Nerd Culture Podcast

Welcome to the fortieth instalment of Who Review, my ongoing quest to review all available episodes of TV’s longest running SF series, Doctor Who. This week, the Doctor makes his first post-exile journey in Carnival of Monsters.

EPISODES

Carnival of Monsters

BROADCAST DATES

27 January – 17 February 1973 (4 episodes)

THE DOCTOR

Jon Pertwee

THE COMPANIONS

Jo Grant

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Calling all Melbourne Pop Culture fans!

Get ready to set Phasers to Fun  (yeah, I went there) and jump to Warp Factor over 9000! (yeah I know I mixed franchises – don’t judge me!)  because Captain James T Kirk himself – Mr William Shatner – is coming to Oz Comic-Con!!!

Melbourne fans thought they were going to miss out when he was only confirmed for Perth & Adelaide, but apparently he loves us so much he’s coming back!

If you didn’t already have enough reasons to go to this year’s Oz Comic-Con, with their amazing line up of guests, then you definitely do now 🙂

We’ll be there (I wouldn’t miss this for anything) and we hope you’ll be there too.

July 6th & 7th can’t come fast enough!

Tickets on sale now, full details on the site.

Hi All!

Just a reminder about our awesome competition Name that Game.

Thanks to the awesome guys at All Star Comics Melbourne you can win the first 5 Dark Tower hardcovers!

All you need to do to win this awesome prize is name the boardgame that Joel couldn’t remember in our Tabletop games discussion on our latest podcast #51.

For those of you who missed it here is that bit:

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Be the first to correctly name that game and you win! Entries close midnight June 8th (EST)!

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Good luck!

For my review this week I am looking at Archer & Armstrong Issue 0 (2013), an ongoing series published by Valiant Comics.

I started my comics reading journey at a very good time as not long afterwards, Valiant came out with the Summer of Valiant Initiative which involved the release of four new ongoing series:

1. Harbinger
2. X-O Manowar
3. Bloodshot
4. Archer & Armstrong

At the moment I am reading Bloodshot and Archer & Armstrong on a monthly basis and I must say that every issue I have read has been excellent. Great story telling and the artwork has been exceptional.

Archer & Armstrong is my favourite of the Valiant titles I have read so far.  The best way I can describe Archer & Armstrong is The Odd Couple + action + saving the world and it = awesome.

Archer is a naive teenager who has lived a very sheltered life in a religious compound.Armstrong is an immortal larrikin who loves a drink and a laugh and has been around since before AD 529. They run into each other not long after Archer comes to realise that his parents are not who they appear to be.

Issue 0 is written by Fred Van Lente with art by Clayton Henry and colours by David Baron.  The plot for this issue is a comic re-telling of the poem the Epic of Gilgamesh. While not a complete origin story the issue explains some of Armstrong’s history.

I really enjoyed this issue of Archer & Armstrong. Being a one-shot of sorts it did not take long for the story to kick off and Armstrong acting as the narrator to the story was hilarious. The artwork in the issue was also of a very high quality. The landscapes were beautifully drawn and the action scenes looked great (ie, I knew what was happening).

If you are interested in reading Archer & Armstrong I recommend going back and starting from issue 1 and reading through to issue 9 then reading issue 0. That being said, this issue was great.

4/5 Lukes

If you do like this issue and are interested in reading more Valiant titles, Issue 1 of the new series Quantum and Woody (The World’s Worst Super Hero Team) starts in July. So that is a good chance to start a new series from the beginning.

I would love to hear your feedback on Archer & Armstrong and any other Valiant titles. Please comment below or you can contact me via Twitter @bennykane1983.

For my next review I will be looking at Blackacre Volume 1: An Errand into the Wilderness published by Image.

Benny