Whatever happened to Armstrong?After Aram was abandoned in the Far Faraway by a scorned Obadiah Archer, he and his brother Ivar (the Timewalker) make their way back to Archer in the most circuitous and entertaining way you can imagine: a time-tossed pub crawl, allowing the immortal Armstrong to relive his past drinking glories (and sometimes watch himself at work with the ladies, with foes in combat and more).That’s the premise for this issue, which mostly doesn’t feature Archer and which doesn’t really deal with the issue of where Mary-Maria went at all just yet.What it does do, though, is set up even more the escalating war between factions of The Sect, Valiant’s illuminati-like villains who have secretly run the world for centuries. Among other things, we see that Toyo Harada, in reaction to the events of the previous issues, is setting himself up to profit from the chaos that the Sect War is likely to bring about, and to profit a second time by being key to whatever rebuilding needs to be done at the end of it.We also get one of my favorite concepts so far in the series; to get personal for a moment, regular readers will remember The Gold Exchange and know that I’m a big fan of time-travel stories told well. A favorite, of course, is the Back to the Future trilogy, and Van Lente does an excellent job of evoking one of that series’ most nonsensical scenes here in a way that feels like an obvious wink-and-a-nod but is also accomplished in a way that makes more logical sense and makes the scene somewhat believable.Archer & Armstrong #15 was written by Fred Van Lente and drawn by Khari Evans. The issue was released yesterday, and is available on ComiXology by clicking here.As always, Van Lente joined us to discuss the issue, some of the cool narrative devices he used and what it means for the future of the series.
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