X-O Manowar Part 8: Unity #0 (August, 1992)

Unity begins and Aric, of course, is involved…

I have this issue in the Unity Saga Vol. 1 Trade Paperback.

Aric arrives outside a phone booth near Holden, Utah (along with the kids of Harbinger) thanks to Geoff McHenry - this generation’s Geomancer. He witnesses another man appear within the telephone booth and, along with even more people, winds up in a very strange place about to be attacked by an army of creatures and machines.

Notes of Interest:

1) Aric appears for less than ten panels in the second half of the issue. We have no idea how he meets Geoff, or how he handles seeing Sting and the others again.

2) The man appearing in the phone booth is Gilad the Eternal Warrior, whom Aric meets for the first time this issue.

3) Aric (as always) is ready for a fight.

4) The strange place Aric and the others find themselves in is the Lost Land, where Mothergod works towards resetting the universe.

WTF? Moment: When Gilad yells at Geoff, Aric threatens to cut the Eternal Warrior in half. Considering the loyalty issues Aric’s been dealing with lately, how could he be prepared to protect the boy to the point of killing a complete stranger so quickly?