Adam Reed himself says that Archer occurs in an alternate timeline, and it's not a bad explanation. It's a world where the KGB is alive and well, where company computers are the ugly beige boxes with green screens, and yet are capable of playing TV-quality video. High-resolution satellite photography is matched with tape drives larger than the refrigerators you grew up with. Woodhouse served in the King's African Rifles, and yet was a teen by the time of the Great War. (This would make him remarkably ancient by 2011. Dead, even.) And let's not even begin with the cellular phones.

These clashing details would drive an art director insane. Instead, Adam Reed has embraced the insanity and given us a visually rich cartoon whose visual details cause both intrigue and a comfortable sense of unfamiliarity.

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