Eternal Warrior: Awakening Vol 1 1

You have never been a farmer at all. You are Gilad Anni-Padda of Clan Anni-Padda. The Fist and Steel of Earth. The ETERNAL WARRIOR. I am a Geomancer. And I have come to help you remember.

-- Mesopotamian Geomancer

Awakening[]

Appearances[]

Featured Characters:

Eternal Warrior / Gilad Anni-Padda

Supporting Characters:

Mesopotamian Geomancer

Villains:

Fell Legion (Single appearance)
- Alpha Hyamm (Only appearance; dies)
- Ziruk

Other Characters:

Gilad's wife
Tribes
Villagers

Locations:

Mesopotamia
- Akkad City (Mentioned only)

Items:

Axe
Jawbone of the wolf

Vehicles:

Camels
Fatty (Gilad's buffalo)
Horses

Credits[]

Writers: Robert Venditti
Pencilers: Renato Guedes
Colorists: Ulises Arreola
Letterers: Dave Sharpe
Cover Artists: Clayton Crain, Robert Gill, Marc Laming, Jeffrey Veregge
Editors: Charlotte Greenbaum
Editor-in-Chief: Warren Simons

Solicitation[]

It is a time before civilization…

On the brink of carving out victory in the most violent battle of his life, Gilad Anni-Padda suffers a devastating injury. He awakens weeks later in a strange land, nursed back to health but with no memory of his past. A tribe has shown him compassion in an age of cruelty, and he will return their gift in kind. Now the real violence will begin…

New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti (Hal Jordan & The Green Lantern Corps.) and acclaimed artist Renato Guedes (Bloodshot Reborn) lead a celebration of the Eternal Warrior’s 25th anniversary here with the second of four standalone specials honoring the most famous Valiant tales ever told!

Synopsis[]

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Notes[]

This issue is one of four one-shots that would be published from April-July 2017 in homage to a classic Valiant story from the 1990s. This one is based on Jim Shooter's Eternal Warrior #1 - Footprints on the Sands of Time (1992).

Quotes[]

Truth, Fatty. Have I always been this poor a farmer?

-- Eternal Warrior

You have never been a farmer at all. You are Gilad Anni-Padda of Clan Anni-Padda. The Fist and Steel of Earth. The ETERNAL WARRIOR. I am a Geomancer. And I have come to help you remember.

-- Mesopotamian Geomancer

You will continue your search now. Flog your horses until their hearts burst. Then eat their hearts and run on foot.

-- Alpha Hyamm

Every warrior of the Fell Legion once served a weak man. I freed you from the shame of such misfortune. Now you understand the glory of serving the strong.

-- Alpha Hyamm

The Earth Mother would prefer that you cease, Gilad. She says you make her look...poorly.

-- Mesopotamian Geomancer

The Earth Mother could fill your field with rows. Make the wind sow your seeds and have them thrive to a full crop by midday. But even that might not convince you.

-- Mesopotamian Geomancer

The pain still cuts. Do not close yourself to it.

-- Mesopotamian Geomancer

Drive them back! Return them to the hell that spawned them! Your march of death stops here.

-- Eternal Warrior

Come. Show me your worst. Have you no wrath? Scratch. Claw. Bite. This is battle. There are no laws. No honor. Only the dead and those who made them so.

-- Alpha Hyamm

There is honor. I kill to feed my people. To give us clothes, shelter. To defend our lands. I kill because sometimes, I must.

-- Eternal Warrior

Let her think I was lost in the battle. The widow of a hero will fare better than a wife left behind. The life of Earth's fist and steel is no life for a family. Those memories I wish had not been restored.

-- Eternal Warrior