Valiant is proud to present an advance preview of X-O Manowar #16 from New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti and fan favorite artist Lee Garbett! Before UNITY arrives this November, witness the march toward the comic book event of 2013 as X-O Manowar claims a sovereign nation as his own – and incites the wrath of the world’s most feared warrior!

X-O Manowar and the Eternal Warrior. Once they were brothers-in-arms, comrades sworn to the same cause. But now that X-O Manowar has occupied the ancestral lands of his people in modern day Romania, they’ll find themselves on opposing sides of a battle for the very fate of civilization itself. As the world watches, two of Valiant’s most fearsome heroes will meet once again – and the outcome of their latest clash will decide the fate of us all.

He dismantled the Italian military. He crushed MI-6. He annihilated Planet Death. Now find out find out why X-O Manowar is the universal threat behind the war that’s coming in X-O Manowar #16, on sale August 21st!

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X-O MANOWAR #16

Written by ROBERT VENDITTI

Art by LEE GARBETT

Cover by PATRICK ZIRCHER (JUN131323)

Variant Cover by DAVE BULLOCK (JUN131323)

$3.99/T+/32 pgs.

ON SALE 8/21/13