The relaunch of X-O Manowar in March is bringing about some big changes for both the title character and comic book publisher Valiant Comics, starting with a big status quo shakeup.
“2017 is X-O Manowar’s 25th anniversary and
had an intriguing idea,” Valiant CEO and Chief Creative Officer Dinesh Shamdasani told IGN. “Instead of celebrating with a return to Aric’s status quo, let’s make the character a truly cosmic force to be reckoned with and thrust him into a whole new scenario – a lone human, bonded to an alien weapon, forced to fight on a hostile yet exotic extraterrestrial world. Matt and the five-strong art team of Tomas Giorello, Doug Braithwaite, Clayton Crain, Ryan Bodenheim, and Mico Suayan are doing something we haven’t seen yet with this character – making him a literal ‘man of war’ that’s about to take on not just an army, but an entire planet, over the course of 2017.”
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“2017 is X-O Manowar’s 25th anniversary and
had an intriguing idea,” Valiant CEO and Chief Creative Officer Dinesh Shamdasani told IGN. “Instead of celebrating with a return to Aric’s status quo, let’s make the character a truly cosmic force to be reckoned with and thrust him into a whole new scenario – a lone human, bonded to an alien weapon, forced to fight on a hostile yet exotic extraterrestrial world. Matt and the five-strong art team of Tomas Giorello, Doug Braithwaite, Clayton Crain, Ryan Bodenheim, and Mico Suayan are doing something we haven’t seen yet with this character – making him a literal ‘man of war’ that’s about to take on not just an army, but an entire planet, over the course of 2017.”
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