Valiant has announced that May’s X-O Manowar #25 – an oversized anniversary spectacular leading directly into June’s massive Armor Hunters crossover event – is adding even more creative firepower to an already jam-packed roster of superstar talents for X-O Manowar’s biggest milestone issue ever!

Joining previously solicited creators Robert Venditti, Diego Bernard, Bryan Hitch, J.G. Jones, Justin Jordan, and Rafer Roberts, Valiant is proud to add red-hot creators Cary Nord, Sean Chen, Tom Fowler, Barry Kitson, and Andy Runton to the all-star line-up!

X-O Manowr #25 is a perfect jumping on point with an all-new, full-length Armor Hunters prologue by Robert Venditti and Diego Bernard; the origin of X-O Manowar retold by Robert Venditti and J.G. Jones; a brand new five-page story by superstar artist Bryan Hitch; a new short story by Eisner Award winner Andy Runton; and much, much more!

A relentless and surgical strike team from the farthest reaches of space – sworn to exterminate the X-O Manowar armor and all like it – have found finally their last target. They will hunt it. They will trap it. They will kill it. And, soon, the Armor Hunters will rid the universe of the X-O Manowar’s incalculable destructive power…even if it means taking the Earth with it.

The issue also features covers by Jelena Kevic-Djurdjevic and Bryan Hitch, and incentive variants by Arturo Lozzi, Sean Chen and Terry Dodson!

X-O MANOWAR #25 (ARMOR HUNTERS PRELUDE)
Written by ROBERT VENDITTI with TOM FOWLER, JUSTIN JORDAN, and Many More!
Art by DIEGO BERNARD, SEAN CHEN, TOM FOWLER, BRYAN HITCH, J.G. JONES, BARRY KITSON, CARY NORD, RAFER ROBERTS, ANDY RUNTON, and Many More!
Cover by JELENA KEVIC-DJURDJEVIC and BRYAN HITCH (MAR141400/MAR141401)
Armors Variant by ARTURO LOZZI (MAR141402)
Throwback Variant by SEAN CHEN (MAR141403)
Variant Cover by TERRY DODSON (MAR141404)
$4.99/T+/48 pgs.
ON SALE 5/21/14 (FOC – 4/28/14)