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Empowered Volume 9 Paperback – September 1, 2015

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Already under official suspicion and suspended from her superteam, costumed crimefighter Empowered finds herself the bewildered target of every major supervillain in the capes-and-tights field for her supposed access to alien technology. With a trick or two up her tattered supersuit's sleeve, can our tirelessly plucky but sadly underestimated heroine outwit her army of tormentors--and escape the long-simmering revenge of the sinister Fleshmaster?

"This is a fantastically rendered book on every conceivable level, and much like Empowered herself, has to work even harder to get the respect it deserves. Luckily they're both way more powerful than most people ever expected them to be." --comicbookresources.com

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232 pages
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Dark Horse Books
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September 1, 2015
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6.56 x 0.59 x 9.01 inches
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1616555718
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Adam Warren was one of the first writer/ artists in American comics to strongly integrate the artistic and storytelling techniques of manga into his own work, debuting in 1988 with an original, English-language comic based on the Japanese SF characters The Dirty Pair. Later, he worked on a wide array of comics projects including Gen13 and Titans: Scissors, Paper, Stone for DC Comics, Iron Man: Hypervelocity and Livewires for Marvel Comics, and even a miniseries inspired by the "old-school" anime Bubblegum Crisis--plus occasional dabbling in magazine, videogame, and RPG illustration work. Presently, he writes and draws the creator-owned comic series Empowered, a "sexy superhero comedy"--except when it isn't--about the trials, tribulations, and body-image issues of a struggling young "C-List" superheroine.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dark Horse Books; Illustrated edition (September 1, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 232 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1616555718
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1616555719
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.56 x 0.59 x 9.01 inches

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Adam Warren was born in 1967 and is an American comic book writer and artist who is most famous for his adaptation of the characters known as Dirty Pair into an American comic books. He is also known for being one of the first American commercial illustrators to be influenced by the general manga style. He has contributed to several Gen¹³ comics, worked as writer and character designer for the Marvel Comics series Livewires, and has done numerous freelance works. His two latest projects are Iron Man: Hypervelocity and Empowered.

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Philip Norsworthy

It feels a little lacking.

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2016

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While Empowered is a fantastic series overall, I feel that the last few volumes have begun to suffer from pacing issues. In fairness, the series is very continuity heavy, and Warren can't devote all his time to working on the series and getting the next volume out. But it's easy to feel like some plot threads are getting neglected.

I preferred the series when the books were made up of several shorter stories, instead of being almost entirely focused on one story the way the last few have been. It allowed Warren to better juggle the various plotlines and characters. It's not that I'm expecting a huge revelation about every subplot each volume, but it would be nice if most of them had at least a little advancement.

Speaking as someone who doesn't care about about bondage, the bondage sections sometimes do drag on for too long. And while Emp's insecurities are a key part of the series, sometimes it feels like Warren's just repeating things we already know, instead of truly expanding on the characters.

As for the volume itself, Emp finally being forced to answer for the various scandals she's been involved in was great. The Suprahuman culture is one of my favorite things about the series, and I always love watching Emp try to navigate her way through the various politics and secrets of her Superhomeys. But most of the book focuses on Emp having to dodge various villains who want to take advantage of her suit's ability to access an alien stockpile of superweapons. While it's usually fun to see the kind of quirky bad guys and good guys Warren comes up with, most of the book is completely devoid of the usual supporting cast. One shot characters might funny, but they aren't what make a story interesting. The book finally resolves the long simmering plot of Manny and Emp's teammate-turned-traitor dWARF/Fleshmaster. Unfortunately, for a story that was put on the backburner for so long, it ends up feeling anticlimactic.

Empowered. A series that's funny, touching and action packed. But man, at one volume a year, it takes its time to get anywhere.

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Melvern Gray

Empowered but just EMP

Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2021

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I've been an Empowered super fan for about 2 years now since I started reading the webcomic at empoweredcomic.com. Just before volume 8 wrapped up, I decided to finally buy a volume since they're so cheap. I haven't been able to binge Empowered since January so I forgot how quickly I can burn through content. This volume felt pretty short, even though it's one of the longer volumes page-wise.

I'll start with my gripes. The very beginning is mostly recap. A hefty amount at that. This volume reminded me a lot of volume 1 in how it was so all over the place. It threw me for a loop in the beginning but after that, it kinda felt like it was repeating itself over and over until it reached the conclusion. While some reviewers praised EMP for being keen and observant, I can't help but feel many scenarios were contrived for her to be almost guaranteed to succeed with things going her way more often than not. For example, she outed a character for being a conservative and him and his evil partner beat each other up over opposing political views and that's how she escapes. I'm not kidding.

I think my least favorite part of this volume was the dialogue. Which is sad because Adam usually has very charming and witty dialogue. Not that all the dialogue in this volume is bad or unfunny mind you. But it kinda feels like a downgrade from past volumes. Certain characters who shall not be named have some grating speech patterns. These guys are King Tyrant Lizard x100. But even for other characters, mostly EMP, I think he was just doing too much adding little asides and snide remarks constantly. The snark is cranked up to 11 in this volume. EMP is done with everyone's bullcrap.

My last gripe would be that this story scaled waaay back on familiar faces. Not to wax spoilerific as Adam would say, but most Empowered mainstays are absent throughout this adventure. It's just EMP fighting for her life right after she gets abducted for the first time. And while it does give her a chance to shine on her own and show that she can handle herself, she feels incredibly vulnerable at times. Since she does get captured quite a bit. Is that a spoiler? Come on, it's Empowered...

But now I can finally talk about what I do like. Of course, it goes without saying that Adam's art is top notch here as always. The story itself was pretty good. I fanboyed at certain moments. Even though, it didn't get that exciting until the very end, the whole journey was great. Full of that Empowered charm we all know and love. Adam has mentioned he makes sure to cater to his bondage loving fans in at least 1 chapter per volume and he delivers in that department. Although the story told in that specific chapter was hard to sit through personally, the images themselves were great...how ironic.

Adam really takes Chekov's Gun as gospel. Like usual, a lot of the dialogue that seems like fluff is actually just foreshadowing and everything culminates in the end. Everything starts to make sense and it feels satisfying. Multiple long standing plot threads are tied up by the end.

All in all, if you're an Empowered fan, you will absolutely enjoy this volume. There are many great callbacks that attentive readers will pick up on and cameos you'll enjoy. Not to mention an intense and exciting final act.

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Sandman

Just finished; already waiting anxiously for the next volume......

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 4, 2015

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Empowered is one of my favourite continuing series, but as it is published in hefty book-sized instalments, and the one-man production by the brilliant Adam Warren (he writes, he pencils, he inks, he letters, all of them superbly well) is I should imagine highly labour intensive, there is always a lengthy wait between episodes. Anyway, at least a year since I read the last book, Volume 9 just arrived, and as always I immediately devoured it in one marathon page turning session. Having just finished, I started this review straight away. And now the waiting for Volume 10 begins.

As always, this is highly recommended but ideally should not be read in isolation: this series needs to be read from the start. There are big themes, plots and mysteries that have been building intriguingly for years; these continue in the latest episode, and they are far from done yet! This book is self-contained in that it sets up and resolves a peril-filled scenario for our embattled heroine, tackling a succession of antagonists old and new, both heroes and villains. Emp gets a great emotional pay off after some mind-blowing action, but as I say reading the earlier volumes will definitely enhance the reader's enjoyment of this one.

This one really focuses on Emp, with a lot less of some of my favourite supporting characters as a result. Apart from flash backs, it basically covers one really tough day for her. We see a lot of Emp in jeopardy, and a satisfying amount of her beating bad guys mostly with brains but with a bit of brawn when needed. As always, there's plenty of entertaining, idiosyncratic dialogue (all lettered wonderfully), and lots of eye-popping spectacular artwork in Warren's unique combination of black and white pencils and inks.

If you're already a fan then you will enjoy this as much as previous volumes; if you aren't then read those first.

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365 Graphic Novels

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 16, 2016

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This is certainly an unpredictable book with definite highs and lows. It starts off with what you think is a great recap. Which after 70 pages you realise is the comic book equivalent of a clip show. But the story does kick off, and make sense and progress.

Emp reveals some new powers which have a great payoff. But then there is the lurid spanking fanfic part. Which is supposed to be ironic so that is all right. Right?

Thankfully the dire verbiage of the intergalactic conqueror only lasts a page. But for some reason every other character that turns up has an atrocious word-mangling dialect.

There is a lot of author politics (as in party politics) on display which is unusual for an Empowered title. Plus a grumble at the state of the comics industry and the internet. And the whole thing could be an allegory for the debate on Civil Rights verses Government Responsibility.

The art has settled down. The black pages are terrible fingerprint magnets. But there are finer lines and more subtle shading returning to displace the nasty black outlines of previous volumes. There is a Parental Advisory sticker on the front. You wonder why it is there until you get to the scenes where you don’t.

Is the book cleverer than you worry it is? Is it actually empowering or is it just cheesecake of the bad kind. Or is Warren dangerous enough to court both camps. You decide.

Still a Thumbs Up!

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Thomas Plumpton

Holy CRAP It's The Maidman!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 10, 2015

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She's had Bad days. She's had okay days.

But this...this is quite the day.
Funny, brutal, sweet, creepy and dim-witted moments fill her day in droves, but using her skills, her powers, and her degree in suprahuman studies, Emp's smarts rival that of Batman's in dealing with some things, eliminating others, or simply surviving the worst.

The middle is fantastic, the ending is ecstatic. The bar is raised... but can a class: Z Superheroine (rated by the in-universe's dumb power-rating standards, we all know she's more dangerous than a green-lantern-ring-wearing enranged honey badger) survive what will no doubt be an increase in threat in future books?

You should read it. Start at the beginning, if you haven't already. You should make your DC-loving and Marvel-loving and Webcomic-loving friends read it. Lend them the books, and pap them on the head with the novels when they are reading it too slowly.

And to those that are unsure, I say "Fehh."

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Mark Sheldon

Empowered at last

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 20, 2015

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Well, this may well be the best Empowered yet. If you already love our struggling (often literally) heroine, there's much here to make you cheer. I'm not going to give anything away, but suffice to say that you will find a pay off that amply rewards you sticking with the series. It's possibly one of the finest "Wow!" moments since Luke Skywalker found out what really happened to his father. My only warning would be that you really need to have read most if not all of the books to truly get all of the multitude of references in this one. If you haven't, do so now. You won't regret it.

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Ash

Superb Fun

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 27, 2017

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I've been reading books by Adam warren since we were both much younger. the style has not changed sassy underdressed women running around in a futuristic setting with superb one liners and a nice line in expressive violence. Empowered is unusual in its genre does not take itself too seriously and puts a smile upon your face. what's not to love.

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