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A review by unladylike
Archer & Armstrong Volume 1: The Michelangelo Code by Fred Van Lente
3.0
It's appropriate that I'm reading both Archer & Armstrong and Preacher this month for my comics discussion group, as both deal with subverted, violent fictional mythos in contrast to fundamentalist Christian subculture. And I have to say, from my memory of Preacher so many years ago, this Valiant book is at least doing a better, more subtle job of it.
There were a few annoying things in this book, like, for example: "The Sect" is probably the worst name for a worldwide ultimate evil secret society that has infiltrated every other secret society. They'd might as well be called The Subcommittee or The Unorthodox Group, which is basically what sect means. I had to remind myself that this is slightly updated Indiana Jones-style humor, so when they're putting together some alien artifact using a piece called The Sphere, which is not at all spherical, I was able to get over it and just try having fun.
Overall, there are enough cliches avoided within the genre of religious cult sci-fi domination schemes that I'd like to read the subsequent volumes. But I'm not going to be bumping to the top of my To-Read queue anytime soon.
There were a few annoying things in this book, like, for example: "The Sect" is probably the worst name for a worldwide ultimate evil secret society that has infiltrated every other secret society. They'd might as well be called The Subcommittee or The Unorthodox Group, which is basically what sect means. I had to remind myself that this is slightly updated Indiana Jones-style humor, so when they're putting together some alien artifact using a piece called The Sphere, which is not at all spherical, I was able to get over it and just try having fun.
Overall, there are enough cliches avoided within the genre of religious cult sci-fi domination schemes that I'd like to read the subsequent volumes. But I'm not going to be bumping to the top of my To-Read queue anytime soon.