Behold, fools! Yet another towering stockpile of much-vaunted Sexy Superhero Comedy looms nigh! Adam Warren's Empowered Deluxe Edition Volume 2 collects betwixt its Covers Most Hard every scintilla of silliness, sensuality, and sporadic seriousness contained within Empowered Volumes 4, 5, and 6! This colossal cornucopia further boasts a bounteous bevy of rarely seen bonus treasures galore, such as Sketches Most Saucy, Artwork Unpublished, Vainglorious Notes from the Auteur, and far more still! Release your inner Demonwolf, mortals . . . IF YOU DARE!
Adam Warren (born 1967) is an American comic book writer and artist who is most famous for his original graphic novel Empowered, for adapting the characters known as Dirty Pair into an American comic book, and for being one of the first American commercial illustrators to be influenced by the general manga style.
Continuing where volume 3 of regular comics left off, this second collection of an opus drops even more of the "haha-funny-sexy-comedy" thread, and angles more towards a dark superhero satire-drama (with a nice heaping spoonful of action and gore), which I love. The characters grow more complex by the chapter, the Willy Pete angle deepens, and with the introduction of the Superdead and Deathmonger, the comic introduces a surprising and new, twisted concept that's unique to this world, as far as I'm aware - all while keeping the tongue-in-cheek cleverness of it all nicely intact. Honestly, most times, I get so into the story, I barely even notice the cheesecake-tasticness of the character designs and the gratuitous butt shots. (The presence of which is definitely not a complaint, by the way: though I am very happy with the improved ratio of Emp being all bondaged up and badass-rrific. Her powers and confidence all getting stronger is something it's lovely to see.)
And this is about as far as I've gotten back in the day- I'm guessing my last back then was probably volume 6 of the individual comics (I had read about Mindf**k and the Superdead but not about Ninjette's backstory), so I'm definitely eager to get to the next few volumes! Hoping for a Thugboy/San Antonio backstory volume soon-ishly. Because the shit hitting THAT particular fan promises to be GOOD stuff.