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''Archer & Armstrong'' are the title characters of the comic book series published by Valiant Comics. ''Archer & Armstrong'' featured writing and art by comics creator Barry Windsor-Smith. After video game publisher Acclaim Entertainment purchased the rights to the Valiant Character Catalog for $65 million in 1994, the characters continued to appear in many Valiant titles, most prominently in the ''Eternal Warriors'' series. Acclaim then rebooted the ''Archer & Armstrong'' characters to make them more easily adaptable to video games. Valiant Entertainment is the current owner of the Valiant catalog including ''Archer & Armstrong''. ''Archer & Armstrong'' has been called "The best buddy team book of all time." by Ain't It Cool News, and "Superhero buddy book of the decade" by Wizard Magazine. Ain't It Cool News also said that "Not since Batman & Robin has a more important duo hit the comic world." In 2008, Valiant released a deluxe hardcover of the ''Archer & Armstrong'' origin story, entitled ''Archer & Armstrong: First Impressions''. The hardcover was later named one of the top ten graphic novels of 2008 by Diamond Comic Distributors〔(The Best Collected Editions of 2008, December, 2008 )〕 and one of the best of 2008 by Ain't It Cool News. Valiant Entertainment began publishing a new ongoing ''Archer & Armstrong'' comic series in August 2012, written by Fred Van Lente and illustrated by Clayton Henry. ==Publication history== The first ''Archer & Armstrong'' series premiered in 1992. Published by Valiant Comics, the first issue was #0, a regular stand-alone issue that told the origin of the team-up. Issues # 1 and #2, a part of the crossover storyline "Unity", were written by Jim Shooter, Barry Windsor-Smith and Bob Layton, and drawn by Windsor-Smith. From there, issues 3 to 12 formed the series' initial storyline, which was written by Windsor-Smith, who also drew all of the issues except for 7 and 9. The storyline established the recurring enemy of the Sect, an international secret society that had infiltrated most of the world's significant governments and religious organizations. The storyline also established the importance of the magical satchel that Armstrong carries around him at all times, which was the storyline's MacGuffin. The series ran until 1994, its final issue being #26. Valiant Entertainment began a new series written by Fred Van Lente and illustrated by Clayton Henry in August 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Archer & Armstrong」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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