X-O Manowar Issue 10

Cover for X-O Manowar Issue 10

Published: November 1992
Writer: Bob Layton
Penciler: Mike Leeke (Issue & Cover)
Inker: Tom Ryder (Issue & Cover)
Colorist: Jorge Gonzalez (Issue & Cover)
Additional Colorists: Mike Cavallaro, David Chlystek & Maria Beccari
Letterer: Ken Lopez
Editor: Barry Windsor-Smith

Title: Homecoming Part 2: Takeover
Synopsis: On May 8, 1992, a tree falls on the grounds of Orb Industries. Aric's 2nd in Command, Ken Clarkson, helps him out of the hole. After two months of rest and physical therapy, the Spider-Aliens invade Aric's mansion. But when he calls the armor to him, it looks different than before.

X-O Manowar Issue 9

Cover of X-O Manowar Issue 9

X-O Manowar Issue 9
Published: October 1992
Writer: Bob Layton
Penciler: Mike Leeke (Issue & Cover)
Inker: Tom Ryder (Issue & Cover)
Colorist: Jorge Gonzalez
Letterer: Ken Lopez
Editor: Barry Windsor-Smith

Title: Besieged: Homecoming Part 1
Synopsis: Aric is transported to Earth in 408AD, and aids his Visigoth tribe in fighting the Romans. But they fear his power, and conspire with the Romans to kill him. His love Dierdre dies amid the fighting. Heartbroken, Aric blasts a hole deep in the ground, and buries himself in dirt and darkness.

X-O Manowar Issue 8

Cover of X-O Manowar Issue 8

Published: September 1992
Cover Artist: Walt Simonson
Writer: Bob Layton
Penciller: Mike Leeke
Inker: Tom Ryder
Colorist: Jorge Gonzalez
Additional Colorists: Mark Csaszar, Maurice Fontenot
Letterer: Ken Lopez
Editor: Jim Shooter

Title: Unity Chapter 13: Crossroads
Summary: Aric leads his army of Skammrs in an assault on the Mother God's fortress. After the battle, a dinosaur catches him without his armor and bites him in half. The X-O armor envelops him, and puts him to sleep. He awakes amid the bodies of his devastated army, and the X-O armor informs him that years have passed while it knitted his body back together.

X-O Manowar Issue 7

Cover of X-O Manowar Issue 7

Published: August 1992
Cover Artist: Frank Miller
Writer: Bob Layton
Penciller: Michael Leeke
Inker: Tom Ryder
Colorist: Jorge Gonzalez
Letterer: Ken Lopez
Editor: Jim Shooter

Title: A Call To Arms (Chapter 5 of the Unity crossover event)
Summary: With the help of some renegade Harbinger kids, young Geoff McHenry (a Geomancer), and a hand from Solar, Man of the Atom, Aric is transported to the Lost Land. There he faces cybernetic-enhanced pterodactyls, rescues prisoners from being eaten by dinosaurs, and wrests the leadership of a barbarian race of warriors called Skammrs from the Mother God who oversees the world out of space and time.