Volume 4: X-O Manowar Issue #3

X-O Manowar Volume 4: Issue #3
Cover B by Kenneth Rocafort

Volume 4: X-O Manowar Issue #3
Published: May 2017

Writer: Matt Kindt
Artists: Tomas Giorello, David Mack, and Zu Orzu
Colorist: Diego Rodriguez
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Assistant Editors: Charlotte Greenbaum and Robert Meyers
Editor: Warren Simons

Title: Soldier
Synopsis: Aric and his strike team have accomplished their mission of lowering the Cadmium city's shields, and have taken the tower to disrupt the link with the spaceships in orbit. At this point, they are ideally located to capture the Cadmium president and end the war. Instead, the Azure Captain who sent him on this mission decides to bombard the city with heavy weaponry, and the Cadmium president escapes. 

After the battle, Aric and the Azure Captain take their grievances to their General. The blue-skinned General congratulates them both, but agrees that they cannot have dissension in the ranks. So he promotes Aric to Captain, and ends the other's military career, shall we say, rather abruptly. That evening, Aric consults with Shanhara through the ring he fashioned from a small part of the sentient armor. Shanhara points out that trouble doesn't find him, nor does Aric use the armor to flee his problems. When trouble comes, he uses the armor to confront it. He is a warrior, destined to never know a life of peace. He must reconcile himself with that.