Identity of 'Map Giver' in X-O Manowar?

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Identity of 'Map Giver' in X-O Manowar?

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This may have been answered here, but the search function didn't find any reference.

Remember that Valiant Era/Wizard contest?

The first question was "Who was the 'Map Giver' that told Aric were to find the X-O armor?"

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Elvis has left the building.. :)
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myron wrote:Elvis has left the building.. :)
So it was suppose to be Elvis and not Ivar or someone else in the Valiant Universe? :oops:

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It was hinted at that he was Elvis, but it was never eally said. This was the only thing I did not like about the first issue. I thought it was kind of cheesey to put Elvis in there.


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BodaZoffa wrote:It was hinted at that he was Elvis, but it was never eally said. This was the only thing I did not like about the first issue. I thought it was kind of cheesey to put Elvis in there.


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was that in the first issue? i remember it clearly in the zero issue, but not so much in the first.

i'm not saying you're wrong, i really don't remember.

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i thought it was funny how it was elvis.

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dave wrote:was that in the first issue? i remember it clearly in the zero issue, but not so much in the first.

i'm not saying you're wrong, i really don't remember.
Your right. It was issue #0. Issue #1 made reference to the map giver, but never showed him. In issue #0 it showed the map giver carving the map onto Aric's hand.

By the way.... how do you guys pronouce Aric. Is it (R' ic) or (AIR ic)?

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air ic...is how i've always pronounced it...i liked it when he used to call ken k'nn. that was cool.

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Post by fryabusa »

I'm not saying it wasn't Elvis but if it was how could he get all the info on the ship? Surely the spider aliens wouldn't have kept him alive for almost 20 years without eating him.

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Post by greg »

Anyone with the X-O Manowar trade paperback should check
the two-page "people of the X-O books" mystery game...
there's another image of the mapgiver there.

But to spoil the party (or liven it up)... yes, the mapgiver was
supposed to be Elvis. Maybe they kept him alive so he could
sing for them about trees. :P

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BodaZoffa wrote:By the way.... how do you guys pronouce Aric. Is it (R' ic) or (AIR ic)?
Since I share that first name with Mr. Dacia, the "proper" pronunciation is R'ic or AR-ic.

However, most people assume that it's just a fancy way of saying Eric, and choose to use the air-IC pronunciation.

I hate those people, so in most conversations, I just drop the "A" off of the name, so I don't decide to pummel people after having corrected them six times. :)

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<<You gotta remember Joe Q drawing the book. I had 'heard' something back in the day that it was Joe Q getting with the writer to make sure it was 'ok' to put him in there. I thought it was cheesy yet funny... as in 'Elvis didnt DIE, he was abducted by Aliens' theme.>>

Joe Q had NOTHING to do with the identity of the Map Giver.
It is Elvis and it was something Shooter and I came up with as an "in joke' back when the series was originally being conceived.

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Bob Layton wrote:<<You gotta remember Joe Q drawing the book. I had 'heard' something back in the day that it was Joe Q getting with the writer to make sure it was 'ok' to put him in there. I thought it was cheesy yet funny... as in 'Elvis didnt DIE, he was abducted by Aliens' theme.>>

Joe Q had NOTHING to do with the identity of the Map Giver.
It is Elvis and it was something Shooter and I came up with as an "in joke' back when the series was originally being conceived.

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Does armstrong in Steel Nation count?

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dino wrote: Does armstrong in Steel Nation count?
huh?? what you talkin 'bout willis??
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Bob Layton wrote:<<You gotta remember Joe Q drawing the book. I had 'heard' something back in the day that it was Joe Q getting with the writer to make sure it was 'ok' to put him in there. I thought it was cheesy yet funny... as in 'Elvis didnt DIE, he was abducted by Aliens' theme.>>

Joe Q had NOTHING to do with the identity of the Map Giver.
It is Elvis and it was something Shooter and I came up with as an "in joke' back when the series was originally being conceived.

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dino wrote:
Does armstrong in Steel Nation count?


huh?? what you talkin 'bout willis??
Theres a fat old guy with a satchel in the steel nation story line (Magnus 1 i think) that looks a lot like armstrong.

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Well waddaya know...Bob Layton, here. Heh. ;)

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dino wrote:
dino wrote:
Does armstrong in Steel Nation count?


huh?? what you talkin 'bout willis??
Theres a fat old guy with a satchel in the steel nation story line (Magnus 1 i think) that looks a lot like armstrong.
Are you thinking about the Gophs standing around the burn barrel or maybe the one (goph) whose brain Leeja picks to figure out where the robots went??? I don't think so...course well after shooter they find him out on a moon of jupiter brain wiped and they made it seem like he had been out there a LONG time...that's when all that crap about him being the "eternal Geomancer" popped up...
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let's see if we can bait him back...naw...there is NO WAY he's gonna answer another question...

i heard that jorge gonzalez was a HUGE they might be giants fan, so he had gayle singing, "Birdhouse in your soul". (get it knight?)

no really, who's idea was that?

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that was in solar 25 btw. pretty sure it was in another book as well...secret weapons maybe?

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i'm using your "misinformation trick-NOW do you get it?)
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