• 6.0
  Comical Opinions - Gabriel Hernandez Jan 14, 2026

  VALIANT BEYOND: X-O MANOWAR #5 wants to be a smart, conceptually adventurous exploration of what honor means when external power becomes irrelevant. It's got genuine artistic merit and a protagonist whose internal struggle feels earned. But it buckles under the weight of its own ambition, failing to establish the basic rules of its own battlefield. The final reveal suggests bigger things are coming, but for a single issue focused on internal rescue, it doesn't quite deliver the narrative coherence it promises. Read Full Review

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