Valiant Comics announces a first-ever burnt wood variant cover for Archer & Armstrong Forever #1, which features artwork by Marcio Fiorito.
Valiant Comics has announced the first-ever burnt wood variant cover for the upcoming Archer & Armstrong Forever #1.
Valiant’s Archer & Armstrong Forever #1 burnt wood variant cover is a new collectible featuring art by Marcio Fiorito. The variant uses laser etching technology to burn the artwork into a wood cover in honor of the debut issue of the series. It is available exclusively at retailers, who will recieve one of the unique covers for every 250 Archer & Armstrong Forever #1 copies ordered.
Archer & Armstrong Forever #1 comes from Fiorito, writer Steve Foxe, colorist Alex Guimarães and letter Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, with cover art by Bernard Chang, David Talaski, Dan Hipp, Ro Stein and Ted Brandt. The synopsis for the issue readas, “When Armstrong seemingly loses his immortality, Archer refuses to let his best buddy go gentle into that good night. But when you live for millennia, you rack up plenty of enemies who’ll be thrilled to find out you’re no longer indestructible. Archer & Armstrong’s globetrotting quest for (more) immortality begins here!”
The upcoming series marks the first time the titular two characters have appeared together in their own run since 2017’s The Adventures of Archer and Armstrong #12 by writer Rafer Roberts and artist Mike Norton. “Ever since Archer and Armstrong got over the whole ‘raised since birth to assassinate you’ thing, Archer has felt a sense of concern for Armstrong, but it’s been tempered by seeing his erstwhile mentor get impaled and blown up and whatnot and just shaking it off,” Foxe previously told CBR. “Archer’s never really needed to consider a world where he’d outlive Armstrong — the pathos has usually been the other way around, with Armstrong reckoning with the knowledge that Archer isn’t his first, and probably won’t be his last, little buddy. But with Armstrong finding himself a bit less invulnerable at the start of Forever, their entire dynamic is tossed in the air. Archer doesn’t just have to keep himself alive — suddenly the big bruiser who’s used to charging into danger face-first could actually lose that face if he isn’t careful. And beyond that, Archer is realizing that one of the few constants in his life might actually be less constant than he expected.”
“I think Steve went and shook the status quo in a big and amazing way,” Fiorioto added. “What happens when something changes in a relationship? People may react differently, and they may assume other parts they never thought of before. I think that’s the direction we’re heading here.”
Archer & Armstrong Forever #1 goes on sale May 4 from Valiant Comics.
Source: Valiant Entertainment
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