X-O Manowar Issue 0

Cover for X-O Manowar Issue 0

X-O Manowar Issue 0
Published: August 1993
Cover Artists: Joe Quesada, Jimmy Palmiotti, & John Cebollero
Writers: Bob Layton & Jorge Gonzalez
Penciler: Joe Quesada
Inker: Jimmy Palmiotti
Colorist: John Cebollero
Letterer: Ken Lopez
Editor: Kevin VanHook

Title: Retribution Prologue
Synopsis: This origin story transports us to 399AD, when we meet Aric as a boy, and watch an event that prompts him to become a leader in the Dacians fight against the Romans. Then it jumps forward a decade, when he meets Diedre, who will become the love of his life. Months later, the Spider-Aliens attack Aric's group, and imprison him in their spaceship. Ultimately, we learn how Aric found the X-O ring which gave him control of the X-O Manowar armor, as well as the involvement of Solar, Man of the Atom, who unknowingly provided the Aric the opportunity to do so.