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VALIANT Comic

X-O MANOWAR (Chromium Cover) #0

DESCRIPTION: This is X-O Manowar, Monthly #0 (Origin Issue) by VALIANT. This volume was purchased from Mayhem Comics in Ames, IA when it was brand new. They carefully board and bag all new issues and then seal them, The back of the bag was torn so I replaced it. As far as I can tell it's never been read. I took this and about 30 other graphic novels and comics back to Mayhem and their expert rated them for me. His evaluation was that the book is in NM Condition.

Writer: Bob Layton & Jorge Gonzalez, Penciler/Cover: Joe Quesada, Inker: Jimmy Palmiotti, Colorer: John Cebollero.

ORIGIN: Aric of Dacia was a man in a barbarian society which was at war with the Romans. While he was away from his village one day, Aric was abducted by a malevolent race of spider-like aliens known as the Spider-Aliens, a race which controlled a vast star empire. Aric was to be a food source for the Spider-Aliens and was imprisoned with many other humans who were doomed to the same fate. Aric encountered one man known as "Map-Maker" who showed Aric a way of escape via the Spider-Aliens' most powerful weapon, the X-O Manowar armor, a sentient suit of armor which could decimate legions of its user's enemies. The path to the armor was carved into Aric's hand.

When the Spider Aliens returned to Earth, Aric's prison was disrupted by an attack from a being known as Solar. Aric quickly made his way to the X-O armor and bonded with it, quickly escaping the ship. Upon returning to Earth, Aric learns that thousands of years have passed since his abduction, although it has merely seemed like months to him. This was due to the fact that the Aliens were using a relativistic propulsion drive; while the inhabitants of the ship were moving at incredible speeds, time passed more slowly for them.

Aric quickly discovered that the Spider-Aliens had established a powerful beachhead on Earth through the company known as Orb. Aric destroyed the aliens in charge of the company and, using the suit's inherent technological abilities, hacked the computers to show that one Aric Dacia now was the owner and CEO of Orb.

The suit Aric wears grants him many abilities, including Super-Strength, Flight, energy projection, telekinetic abilities and heightened senses and is controlled via a ring emblazoned with an X inside an O. The suit eventually was destroyed, but was replaced with another, more advanced and non-sentient XO suit. Aric was torn from the first by a massive attack against him, but what was left of the armor bonded to him and released its sentience in order for Aric to survive. The second suit, as stated above, has no true snetience of its own.

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