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It's history in the breaking After years of meditation and training, 18-year-old Obadiah Archer has been dispatched to New York City to carry out the sacred mission of his family's sect -- locate and kill the fun-loving, hard-drinking immortal known as Armstrong But as this naive teenage assassin stalks his prey, he'll soon find that both hunter and hunted are just pawns in a centuries-old conspiracy that stretches from the catacombs beneath Wall Street to the heights of the Himalayas. And Archer & Armstrong will have to work together if the future is to stand any chance of surviving the past's greatest threat From the "New York Times" best-selling creative team of writer Fred Van Lente ("Marvel Zombies") and artists Clayton Henry ("Incredible Herc") , Emanuela Lupacchino ("X-Factor") , and Pere Perez ("Action Comics") , this volume collects "Archer & Armstrong "#1-13 and the critically acclaimed #0.



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Fred Van Lente

Fred Van Lente is the New York Times-bestselling author of comics as varied as Archer & Armstrong (Harvey Award nominee, Best Series) , Taskmaster, MODOK's 11, Amazing Spider-Man, Conan the Avenger, Weird Detective, and Cowboys & Aliens (upon which the 2011 movie was based) , as well as the novels Ten Dead Comedians and The Con Artist.Van Lente also specializes in entertaining readers with offbeat histories with the help of his incredibly talented artists. He has written the multiple-award winning Action Philosophers! (American Library Association Best Graphic Novel for Teens) , The Comic Book History of Comics, Action Presidents! (all drawn by Ryan Dunlavey) , and The Comic Book Story of Basketball with Joe Cooper (Ten Speed September 2020) .He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Crystal Skillman, and some mostly ungrateful cats, and loves hearing from readers at fred.vanlente@gmail.com.



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