War is coming! Born under the oppressive thumb of the Roman Empire, Aric of Dacia learned warfare at an early age. It was amid such violence that he was abducted by an alien race. Forced into slavery, he survived where others perished. His escape would come from bonding with a weapon of immeasurable power: the X-O Manowar armor. With it, he returned to Earth? only to find himself stranded in the modern day. But that was a lifetime ago. Now, far from home on a strange and primitive new world, Aric has begun a new life. Liberated from his past, he tends to his crops. Free from war. Free from violence. Free from the armor. But the machinery of death marches his way once again. Conscripted into an alien army and thrown into an unforgiving conflict, the fury inside him finds voice as he is forced to embrace the armor once more. With it, he will decimate armies, topple empires and incite interplanetary warfare as he rises from SOLDIER to GENERAL to EMPEROR to VISIGOTH. They wanted a weapon. He will give them war! Join master storytellers Matt Kindt (Divinity) and Tom?s Giorello (Bloodshot Reborn) right here for a stunning new beginning for Valiant?s most enduring icon. Collecting X-O MANOWAR (2017) #1?3 with more than 30 pages of rarely seen art and extras!

A battle-scarred mission from Aric of Dacia?s youth? Before space? Before the armor? Return to the apex of the Visigoth conquest as a younger, brasher Aric and a sword-wielding grifter set off on a continent-spanning quest for fortune, glory, and power! From the bloodstained sands of the gladiatorial arena to the dunes of the Arabian Desert, meet the man who would become the warrior-king of an alien civilization ? and our own world?s most powerful hero ? as he sets out to seize his destiny once upon a time in a land of faraway kings and unrepentant conquerors! Jump on board one of the most acclaimed series in comics here as New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (HARBINGER WARS 2, Mind MGMT) and blockbuster artist Trevor Hairsine (ETERNITY) ? the best-selling team behind the DIVINITY trilogy ? reunite for a thrilling melee of blood and steely-eyed daring at the height of ?the barbarian age with a brutal new chapter in the epic saga of X-O Manowar! Collecting X-O MANOWAR (2017) #15?18.

From SOLDIER to GENERAL to EMPEROR...to OUTCAST! Aric of Dacia?s bone-crushing climb to the throne of an alien world earned him scores of allies?and a legion of scorned enemies. Now, stripped of his crown and cast out of his kingdom, the man known as X-O Manowar must return to his roots as a sword-wielding warrior of Earth if he is to survive the relentless band of intergalactic bounty hunters that have been hired to kill him cold. But with few places left to turn, could the last Visigoth?s best hope be the all-powerful?but insidious?weapon he once swore away: the X-O Manowar armor? X-O MANOWAR?s whirlwind first year in the Valiant Universe comes to a climax here in a bold new volume from New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (DIVINITY, Mind MGMT) and explosive artists Ryan Bodenheim (The Dying & The Dead) and Ariel Olivetti (Incredible Hulk)! Collecting X-O MANOWAR (2017) #11?14.

X-O Manowar?s path to domination darkens as blockbuster artist Doug Braithwaite (ARMOR HUNTERS) joins New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (DIVINITY, Mind MGMT) for the perfect planet-shaking continuation of Valiant?s biggest series yet! In the fires of victory, a soldier becomes? a general. With the hostile Cadmium army crushed beneath his force?s boots, Aric of Dacia now commands an entire fleet into the final battle for the soul of an empire. But as a new dawn rises across this unrelenting alien world, what vicious new menace will come forth to greet it? Collecting X-O MANOWAR (2017) #4-6.

The ultimate turning point! A war has been won, a victory has been decided? and now, an entire alien world kneels before the throne of their new leader: the unstoppable X-O MANOWAR! He has traded his armor for a crown and a new age now begins? even as an extraterrestrial invader readies an interplanetary attack that could pull Aric of Dacia from the newfound safety of his imperial palace and back into the blood-sodden battlefields where his conquest began. Comics superstar Clayton Crain (4001 A.D., RAI) joins New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (RAPTURE,?Mind MGMT) to summit the next pinnacle of 2017?s best-selling independent superhero series ? and unleash a blistering, new interstellar opus chronicling the most powerful moment yet in the history of Valiant?s unrelenting icon! Collecting?X-O MANOWAR (2017) #7?10.

The Agents of G.A.T.E. vs. the Brothers of the Bomb! Beyond time, space, and reality, there lies the Unknown?and now it?s coming here! When soldiers from a mysterious foreign realm arrive on Earth, it?s up to the armored Visigoth known as X-O Manowar ? newly returned to the planet and now the leader of his own elite G.A.T.E. unit ? to deal with the intrusion. But are these otherworldly emissaries truly the threat they appear to be, or does a larger danger loom over the Valiant Universe still? Worlds collide as Eisner Award-nominated writer Matt Kindt (ETERNITY, Grass Kings) and incendiary artist Juan Jos? Ryp (BRITANNIA) bring a new plane of existence crashing down upon our own in a brand-new jumping-on point for 2017?s best-selling series! Collecting X-O MANOWAR (2017) #19?22.

The past catches up with Earth?s Visigoth guardian! Aric of Dacia may have left Planet Gorin behind, but its people still remember the ruin they felt in his wake?and so do the bounty hunters who sought to end his barbaric reign! Now, they?ve arrived on our world to finish the job they started ? and this time, they don?t plan on taking X-O Manowar alive! Collecting X-O MANOWAR (2017) #23?26.