X-O Manowar shines bright in an all-new anthology hardcover featuring stories from every era of Valiant Comics!

Alien Books and Valiant Comics are proud to be teaming up once again to release a special anthology hardcover starring the pillar of the Valiant Comics franchise: X-O MANOWAR, debuting first on Kickstarter.

The crowdfunding campaign for the X-O MANOWAR: BLACK, WHITE & GOLD Hardcover Anthology, featuring all-new stories set in every era of Valiant Comics history, launched last week during New York Comic Con. The final crowdfunding project from Alien Books to debut in 2025 is 335% funded with only 14 days left remaining.

The stories included in the anthology will follow Aric of Dacia, a Visigoth warrior with a code of honor, who was abducted by aliens and returned to Earth with the Shanhara armor, the most powerful weapon in the universe. Aric finds that the Earth he returns to is very different from the one he left as over 2000 years have passed him by and he now struggles to find his place in this strange and unfamiliar world. This anthology will explore different eras of Aric’s past, present, and future from an assortment of perennial favorites and up-and-coming comics talent, all told in black, white and gold colors.

Backers can choose from exclusive rewards including digital PDFs, an original sketch by artist Damian Connelly, and the NYCC-exclusive foil variant of VALIANT BEYOND: THE X-O MANOWAR #1, while supplies last.

The 112-page hardcover (page count subject to change depending on stretch goal progress), will include the following stories and creators:

• Kickstarter-Exclusive Main Cover: Noobovich
• Pin-up illustrations: Luca Merli, Renato Guedes, Dustin Nguyen, Rafael Albuquerque, Guillermo Fajardo
• “From 9 to 5” – Script/Art: Shintaro Kago
• “Never Ending Battle” – Script: Marc Guggenheim, Art: Leo Lujan
• “Forced Combat” – Script: Alex Segura, Art: Kristian Rossi
• “TBD” – Script: Ron Marz, Art: Bart Sears
• “Routine Containment Operations” – Script: Dan Abnett, Art: Sid Kotian
• “Visigoth Therapy” -Script: Peter Milligan, Art: Sebastian Cabrol
• “Rome Can Starve” – Script: AJ Ampadu, Art: Rafael Ortiz
• “My Heart’s Keeper” – Script: Derek Fridolfs, Art: Stefano Martino
• “The Day Off” – Script: Kevin Roditeli, Art: Javier Ortiz
• “X-O Manowar Vs. The World” – Script: Louis Southard, Art: Andres Ponce
• “TBD” – Script: Mike Baron, Art: Pedro Andreo
• “Dark Matter” – Script/Art: Roberto Meli
• “Sect Wars” – Script: Sean Lewis, Art: Ignacio Lazaro
• “The Golden Knight Cult – Script: Adriano Barone & Luca Blengino, Art: German Erramouspe
• “The Last Dream” – Script: Diego Agrimbau, Art: Mariano Navarro
• “TBD” – Script: Fred Van Lente, Art: TBA
• … and more to be revealed!

Additional details on each story will be revealed during the course of the Kickstarter campaign via the Updates feature. Backers interested in supporting the X-O MANOWAR: BLACK, WHITE & GOLD Kickstarter campaign must get their pledge in by October 29, 2025.