NEWS WATCH: VALIANT Reveals X-O MANOWAR #1 Sword of Shanhara Variant Covers!

By Mike Eakins

 on March 3, 2020

X-O MANOWAR features exciting “Sword of Shanhara” 1:25 variant covers by all-star artists!

The debut issue by Harvey Award-winner DENNIS “HOPELESS” HALLUM (Star Wars: Darth Vader – Dark Visions) and breakout star artist EMILIO LAISO (Marvel’s Spider-Man: Velocity) goes on sale in just three weeks (March 25th), and it will feature a jaw-dropping 1:25 variant by ERICA HENDERSON. Issues #2-#4 will have their own special “Sword of Shanhara” variants by DANIEL WARREN JOHNSON, DUSTIN WEAVER, and MICHAEL WALSH!

As if the artwork alone wasn’t amazing enough, special treatment will be applied to X-O Manowar’s energy sword on each cover to make it pop! Feast your eyes on the stunning artwork below.

X-O MANOWAR #2 1:25 Cover by Daniel Warren Johnson

X-O MANOWAR #3 1:25 Cover by Dustin Weave

X-O MANOWAR #4 1:25 Cover by Michael Walsh

The X-O MANOWAR 1:25 “Sword of Shanhara” Variants are 1:25 covers, meaning comic shops will receive one with every qualifying order of 25 copies of X-O MANOWAR. If you want to add these phenomenal covers to your collection, contact your local comic shop and tell them you want the X-O MANOWAR “Sword of Shanhara” Variant Covers!

The blockbuster adventure begins in X-O MANOWAR #1 on March 25th, 2020, featuring colors by Ruth Redmond and letters by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.

• Harvey Award-winning writer Dennis “Hopeless” Hallum (Star Wars: Darth Vader – Dark Visions) and breakout star Emilio Laiso (Marvel’s Spider-Man: Velocity) unleash Valiant’s most powerful protector!
• Torn from the past and bonded with a living alien armor, will X-O Manowar become the hero the world needs now?
• As a futuristic force arises to destroy the planet, only this ancient warrior king has the courage to stand against impossible odds!