PRELUDE TO ARMOR HUNTERS! The countdown to the most expansive Valiant Universe event yet starts now! For eons, one threat above all others has brought pain and strife down upon civilizations across the universe — the X-O Manowar armor. And now the Manowar has come to Earth. What will follow in its wake? The road to ARMOR HUNTERS begins here as Valiant superstars Robert Venditti and Diego Bernard unleash the opening salvo of the cataclysm that is come...
To celebrate this achievement and the silver issue of X-O Manowar we include X-O Manowar #25. A blockbuster, 48-page celebration of X-O Manowar's twenty-fifth issue...and an essential introduction to the comic book event of 2014 —ARMOR HUNTERS!

Visual artist(s): Diego Bernard, J.G. Jones, Bryan Hitch, Rafer Roberts