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9-3-07 Dark Horse
Super-damsel in dis-dress!
Empowered returns for further misadventures as the peril-prone girl-wonder
struggles
with life on the super-heroic C-list! Clad – or unclad, as fate would too often
have it – in
her embarrassingly revealing and maddeningly unreliable super-suit, she fights a
never
ending battle against overly sensitive super-villains, irrationally envious
super-heroines,
and her own body-image issues! Meanwhile, her boyfriend, Thugboy, plays with
fire
when he foolhardily attempts to compliment his profoundly insecure sweetheart on
the
awe-inspiring power of her . . . well, booty. And her often-inebriated gal-pal,
Ninjette,
pursues a drunken and ultimately disastrous mission to acquire Empowered some
respect—by force if necessary! All this, plus crossword-obsessed goons,
speech-impaired
super-beasts, “Ninjas Gone Wild,” and even a few self-help hints from
nigh-omnipotent
cosmic overlords!
Writer/artist Adam Warren adds: “No, wait, this press release needs more
exclamation
points! Also in this volume: Emp goes undercover as the less-than-subtle,
glasses-andgarters-
clad ‘Sexy Librarian!’ Her clingy super-suit not only asphyxiates a bad guy, but
also gets its House on and diagnoses a lethal illness—and gets used as a
prophylactic, to
boot! Ninjette reveals the two most exotic arts of the ninja: namely, ‘cosplay’
and
videogame reviewing! Thugboy faces off against an allegedly magical sock monkey!
Supervillains and hapless minions get the crap kicked outta them! It’s all here,
folks!”
Adam Warren first displayed his aptitude for drawing the female form with the
1988
release of the Dirty Pair comics series, the original “Original English-Language
Manga.” Empowered takes his signature bootylicious, manga-meets-pin-up style and
gives it additional depth and texture by skipping the inks and sourcing directly
from
original pencil drawings. As a writer, Warren mixes screwball humor, wild
action, and
sharp, complex characterization to create a graphic novel that is as
well-rounded as, well
. . . you know.
“A sort of R-rated sitcom exploring geek culture from the inside out, Empowered
has its
cake and eats it too—it’s full of exploitative, titillating imagery, but it also
features the
healthiest and most realistic romantic relationship in any comic book featuring
capes and
masks.” —J. Caleb Mozzocco, Las Vegas Weekly
Dark Horse Comics is proud to announce the release of Empowered Volume 2, the
much
anticipated follow-up to the first Empowered graphic novel that sold through its
first
printing before it even hit the shelves. Empowered Volume 2 will be available in
retail
shops everywhere on September 19, 2007. Get a copy (and quick this time) for
just
$14.95.
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