Alright, taking a break from New York Comic Con.Why? Because we can! When Archer & Armstrong #14 came out earlier this week, it was an exciting issue–the first chapter of a new storyline always is–but it wasn’t something I could leap right into, since we had a mountain of news coming in from New York Comic Con. Finally, I got a chance to sit down with the book last night and, knowing that Fred Van Lente was an incredibly busy man this week, didn’t much expect for him to get right back to me.He did, though, because the man’s a machine.It was an abbreviated commentary track, though, so here’s an overview of what you need to know.Besides, of course, the location of the digital copy, which comes with special bonus backmatter. That’s here, and you should buy it before reading along this spoiler-filled commentary.This month saw the origins of the sect–something that gave us a centuries-old look at a cynical pharaoh who believed that religion was to be used to keep the people in line–and then saw what happened when he espoused that philosophy in front of the wrong kinds of people. The religious leaders of the day came in to clean up the mess and, basically, the Illuminati was born there on the spot, an all-encompassing religious world order made up of a variety of different groups that, today, we would recognize as being from a variety of social and political backgrounds.Black Bloc members walk hand-in-hand with the One Percent to keep the rest of the world cowed.
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