Empowered Omnibus Volume 2

Empowered #4-6

by Adam Warren, Emily Warren (Illustrator), Joe Chen (Illustrator)

Sexy? Aye! Superhero? Affirmative! Comedy? Yea, verily!

Adam Warren's critically acclaimed Empowered shakes the foundations of the heavens as one of the great modern superhero comics (View From the Gutters) that's laugh-out-loud funny (Comics Worth Reading) while remarkably generating genuinely affecting emotion (Library Journal). Might such a miraculous melange portend a fantastically rendered book on every conceivable level (Comic Book Resources)? Certainement! An astonishing 674 pages collecting Empowered volumes 4, 5, and 6.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Superheroes, Humor, Graphic Novels Comics

624 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 11, 2012

About the author

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.

Reviews

[poier · Rating 5 out of 5]

why this actually fun and really good superhero comic so horny

[Anna · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.