstrong writer Fred Van Lente, we discussed the question of why interior artist Clayton Henry didn’t draw the covers for the first issue of the sold-out Valiant series, and Van Lente’s response was too good to pass up.There’s a lot of stuff going on in the first issue of Van Lente’s reimagining of Barry Windsor-Smith’s fan-favorite Archer & Armstrong, and so we wanted to make sure to talk to the writer about as much of it as we could…but we also kind jumped around a bit, so don’t necessarily expect to see us go page-by-page this time!Thanks to Fred for coming aboard! Away we go…The first thing is, the cover is beautiful but why not simply give that job to Clayton?What do you mean? This comic had 17 different covers and one of them was by Clayton! He did the 2nd printing variant cover too, which should be in stores soon enough.I don’t recall–was Mrs. Archer a congresswoman in the original?No. The original Archers were evangelist child rapists who didn’t hesitate to murder their son (Obie) when he discovers their crimes.The only way I could think of making them worse was to make one a member of Congress. (RIMSHOT)
I feel like we got a lot more insight into Armstrong this time around; in the previous version he was mysterious for longer.Archer & Armstrong: More Covers Than The Walking Dead!
No, not really. But in the first portion of our ongoing discussion with Archer & Armstrong writer […]