Woo, hoo... It's the front and back cover (and spine!) of EMPOWERED, vol. 1! (Volume one of many, I hope, but we'll have to see how well the first few TPBS do.) The book's about 6" X 9", roughly in the SIN CITY format, akin to some of the oversized manga reprints. B&W interior, with 248 pencil-repro'd pages, with a cover price of $14.95. It's revised shipping date is March 21st, 2007.


In case the back-cover text isn't readable at display size, here's the copy again:


Not only is costumed crimefighter "Empowered" saddled with a less-than-ideal superhero name, but she has to wear 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 game. 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, female-ninja girlfriend, not to mention the supervillainous advice from an imprisoned alien demonlord watching DVDs from 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!