{"id":282,"date":"2017-01-23T21:19:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T21:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiralcomics.com\/blog\/?p=282"},"modified":"2017-11-07T11:58:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T19:58:18","slug":"first-impression-x-o-manowar-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiralcomics.com\/blog\/first-impression-x-o-manowar-1\/","title":{"rendered":"First Impression: X-O MANOWAR #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-283 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spiralcomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/JAN172113-X-O-MANOWAR-2017-1-CVR-A-LAROSA-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiralcomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/JAN172113-X-O-MANOWAR-2017-1-CVR-A-LAROSA-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/spiralcomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/JAN172113-X-O-MANOWAR-2017-1-CVR-A-LAROSA-768x1180.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spiralcomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/JAN172113-X-O-MANOWAR-2017-1-CVR-A-LAROSA-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/spiralcomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/JAN172113-X-O-MANOWAR-2017-1-CVR-A-LAROSA.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think <em>X-O Manowar<\/em> has a superhero origin story as strong as any other first-tier hero from the big two companies. \u00a0Someday I&#8217;ll see it on the big screen. Until then, I&#8217;ll continue to enjoy the comics. You should check them out too!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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&#8230;only to find himself stranded in the modern day.<\/p>\n<p>But that was a lifetime ago.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think X-O Manowar has a superhero origin story as strong as any other first-tier hero from the big two companies. \u00a0Someday I&#8217;ll see it on the big screen. Until then, I&#8217;ll continue to enjoy the comics. You should check them out too! &#8220;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&#8230;only to find himself stranded in the modern day. But that was a lifetime ago. 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