EMPOWERED 6 now on sale! (SPOILER ALERT?)

Happy to report that Empowered vol. 6, the latest installment in my ongoing "sexy superhero comedy" series published by Dark Horse Comics, should now be on the shelves of your Local Comics Retailer (and subsequently, I hope, on the shelves of your local bookstore* at some point).

Anyhoo, just thought I'd post this journal as a place to proffer your opinion if'n you felt like commenting on the book... Needless to say, this comment thread will therefore pose a major SPOILER ALERT for anyone who's not yet read the book.

I have to say that Empowered vol. 6 is a slightly unusual installment, in that it features a tad less humor-related pagecount than previous volumes, due mainly to the very long action scenes that open and close the volume. (Then again, these sequences are relatively modest compared to the epic, grueling and brutal 200-Page Action Scene taking place about five or six volumes in the future; that one's really not very funny.) Also, the rest of the main cast has a slightly reduced role, in favor of a more "Emp-centric" focus for the book; rest assured, vol. 7's strong emphasis on Ninjette will make up for this neglect. Finally, I also have to admit that the book printed somewhat more darkly and with a wee bit higher contrast than I would've liked; this comes with the territory, alas, when you work solely in pencil, which is a medium strongly affected by the vagaries of printing. Live by the grayscale, die by the grayscale...   

Side note: For those who have indeed picked up Empowered vol. 6, just thought I'd ask: Any pages in particular from the book that you think I should post here on dA? Have to admit, I really haven't given the matter as much thought as it deserves.

Speaking of asking questions, I'm wrapping up work on a 6-page promotional story wherein our heroine Empowered answers questions (in a rather "meta" fashion) posed by dAers here: adamwarren.deviantart.com/jour… The completed story's slated to run on Dark Horse's website next week; stay tuned for a link to the finished piece.      
  
And now, the floggery: Empowered vol. 6 hits the shelves on Sept. 15, 2010. The book can be preordered at your Local Comics Retailer or bookstore, or online at Dark Horse's retail website www.tfaw.com/Profile/Empowered… or on Amazon.com www.amazon.com/Empowered-6-Ada… . Note that links for ordering the previous five books (and the "floppy" comics-format one-shot, "The Wench with a Million Sighs,") can also be found at those sites... Hint, hint.



Here's the book's back-cover copy:

After a fiery disaster claims the lives of several teammates, costumed crimefighter "Empowered" stumbles upon an ugly little secret of the masks-and-tights business: a growing number of ill-fated superheroes have found out the hard way that, while their bodies are still mortal, their superpowers are not... Now, only our downtrodden but doggedly determined heroine can rescue the (semi-)living superdead from a quite genuine "fate worse than death," while simultaneously grappling with the challenges of phallospear harassment, car-trunk carpetburn, superhero fantasy leagues, excessive bedroom chatter, and deals with the devil both figurative and literal! All this, plus Empowered's not-so-secret origin is revealed at last!

You can check out a 10-page preview from the book here: www.comicsalliance.com/2010/09… A bazillion more images, illos and comics pages from Empowered can be found in this gallery folder: adamwarren.deviantart.com/gall…

_{*Though not, of course, at my local bookstore, which has stubbornly refused to stock Empowered ever since they sold the grand total of two copies of vol. 1 they deigned to order back in 2007. "Not that I am bitter," as Dave Barry often said.}