X-O Manowar Issue 12

Cover for X-O Manowar Issue 12

X-O Manowar Issue 12
Published: January 1993
Cover Artists: Mike Leeke, Tom Ryder
Writer: Bob Layton
Penciller: Mike Leeke
Inker: Tom Ryder
Colorist: Jorge Gonzalez
Letterer: Ken Lopez
Editor: Kevin VanHook

Title: Moonstruck: Seed of Destruction Part 2
Synopsis: The armor takes him to the moon, where Aric finds a base filled with 67,000 Spider-Aliens. The armor informs him that it reproduces every two thousand years, and as it put him to sleep for so many centuries to return him to the present day, it is returning to its own kind to birth a new set of armor. At the base he meets Rexo, a soldier crippled in Vietnam. The Spider-Aliens befriended him, and gave him his own set of armor. Rexo tells him that his armor is not only sentient, but it has a name: Shanhara. He shows Aric an arena filled with human hostages, and demands Aric give up the X-O armor. When Aric refuses, Rexo kills the hostages. Aric fights for his life, kills Rexo and many Spider-Aliens, but he is outnumbered. He flees back to space, but the Spider-Aliens follow. Even in their less powerful armor, they capture him.