Adam Warren's Empowered

[vertigo]

Not only is costumed crimefighter "Empowered" saddled with a less-than-ideal superhero name, but she wears a skintight and cruelly revealing "supersuit" that only magnifies her body-image insecurities. Worse yet, the suit's unreliable powers are prone to failure, repeatedly leaving her in appallingly distressing situations . . . and giving her a shameful reputation as the lamest "cape" in the masks-and-tights business. Nonetheless, she pluckily braves the ordeals of her bottom-rung superheroic life with the help of her "thugalicious" boyfriend (and former Witless Minion) and her hard-drinking ninja girlfriend, not to mention the supervillainous advice from the caged alien demonlord watching DVDs from atop her coffee table . . .

From Adam Warren-writer/artist of the English-language Dirty Pair comics (the original "Original English-Language Manga" before OEL was cool), and writer of Livewires, Gen13, and Iron Man: Hypervelocity-comes Empowered, a butt-kicking, bootylicious superhero lampoon that raises the bar for long-john lust and low-brow laughs. Remove all previous notions of superhero entertainment from your puny mind . . . and prepare to be Empowered!



sample;

issue 1

http://rapidshare.com/files/129172703/_Adam_Warren__Empowered_01.rar
















issue 2

http://rapidshare.com/files/129172709/_Adam_Warren__Empowered_02.rar

















issue 3

http://rapidshare.com/files/129191471/_Adam_Warren__Empowered_03.rar

 

[NnubianN]

Was curious what Slik liked about this book. Has anyone read all of em yet?

 

[2nd2none]

read up issue 2. Its about this super chick that has bad self a steam problems and her super suit is easy torn in battle which resulting in her losing her power and getting tide up all the time

 

[heiesuke]

koo

 

[vertigo]

Was curious what Slik liked about this book. Has anyone read all of em yet?

I actually own these books. They (i.m.o) successfully combine equal parts of action and comedy, with a generous dose of naughtiness thrown in. It also pokes fun at a lot of the conventions and stereotypes in modern comics and manga.

On top of all that, personally, I think the draftsmanship is amazing. I'm an artist myself, and can't help but be impressed by what this guy can do with a #3 graphite.

Try the first issue, you might not like it, but then again, you might.

 

[UltimateLurker]