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With the latest (and not exactly appealing) stuff going on with Marvel and DC in the comics front, I've been drawn to the young upstart/resurrected Valiant Universe of comics.

More or less the flagship character of the brand, rivaled probably only by fellow character Bloodshot, the story of the Manowar armor and it's current wielder is quite the interesting one.

Born Aric of Dacia in the year 402 A.D., after a disastrous attempt to defeat the Romans... Aric gets captured by mysterious individuals he originally mistakes for Romans... they are in fact alien spider-humanoids called 'the Vine'. After years of hard labor as a slave to them, Aric manages to lead a revolt that leads him to a mysterious armor known only (in reverance) as 'Shanhara' to his captors. It is an object of incredible power that has yet (after centuries) to pick a new wielder. To the Vine's absolute shock, the armor bonds with him, a human. After blasting his way to freedom, Aric returns to Earth... only to find out that (due to time dilation) 1,600 years have passed since he was captured... stranding him in the 21st Century. Unfortunately the Vine aren't willing to lose their sacred relic to a human, and soon Aric finds himself the target of their attempts to reclaim it, and when that fails... destroy it AND Earth.

So now the world is being defended by (quite possibly) the most powerful weapon in the galaxy... and it's wielded by a man from the pre-Dark Ages. This is only going to get more interesting. And crazy.

I really dig the design of the revamped Manowar armor. So I tried to make a sprite for him, which proved challenging. Made it using Captain Commando, Iron Man and M. Bison parts.

X-O Manowar belongs to Valiant Entertainment.

Description
With the latest (and not exactly appealing) stuff going on with Marvel and DC in the comics front, I've been drawn to the young upstart/resurrected Valiant Universe of comics.

More or less the flagship character of the brand, rivaled probably only by fellow character Bloodshot, the story of the Manowar armor and it's current wielder is quite the interesting one.

Born Aric of Dacia in the year 402 A.D., after a disastrous attempt to defeat the Romans... Aric gets captured by mysterious individuals he originally mistakes for Romans... they are in fact alien spider-humanoids called 'the Vine'. After years of hard labor as a slave to them, Aric manages to lead a revolt that leads him to a mysterious armor known only (in reverance) as 'Shanhara' to his captors. It is an object of incredible power that has yet (after centuries) to pick a new wielder. To the Vine's absolute shock, the armor bonds with him, a human. After blasting his way to freedom, Aric returns to Earth... only to find out that (due to time dilation) 1,600 years have passed since he was captured... stranding him in the 21st Century. Unfortunately the Vine aren't willing to lose their sacred relic to a human, and soon Aric finds himself the target of their attempts to reclaim it, and when that fails... destroy it AND Earth.

So now the world is being defended by (quite possibly) the most powerful weapon in the galaxy... and it's wielded by a man from the pre-Dark Ages. This is only going to get more interesting. And crazy.

I really dig the design of the revamped Manowar armor. So I tried to make a sprite for him, which proved challenging. Made it using Captain Commando, Iron Man and M. Bison parts.

X-O Manowar belongs to Valiant Entertainment.