Noob has trouble making an archives page

After several months of trying to learn how to work with WordPress (and having learned very little) I think I’m close to finishing my comics website.

The front page is mostly done. Congrats me.

I think I should mention I’m doing all this with WAMP. Localhost.

Now I’m trying to make an archives page, and can’t.
Here’s what I did:

– Went to “Pages”, added a new one
– Named it, but put a different name in the permalink. It’s now “comics-gallery”. Not sure if this matters (but something strange happens, when I hover over it the link shows up as “localhost/localhost/comics-gallery”… :S )
– In “Page Attributes”, “Parent” is blank, and the only options in “Template” are default and blog.

I wouldn’t mind having even just a simple generic archive like the one on PoorlyDrawnLines, although I’d like to have one that could list characters somehow.