SQUARE PEGS IN A ROUND WORLD Archer is the world?s greatest hand-to-hand ?ghter, an expert marksman, and a seeker of truth and righteousness. Armstrong is an immortal warrior who has reluctantly brawled his way from pre-history to modern times only to realize that the best way to face life?s many challenges is to grab a drink. But Armstrong counts as his worst day the one when Archer turned up and decided that they were partners ? a team chosen by fate to save the world! From the minds of legendary creators Barry Windsor-Smith (Weapon X), Jim Shooter (Secret Wars), Bob Layton (Iron Man), and more comes the first Valiant Classic Collection of the groundbreaking series CBR calls a ""comic book masterpiece""! Collecting ARCHER & ARMSTRONG (1992) #0?12.

Archer & Armstrong is a superhero buddy comedy without the tights. Archer is the world's greatest hand-to-hand fighter, an expert marksman, and a seeker of truth and righteousness. Since being murdered by his parents, he has returned from the dead convinced that God has empowered him to right the wrongs of the world. Armstrong is a ten-thousand year old libertine as strong as a battalion who abandoned naive idealism thousands of years ago. He spends his days wandering the world drinking, fighting. And telling stories of his unbelievable adventures throughout history. On the run from an ancient cult and its bumbling agents that have been hunting Armstrong for two thousand years, the unlikely pair team up to face down the threat that could destroy the world!

At last ? the essential origins and early adventures of Valiant?s most powerful heroes and allies, collected between two covers for the first time anywhere! Celebrate 25 years of the largest independent superhero universe in comics with these all-star explorations of Valiant?s indelible comics book icons, including X-O MANOWAR, HARBINGER, BLOODSHOT, ARCHER & ARMSTRONG, SHADOWMAN, and many more! Who they are, how they came to be, and what they fear the most? This is your essential one-stop guide to the biggest heroes, villains, and super-teams that the Valiant Universe has to offer, just in time for Valiant?s 25th anniversary celebration! Collecting ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #0, BLOODSHOT #0, HARBINGER #0, PUNK MAMBO #0, QUANTUM AND WOODY: THE GOAT #0, SHADOWMAN #0, UNITY #0, X-O MANOWAR #0, and material from ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #25, BLOODSHOT #25, HARBINGER #25, X-O MANOWAR #25, and FCBD 2014: VALIANT UNIVERSE HANDBOOK #1.

After years of training, Obadiah Archer has been dispatched to New York City to root out and kill the infamous Great Satan of his parents' sect. Unfortunately, dying has never been easy for Archer?s target ? the hard-drinking year-old immortal known as Armstrong. Together, this unlikely pair of heroes is about to stumble headfirst into a centuries-old conspiracy that will bring the whole of ancient history crashing down on the modern day Valiant Universe. And that?s going to mean one Hell of a hangover

Orson Gage is no good man. His wife's death thrusts the only kind of righteousness he's ever known upon him: Revenge! Her murderers must die. All of them! In Dead Boy Road, writer Justin Jordan (The Strange Talent of Luther Strode) and artist Matteo Scalera (Black Science) follow Gage on the dark road he's chosen to travel — a road that looks more and more like a highway to Hell!

GET SMASHED?OR BE SMASHED! Valiant?s (somewhat) dynamic duo are going ?IN THE BAG? for AN ALL-NEW ONGOING SERIES from rising star Rafer Roberts and comic book superstar David Lafuente! Meet Armstrong: Since the ancient city of Ur, this immortal adventurer has spent the last 7,000 years drinking and carousing his way through history alongside some of the greatest merrymakers the world has ever known. Meet Archer: A sheltered teenage martial arts master and expert marksman that was raised for a single purpose ? to kill the devil incarnate. Little did he know that this undying evil was actually Armstrong (he?s actually a pretty good guy?once you get to know him) and, since hitting the road together, the two have become great friends and even better partners. Now: Archer is about to set off on his most dangerous mission yet ? a quest into the mystic reaches of Armstrong?s bottomless satchel to liberate his friend and comrade from the clutches of the mad god Bacchus! (Okay, so, Armstrong went into the satchel himself to get a bottle of whiskey that he kinda misplaced and got stuck. It?s like the Amazon warehouse of arcane treasures in there?and he doesn?t exactly have a maid service.) Imprisoned in Armstrong?s satchel for centuries, Bacchus now commands a legion of monsters, goblins and golems bent on escaping back into the world of man and enacting revenge on their captor? Can Archer single-handedly combat the godly embodiment of intoxication himself ? and rescue his best buddy ? without becoming lost amongst Armstrong?s endless repository of bizarre artifacts and historical oddities in the process?

At last ? an oversized deluxe hardcover collecting the complete first year of Archer & Armstrong by New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (Amazing Spider-Man, Marvel Zombies)! Join one of the most acclaimed adventures in comics as naive teenage assassin Obadiah Archer and the fun-loving, hard-drinking immortal called Armstrong unite to stop a plot ten thousand years in the making! From the lost temples of ancient Sumeria to modern day Wall Street, Area 51, and beyond, Valiant?s conspiracy-smashing adventurers are going on a globe-trotting quest to bring the down the unholy coalition of cultists known as the Sect ? and stop each of history?s most notorious conspiracies from remaking the world in their own insane image. Collecting ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #0-13, the Archer & Amstrong Deluxe Editon oversized hardcover also comes jam-packed with more than 20+ pages of bonus features, including covers, character designs, and process art by Neal Adams, David Aja, Juan Doe, Tom Fowler, Clayton Henry, Emanuela Lupacchino and many more!