Get EMPOWERED via Dark Horse Digital Comics!

As of this week, the long-awaited Dark Horse Digital Comics Store is online and open for business digital.darkhorse.com/ , and I'm happy to say that  my "sexy superhero comedy*" series Empowered is well-represented on the store's virtual shelves! Huzzah!

Quoting from David Brothers' recent overview of the program at Comics Alliance: www.comicsalliance.com/2011/04…

"There are two ways to access Dark Horse Digital. You can access it on your iOS device -- iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch -- via a free app, or on your computer through your web browser. An Android app is due soon, but at a currently unannounced date. I tested the web interface on my Nexus One smartphone and found that Dark Horse Digital has a fully functional mobile version of its website. Bravo! This is something that is lacking in our app-driven digital comics ecosystem. It's low maintenance, doesn't require any installation, and works great for browsing."

Here's a link to the aforementioned free app for Dark Horse Digital, BTW: itunes.apple.com/us/app/dark-h…

As you can see in my little niche of the DH site digital.darkhorse.com/contribu… ...the first four volumes of Empowered are now on sale for a mere $5.99 each, which is far cheaper than even Amazon offers the print editions. (Also keep in mind that we're talkin' about 210-250 pages per volume here, which is waaaaay more pagecount than you'll see with most other collected comics.)

Also available is the one-shot comic Empowered: The Wench with a Million Sighs, featuring 32pp for the admittedly less jawdropping price of $1.99... but, hey, it's a good place to start if you're leery of investing a full $5.99 for a regular Emp volume: digital.darkhorse.com/profile/…



Anyhoo, this is kind of a big frickin' deal. If you enjoyed Empowered in print form, I strongly encourage you to check out the series in digital form as well. If nothing else, you'll be making a strong contribution towards the survival of the franchise, as this is gonna be one hell of a lean year for Empowered otherwise, given that vol. 7 won't hit the shelves until 2012. (Note that, if the first bunch of books sell okay through DH Digital, volumes 5 and 6 will be added to the selection.)

If, say, you might have torrented the books for free and feel like contributing a little somethin' somethin' to actually helping the series continue, take a look at the DH Emp store, my friend. Heck, even if you're averse to buying the books again, I urge you to pass the word along to others who might be interested. That's right, I'm saying, "Put the word on the street about Empowered digital, Huggy Bear(s)."

Side note: Empowered vol. 4's full-color story "Who Da Ubermensch?", which has tended to print a tad too dark in the "dead-tree" versions of the book, looks frickin' beautiful on a monitor's screen.



If you're looking for the printed editions instead, worry not, as we're more than happy to sell 'em to you: Empowered's first six volumes (and the aforementioned one-shot in "floppy" comics format) can be found on the shelves of your Local Comics Retailer or bookstore, or online at Dark Horse's retail website www.tfaw.com/Search?_results_u… or on Amazon.com www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_nos… .

Finally, in other "How YOU can keep Empowered afloat" news:



...don't forget that the new one-shot comic Empowered: Ten Questions for the Maidman is slated to hit the shelves of your Local Comics Store on June 8th! (Click on the thumbnail fo' mo' info.)

                                                                                -AW


*Except when it isn't.