Some of you guys may get tired of me saying this, but I really don’t care, A&A: The Adventures of Archer and Armstrong #12 was amazing. It was a good way to kick off the year, yes, I know it’s February , but I still count it. The book is entertaining, with a great dose of action, some plot twists and even a few laugh-out-loud scenes.
I read this book in a rush, something out of the ordinary for me with this series, thanks to its fast paced rhythm. That said, I liked it a lot even if I blasted right through it. Time really doesn’t mean much in an issue like this where everything just flows so well and reads so easily.
You get immersed into A&A: The Adventures of Archer and Armstrong #12, feeling like you’re there with the whole crew, wanting to help in their mission, which is a problem as you can’t do it literally, but it is what it is. We often wish we can be characters, but It’s not often a comic book makes you wish you were there alongside the characters.
What made me love A&A: The Adventures of Archer and Armstrong #12 was the coloring on each of the pages. It was very detailed, very pleasing to the eye and done with a lot of care and love. I didn’t pay much attention to it at first because of the quick reading pace, but the last two pages are a marvel to be seen and made me really take notice.
The lettering here is fluent, easy to read and doesn’t cover up anything important with regards to the art. Maybe it doesn’t match the images perfectly, as it’s still hard to see blank spaces here and there with narration and dialogues on different parts of the pages, but, again, it is what it is, and since we don’t have many of them on a single page, it’s not a big deal.
I was also impressed by the panel distribution and how they covered different zones of a full-page. It is a combination Valiant has been using a lot lately for this comic series, but it seems to have been mastered in this issue, creating an impressive effect, as if we were reading a film’s detailed storyboard from an artbook.
I’m sure you can guess, but yes, I highly recommend you read A&A: The Adventures of Archer and Armstrong #12. I feel we’re getting closer to the final chapter of this story, which I’m eager to see.
5/5
“Superb”
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