The beginning of the all-new Valiant Universe starts here! Aric of Dacia is a brash warrior & heir to the throne of the Visigoth people He has lived his life under the heel of the Roman Empire but now a far more terrible enemy has come to subjugate him Taken from his home & family Aric is enslaved aboard a starship belonging to a brutal race of alien colonizers known as The Vine If he is to have any hope of escaping & returning to Earth he will have to steal the Vine's most powerful weapon
- a sentient suit of indestructible armor
- & become X-O Manowar! This volume collects the first four issues of the acclaimed breakout series by New York Times bestselling author Robert Venditti (The Surrogates The Homeland Directive) & Eisner Award-winning artist Cary Nord (Conan)!

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Agents of the alien race known as The Vine have been living in secret among us for centuries & now they just been activated for one final mission
- purge the Earth of all human life! An invasion fleet is on its way & the only weapon in existence powerful enough to defeat it is the X-O Manowar armor To pinpoint The Vine weaknesses Aric will need to enlist the help of the master weapons specialist charged with taking him down
- the feared & formidable Ninjak But first Aric will have to convince him that his masters in British Intelligence have sold humanity into the hands of the enemy

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Aric of Dacia a fifth century Visigoth armed with the universe most powerful weapon is all that stands between the Earth & all-out annihilation at the hands of the alien race that abducted him from his own time Now the day of Aric reckoning has finally come As his Visigoth forefathers sacked Rome Aric will take the battle directly to his oppressors on the Vine homeworld of Loam He will decimate their armies he will level their cities
- & he will not stop until the whole of their empire is reduced to ash This is PLANET DEATH! Collecting the complete Planet Death saga from X-O Manowar 9-14 by New York Times bestselling writer Robert Venditti (Green Lantern The Surrogates) & superstar artists Cary Nord (Conan) & Trevor Hairsine (X-Men Deadly Genesis) start reading here to find out why X-O Manowar's one-man revenge mission has IGN declaring X-O Manowar still kicks butt Bring on Planet Death!
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To this kinga kingdom With his nation state of Dacia fortified in eastern Romania X-O Manowar has bent the world to his will But he will not stand unopposed With the assembled forces of the United Nations & NATO primed to assail the newly founded homeland of the Visigoth people the man inside the indestructible Manowar armor is about find himself more vulnerable than ever
- & with everything he holds dear on the threshold of a terrible turning point for the Valiant Universe Collecting X-O Manowar 15-18 & featuring X-O Manowar's first explosive confrontation with the Eternal Warrior start reading here as New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti (Green Lantern) & acclaimed artist Lee Garbett (Batman RIP) launch a bold new era for the series that Super Hero Hype calls a must read
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X-O Manowar goes head-to-head against the forces of UNITY! Aric of Dacia has fought to reclaim the ancestral lands of the Visigoths
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Hunt it! Trap it! Kill it! The Armor Hunters are the most dangerous fighters in the galaxy
- unparalleled in their abilities to
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ARMORINES ATTACK! Since Aric of Dacia returned from the stars terror & destruction have followed in his wake
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Doomed by Dead Hand! In the far reaches of deep space the ultimate fail-safe of an extinct alien race has finally counted down to zero & the robot army called Dead Hand has been activated The civilization that built them has fallen & now to combat the doomsday threat that destroyed their world Dead Hand will complete the mission that their creators could not Soulless & brutal this billion-strong legion is the phantom army of a dead world & it will cleanse the universe by any means necessary But what unthinkable menace were they created to destroy? & will Dead Hand&s slow march across the galaxy spell death for countless worlds? The devastating cosmic showdown begins right here as New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti (Armor Hunters The Flash) & superstar-in-the-making Diego Bernard (Red Lanterns) take X-O Manowar face-to-face with a robot army hellbent on the destruction of everything! Collecting X-O Manowar 33-37 ...

From New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti (BOOK OF DEATH The Flash) & all-star artists Diego Bernard (Red Lanterns) & Doug Braithwaite (NINJAK) comes the next oversized volume collecting the series IGN calls “fantastic action-packed storytelling that never fails to satisfy" as X-O Manowar begins his greatest challenge yet! Aric of Dacia a fifth-century warrior bonded to alien armor & transplanted to the modern day is now the most important weapon in the arsenal of MERO the top-secret American intelligence organization that monitors extraterrestrial life on Earth In order to protect his people Aric must undergo dangerous missions in space but nothing can prepare him for the stunning secret that awaits him in the stars The Armor Hunters are coming They have sworn to rid the universe of the X-O Manowar armor’s incalculable destructive power & they have found their final target Earth will be the greatest hunt of all… & the fight for survival begins here Featuring backup stories from an all-star cast of comic book superstars – including Sean Chen (Iron Man) Tom Fowler (QUANTUM & WOODY) Bryan Hitch (The Ultimates) JG Jones (Final Crisis) Barry Kitson (Amazing Spider-Man) Cary Nord (Conan) & many more – the pulse-pounding storyline that redefines Valiant&s flagship hero is collected here in a prestige-sized hardcover packed with 20 pages of rarely seen bonus materials & special features! Collecting X-O MANOWAR 23–29 & ARMOR HUNTERS 1–4 ...

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Includes:: 30 aircraft from gliders to the Space Shuttle Online flying with other virtual pilots Air Traffic Control actually controls the other aircraft around you Accurate terrain roads & more Global & Plausible World& auto generated scenery New rendering engine with innovative global lighting 64 Bit optimised Totally flexible & extendable with thousands of existing add-ons (and many more to come) Printed manuals are included Quick Start Guide for a fast-track entry to this complex simulator Contains Frankfurt-Hahn Toulouse & Lugano DLC

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