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

* Adam Warren’s work on>The Dirty Pair is well-known to U.S. comics readers.

* Warren’s skill as a writer has brought him a variety of high-profile assignments in recent years from Wildstorm, DC, and Marvel.

For Mature Readers.