X-O Manowar vol 3 # 47 2016 Long Live The King, Part One: The Face Of Gods pg 8 by Joe Bennett & Marcio Loerzer

X-O Manowar vol 3 # 47 June 2016
Inks over pencil on 14 x 22 art board
Long Live The King, Part One: The Face Of Gods pg 8
Pencils: Joe Bennett
Inks: Marcio Loerzer
Writer: Robert Venditti (Signed lower left)

ALL-NEW ARC! ALL-NEW JUMPING-ON POINT! The march toward the greatest Valiant milestone of all time starts here as X-O Manowar begins "LONG LIVE THE KING"! They are The Torment - and their name means death. Thought to be a legend by the extraterrestrial empire called the Vine, they have now become Earth's violent reality. They have traveled for eons to reach us?in search of Aric of Dacia, the unstoppable X-O Manowar. How can Aric of Dacia defeat an omnipotent threat nearly as old as the universe itself? Will the X-O Manowar armor truly be our world's salvation, just as the Vine's myths foretold? Is this the beginning of the end for X-O Manowar?or the beginning of something bigger?

At first I did not like how the X-O Manowar armor changed all of a sudden. The helmet, gauntlets, boots all changed drastically between Robert Gill and Joe Bennett's art run, issues # 46 to 47 of vol. 3. In the next volume of X-O, Tomas Giorello changes the armor yet again but it is explained later that the suit evolved and is constantly evolving after spending extended time in deep space and on an alien planet. Now the X-O Manowar armor looks more like it did in the '90's BWS and Layton era in the legs, waist, and gauntlets. Aric is back on Earth for the first time since his wife told him to leave after there son died from radiation given off by the armor. Aric has returned to the world/ life he gave up after receiving a distress call from one of his former Unity team mates (Livewire). Will Aric be friend or foe in the upcoming Harbinger Wars II conflict.