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REVIEW: A&A: The Adventures Of Archer & Armstrong #7 (Next Stop Clowntown Part 2)

Publisher: Valiant Comics
Writer: Rafer Roberts
Artist: Mike Norton with David Lafuente
Colourist: Allen Passalaqua
Release Date: OUT NOW!
Price: $3.99

AA The-Adventures of Archer Armstrong #7 Next Stop Clowntown Part-2 Valiant Comics
AA The-Adventures of Archer Armstrong #7 Next Stop Clowntown Part-2 Valiant Comics

Who would have guessed that a big galoot like Armstrong in A&A: The Adventures Of Archer & Armstrong #7 (Next Stop Clowntown Part 2) would suffer from Coulrophobia! That’s fear of clowns to you and me (what, you didn’t know that? Sheesh, do they not teach the classics in schools these days?) Anyway, Armstrong has good reason for his dislike of circus funnymen but it dates back to the 1700’s and is pretty gross, so we’ll delicately draw a veil over that piece of the 6,000-year-old immortal’s history, and bring you up to date .

In A&A: The Adventures Of Archer & Armstrong #7 (Next Stop Clowntown Part 2) we find Armstrong and Archer tagging along with a Russian Circus full of malformed Armstrong clones! It seems Armstrong has been careless with his DNA in the past and that mistake is now coming back to bite him, literally.

Ostensibly for A&A: The Adventures Of Archer & Armstrong #7 (Next Stop Clowntown Part 2) our intrepid pair are searching for Armstrong’s estranged wife but in between dodging murderous clowns and having to pretend they are circus performers, in what has to be the most dangerous knife throwing act ever, not much progress is being made on that front.

The sheer inspired lunacy of A&A: The Adventures Of Archer & Armstrong #7 (Next Stop Clowntown Part 2) is enough to take your breath away and Rafer Roberts deserves some sort of medal for dishing up such a glorious concoction of humour and absurdity.

Just to add the icing on this already multi-layered cake, Archer’s Ninja-Nun sister, Mary-Maria, and her chums in the Sisters of Perpetual Darkness are besieged by the Council of Elders. And there’s a Davey the Mackerel short. And did I mention the Russian science bear?  A&A: The Adventures Of Archer & Armstrong #7 (Next Stop Clowntown Part 2) is that most sort after item, a good thing that you definitely cannot have too much of.

 

Reviewer: Gary Orchard
Reviews Editor: Steve Hooker