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Aric has a run-in with the mob.
I have this issue.
Continuing the (rather bad) story from X-O Manowar #16, Aric finishes off destroying the remaining alien
tech he faced last issue. He then heads home to find Ken hosting a fundraiser
in an effort to get a seat in the Senate. After throwing everybody out and
making it clear to Ken that they are not
friends, Aric laments over being alone in the world with the exception of Turok
- his only true friend.
The next evening, Aric learns that Ken was almost killed in
an explosion. This being the latest threat from the Carboni family against Orb
Industies’ plans to develop some land that the Caboni’s have a “special
interest” in. Aric responds by meeting members of the Carboni family – alone
and without the X-O armor. They boat
Aric out into the middle of the Atlantic ,
knock him unconscious, tie chains around his legs and toss him into the water.
Drowning, Aric calls for the Good-Skin. It arrives in time, and Aric destroys
the boat and kills all but one of the gangsters. He gives the survivor a
message to convey: “Leave Orb Industries alone”.
The following day, Aric gets a package from the Carboni
family apologizing for the “misunderstanding”.
Notes of Interest:
1) Nothing major, but it’s clear that Aric is questioning
his place in this time and wonders if Turok had the right idea when he went off
to “roam the Earth”.
WTF? Moment: From
what we’ve seen, Aric’s been a fighter, a leader, a strategist and a ruler. But
there’s nothing that showed him as an artist – specifically a sculptor. So how
is it that he has three different statues of Turok on his table?
It’s possible that with all his money, Aric paid someone to make those things, but
to do that he’d have had to provide the artist with images to base the work
on…or at least descriptive notes written from memory. It’s also possible that
Aric did the work himself, with the X-O’s help.
But why would he have
them at all?
Some would call that a sign of obsession…
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