"Valiant" Armor Hunters
The ARMOR HUNTERS are coming! A relentless and surgical strike team from the farthest reaches of space – sworn to exterminate the X-O armor and all like it – have found their final target. They will hunt. They will trap. They will kill. And they will rid the universe of the X-O Manowar's incalculable destructive power... even if it means taking the Earth with it.
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"Valiant" Armor Hunters
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Armor Hunters is an 19-issues crossover event featuring many of the Valiant characters and focusing on a group of alien warriors in pursuit of all powered armor, like the X-O Manowar Armor suit, with only one goal - to destroy it and its bearer!
Team
The main Armor Hunters team consists of squad leader Primary Reebo and members Helix (a digital being in physical form), Quartz (the muscle), Lilt (the adviser), GIN_GR (a giant robot that serves as operation center and spaceship), and formerly Mopp (the field technician). Not part of the actual team nonetheless trying to find the X-O armor on its own is the vicious alien humanoid Malgam, once host to the armor himself he is desperate to find and bond with it again.
Reading Order
Prelude to Armor Hunters
- X-O Manowar #23-24 - Aric finds and figths Malgam on Earth's moon.
- X-O Manowar #25 - Self-contained story called "The Armor Hunters in 'Burial'" focusing on the hunters exclusively and what they do. This story shows what happened before and after then end of #24.
Armor Hunters
The event begins with Armor Hunters #1 and the main story is told in the Armor Hunters mini-series. The story in X-O Manowar provides the backstory of the hunters themselves. The other three tie-ins are not necessary but provide extra information about the involvement of Unity, Bloodshot, and Harbinger, and help filling some gaps.
Recommended reading order:
- Armor Hunters #1
- Unity #8
- X-O Manowar #26
- Armor Hunters #2
- Unity #9
- Armor Hunters: Bloodshot #1
- Armor Hunters: Harbinger #1
- X-O Manowar #27
- Armor Hunters #3
- Unity #10
- Armor Hunters: Bloodshot #2
- Armor Hunters: Harbinger #2
- X-O Manowar #28
- Armor Hunters: Bloodshot #3
- Armor Hunters: Harbinger #3
- Unity #11
- Armor Hunters #4
- X-O Manowar #29*
- Armor Hunters: Aftermath #1
*There is an explicit note "Do Not Read Before Armor Hunters #4!"
Collected Editions
- Armor Hunters (Armor Hunters #1-4, Armor Hunters: Aftermath #1)
- Armor Hunters: Bloodshot (Armor Hunters: Bloodshot #1-3, Bloodshot #0*)
- Armor Hunters: Deluxe Edition (Armor Hunters #1-4, Armor Hunters: Aftermath #1, Armor Hunters: Bloodshot #1-3, Armor Hunters: Harbinger #1-3, Unity #8-11, X-O Manowar #23-29, and 20+ pages of bonus content)
- Armor Hunters: Harbinger (Armor Hunters: Harbinger #1-3, Harbinger Wars #1*)
- Unity: Armor Hunters (Unity #8-11)
- X-O Manowar: Prelude to Armor Hunters (X-O Manowar #23-25)
- X-O Manowar: Armor Hunters (X-O Manowar #26-29)
Note: Issues marked with * are not part of the event.
