Archer turns dark after Armstrong betrays him and his version of dark is pretty hilarious. Meanwhile there's a civil war going on between the Sects. Armstrong and Ivar go on a pub crawl throughout time. This book is so much damn fun. It's one of those books you go back to read again and again.

Much better than previous volumes. I'm really falling in love with these characters.

Fun and amusing, if not a bit messy.Definitely enjoyed the fast paced fun. these characters are a blast as well.It’s a little weird reconciling the absurdism here with the relative seriousness of other Valiant titles, but I manage. It’s still cool. I do really like the characters. I’m excited to see how Bloodshot and Hard Corps interact with A&A in the next volume

"They think they know the night. They are wrong. The night "friended" me on Facebook. The night "likes" my Instagrams."The secret rulers of the world are at each other's throats; so, alas, are our heroes. Illuminatus replayed as superhero slapstick. Which it wasn't far off in the first place, so this should be entirely pointless, but it's light and fun enough that it still works.

Took we awhile to finish this volume since there is definitely a different feel to the story. Still enjoyable but I feel like it fell flat in areas.

Man, this series is fun.

Another hilarious fast-paced entry

“Some call it fried dough. Some call them funnel cakes. I call it JUSTICE FUEL”Fred Van Lente – I wanna party with you, cowboy.Our latest guilty pleasure from Valiant is volume 4 of the 2012 relaunch of Archer & Armstrong that collects single issues 14-17.In this world building, Van Lente and team have set up a universe where Armstrong has been around for over ten thousand years, he was born a Mesopotamian in Ur. He got sideways of some evil priests in Egypt thousands of years later and they st

Armstrong goes on a bar crawl through history with Ivar and Archer is on a mission to unite all the secret societies! Read and reviewed as part of Archer and Armstrong: Deluxe Edition 2

Archer & Armstrong...no more? After the events of the last volume, Archer strikes out on his own while Armstrong reunites with his lost brother Ivar to wander around time and generally just get drunk. But when the Sect threatens to fold in on itself and plunge the world into chaos, Archer and Armstrong must reunite to put the world to rights!I was really surprised by this story - I thought it would be about Archer & Armstrong starting the civil war and watching the Sect tear itself apart, but in...

I'm really intrigued to see where this is going with Archer now.

I can't say enough about what a surprisingly fun series this has turned out to be, and what a good example of how the amazing friends I've made on Goodreads have shoved gently nudged me to branch out and find things that I never would have discovered on my own. Alright, before I start ugly crying... Ok, so you know how Armstrong is a bit of an oaf, who acts first and thinks about the result of that action waaay too late to be of any use to him? Right.So in the last volume, he kinda sorta slept w...

I like a good story/plot-driven book as much as the next reader but what I really like seeing, and this is partly because it rarely happens, is a superhero comic where the superheroes decide they’re not going to do what they normally do; they’re just going to be selfish and think about themselves for a change - maybe even blow off some steam doing something stupid! That’s basically what happens in the first half of Archer & Armstrong Volume 4: Sect Civil War. The partnership is dissolved after A...

This title, like the other Valiant re-launch titles, started out great. They were far better than I expected them to be. Then something happened. They all collapsed into mediocrity (with one exception, Shadowman). The concept right out off the launch pad was great, but it seems now that the books have become directionless and mired in puerile humor instead thoughtful and well-conceived hilarity. Very, very disappointing.

Is it possible for a major comic to be written specifically for one person? I am starting to think Archer and Armstrong is written just for me. At this point, I feel like the entire Valiant Universe was written for me. It just keeps getting better and better the more trades that come out. This book is both hilarious and wonderful in the way that it serves as a connection between all of the valiant books. What a Universe, thanks for playing such a big part of it Armstrong.

While still better at being a humor book than an adventure book, this volume is written significantly tighter than the previous volumes. The inanity is far more believable, the characters seem less melodramatic (but still pretty dramatic), and rather than Deus Ex Piger Scriptor, the plot seems to ravel organically.There's a single issue of time traveling in this volume, but it's just a pub crawl through time, and not something where you have to wrap your head around when something is happening a...

Usually the series pulls off these short volumes (it's only four issues) but not this time. Still fun, but it felt too rushed.Plotlines include Archer and Armstrong working out their feelings about Mary-Maria and each other, Mary-Maria launching her own mission, the Sect collapsing into internecine warfare and Archer's plan to resolve everything. It's all good, but it needed much more time to really work. I think cutting out Armstrong's boring brother Ivar from one issue might have helped.

After the dramatic events in the previous volume Archer and Armstrong foment dissent within the Sect and take the fight back to their enemies. Some interesting seeds are laid for the future as we learn more about Aram's past. A great read.

I am loving this series. The silliness is off the charts. So many books try to take themselves too seriously, and this one veers in the opposite direction. Some people might not like the goofiness, but I've read enough stuff by Fred Van Lente to know I'll enjoy it.Archer seemingly turns his back on Armstrong after finding him in bed with his sister. He heads off to Project Rising Spirit for information on his past, which leads him into a full on battle with the Sect. I liked seeing the different...

Aight in parts, bad in others.World: The art is okay, not the best looking Valiant title but definitely a Valiant title. The world building is utterly choppy and all over the place making this arc a bit of a mess to read resulting in the end being unearned and a mess. The different Sect factions are never developed and other than their names that's all we get. The with Mary-Maria was also choppy as all heck and the main McGuffin for the world building was well...a McGuffin.Story: The story was c...