Archer & Armstrong #7 – Review

By: Fred Van Lente (story), Emanuela Lupacchino (art), Guillermo Ortego (inks), Matt Milla (colors)

The Story: In which it is proven that too much math can only lead to no good.

The Review: It’s funny.  You can go for years without seeing a movie about Abraham Lincoln, then all of a sudden, there’s two of them in the theaters one year.  True, one of them is a serious drama about the nature of principles and politics and the other involves slaying vampires and jumping off trains before they explode—but my point is sometimes, by chance, different writers will get the same ideas in their heads around the same time and go different ways with them.

I’m pretty sure the likelihood of someone reading both Dial H and Archer & Armstrong is even less than that of someone seeing Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, but if you do happen to read both, you have to notice their mutual fascination with the concept of “nothing as something.”  China Miéville basically spent his entire first arc exploring the different sides of “nothing,” but it’s Van Lente who manages to push out an accessible story out of it.