New Releases by Adam Warren

Empowered takes on supervillain masterminds and social media trolls in this omnibus comics collection! Costumed crimefighter Empowered, jubilant after belatedly gaining full-time membership in the SuperHomeys, soon faces alarming new threats to her hard-earned happiness. Next, Emp becomes the desperate prey of a maniacal supervillain whose godlike powers have turned an entire city of capes against her. Can our beleaguered superheroine save everyone? Finally, Emp’s universe begins inexplicably rebooting itself over and over again, with each radical reimagining more twisted and bizarre than the last! For mature audiences. Collects volumes 10 to 12 of Adam Warren’s hilarious yet heartfelt superhero epic!

Empowered takes on supervillain masterminds and social media trolls in this deluxe collection! Costumed crimefighter Empowered, jubilant after belatedly gaining full-time membership in the SuperHomeys, soon faces alarming new threats to her hard-earned happiness. Next, Emp becomes the desperate prey of a maniacal supervillain whose godlike powers have turned an entire city of capes against her. Finally, Emp’s universe begins inexplicably rebooting itself over and over again, with each radical reimagining more twisted and bizarre than the last! For mature audiences. Collects volumes 10 to 12 of Adam Warren’s hilarious yet heartfelt superhero epic in a deluxe hardcover—with bountiful bonus material, from unpublished stories and deleted scenes to design sketches and creator notes!

From comics kingpin Adam Warren comes Empowered, the sexy superhero comedy—except when it isn’t—that pushes envelopes, crosses boundaries, and breaks a few buildings for good measure! Costumed crimefighter Empowered is trapped in a surreal nightmare scenario as her universe begins spontaneously rebooting again and again, with each variation more twisted and bizarre than the last! Can our befuddled superheroine somehow undo this inexplicable Neverending Reboot—while simultaneously steering her love life in a boldly polyamorous new direction with Thugboy and Ninjette!—or is this The End for Emp and her chaotically convulsing cosmos? For mature audiences.

Attention, nerds! It’s me, Harley Quinn. I’ve got a brand-new collection coming your way from my incredible series, Harley Quinn (that’s easy to remember!) I know you bought those issues already, but since they’re bagged and slabbed, y’all need this edition to find out what’s happened to me! I was minding my own business, having a prank war with Two-Face, when some Lady Quark popped up and told me I was threatening reality everywhere. What?Anyway, Tini Howard (Catwoman) wrote up the details, and Sweeney Boo (Crush & Lobo) and Hayden Sherman (Batman/Superman: World’s Finest) drew them up really pretty with guests like Zatanna, Cap-tain Carrot, and of course, HIM (Batman, silly. Who else?), all helping me try to keep reality together. I just want to leave the Multiverse alone, do my community service, and adore my gal, Poison Ivy. And I’ll do ANYTHING to protect my Earth. Got it? Collects Harley Quinn #28-32 and Knight Terrors: Harley Quinn #1-2.

Sexy? Immeasurably! Superheroes? Countless! Comedy? Nigh infinite! Adam Warren''s Empowered takes the staid tropes of modern capes-and-tights fare and pummels them into "a fantastically rendered book on every conceivable level" (Comic Book Resources). And face-crackingly funny though it be, Empowered also delivers "genuinely affecting emotion" (Library Journal). You can at long last have your cake and eat it, too! Collects Empowered volumes 7, 8, and 9. For mature audiences.

Sexy? Aye! Superhero? Affirmative! Comedy? Yea, verily! Adam Warren''s critically acclaimed Empowered shakes the foundations of the heavens as "one of the great modern superhero comics" (View From the Gutters) that''s "laugh-out-loud funny" (Comics Worth Reading) while remarkably generating "genuinely affecting emotion" (Library Journal). Might such a miraculous melange portend "a fantastically rendered book on every conceivable level" (Comic Book Resources)? Certainement! An astonishing 674 pages collecting Empowered volumes 4, 5, and 6. For mature audiences.

Of course, it''s side-achingly funny. Sure, it''s eye-lovingly illustrated. But is it just possibly the best send-up of superheroes yet created? In a word...duh! Adam Warren''s Empowered rattles the capes-and-tights cage in a manner well-deserved for said enclosure, but That''s Not All, true believer. There is "genuinely affecting emotion" (Library Journal). And it''s for "real, live adults" (MTV Geek News). In fact, Empowered is "a fantastically rendered book on every conceivable level" (Comic Book Resources). Don''t be a coward, get Empowered! Collects Empowered volumes 1, 2, and 3. For mature audiences.

Costumed crimefighter Empowered finds herself the desperate prey of a maniacal supervillain whose godlike powers have turned an entire city of suprahumans against her. Not good! Outnumbered and under siege, aided only by a hero''s ghost, can Emp survive the relentless onslaught long enough to free her enslaved teammates and loved ones, or is this--*gulp*--The End? From comics overlord Adam Warren comes Empowered, the acclaimed sexy superhero comedy--except when it isn''t, as in this volume''s no-nonsense, wall-to-wall brawl guaranteed to bring tears to the eye and fists to the face!

The goblins from Paizo''s Pathfinder RPG are pint-sized psychopaths, wreaking havoc across the land. Infamous for their unpredictable attacks, catchy raiding songs, hatred of dogs, and fear of horses, goblins blend mischief and murderousness like no other monsters.

Crimefighters Empowered and Ninjette struggle with a superhero community fatally inflamed by rampant romance, courtesy of the passion powers of embittered "magical-girl" The Soldier of Love. If she prevails, love is toast! Collects Empowered and the Soldier of Love #1-3 plus Adam Warren''s "Pew! Pew! Pew!" Empowered one-shot. For mature audiences.

While the embattled Empowered and Sistah Spooky struggle through the high-school hellscape''s final, grueling classroom deathtraps, the ruthless ''''Game of Blondes'''' among Spooky''s quite literally soulless ex-classmates reaches a crescendo of violence and treachery—and ''''levels-up'''' the survivors to near-godlike status! Look out, Emp and Spooky! Like, yikes! Artist Carla Speed McNeil is the acclaimed creator of Finder and artist of No Mercy, Queen and Country, and many more.

Adam Warren! Narrowly escaping death by music class singing competition, Empowered and Sistah Spooky hit a new low in their hellscape ordeal when they stumble into . . . THE LADIES'' ROOM! While a trapped Emp drowns in her own tears in a bathroom stall, can Spooky avoid being shattered--literally!--by a Hell-powered magic mirror? Carla Speed McNeil is the Eisner Award-winning creator of Finder.

Art by Carla Speed McNeil! Empowered''s "frenemy" Sistah Spooky was once a schoolgirl who sold her soul for hotness, but was granted even more magic than beauty. Now, both superheroines find themselves trapped in a high-school hellscape by Spooky''s Infernal Service ProviderÑwith her blonde ex-classmates plotting ritual murder to claim her magic for themselves! Empowered creator Adam Warren teams with Carla Speed McNeil, the award-winning creator of Finder and artist of No Mercy, Queen and Country, and many more.

Prepare your puny intellect for wonders awe-inspiring, comedy gut-busting, and images steamy set loose from within the hulking tome that is Adam Warren''s Empowered Deluxe Edition Volume 3. Captured within its vast confines are the entireties of Empowered volumes 7, 8, and 9 plus a priceless hoard of hidden delights, including unpublished artwork, author''s notes, and arcane wisdom both illuminating and terrifying to behold! A hardcover gift to Humankind of over 700 pages and limited to a single majestic printing! • Hardcover edition, 704 pages, limited to one printing! • Over 150,000 Empowered volumes sold! • Shrink-wrapped to protect the meek!

Costumed crimefighter Empowered, delighted by her long-delayed promotion to full-time membership in the Superhomeys, enjoys a suprasocial-media "victory lap." But will her newfound satisfaction survive the challenges of obnoxious "white knights," disturbing cryoprison visits, alarming alien medical scans and--worst of all--the revelation of a lover''s dark secret? * Over 250,000 copies sold of Empowered volumes! "Adam Warren continues to beat the odds and persists in getting better and better with his spicy superhero romp."--Johnny Bacardi, Popdose.com

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

With every Empowered Special collected under one vast roof, Empowered Unchained sprays a searing shrapnel salvo of scintillating superhero satire, written by the almighty Adam Warren and illustrated by comicdom''s most talented and feared makers of pictures heroic! Featuring graverobbing supervillains! Broom-swinging vigilantes! Slutty cyberangels! Animal crimebots! Boozy ninja! Angry spaceships! And more! And more! AND MORE!

GIANT-SIZE KUNG FU BIBLE STORIES, edited by Erik Larsen (SAVAGE DRAGON) and Bruce Timm (Batman Adventures: Mad Love), features original stories of the worldÕs greatest cartoonists, and is a must-have. GIANT-SIZE KUNG FU BIBLE STORIES includes seven awe-inspiring, pulse-pounding stories from Erik Larsen, Bruce Timm, Adam Warren (Empowered), Tom Scioli (G¯DLAND), Ryan Ottley (INVINCIBLE), and Andy Kuhn (FIREBREATHER), and four breathtaking pinups by Arthur Adams (Uncanny X-Men).

Costumed crime fighter Empowered, already reeling from "The Worst Book Proposal Ever," finds herself roped into a desperate scheme by her grief-stricken teammate, Sistah Spooky. Journeying from a terrifying alien arsenal to the even-more-terrifying depths of hell itself, can the mismatched superheroines free the soul of Spooky''s lover from eternal damnation? * Over 100,000 copies of Empowered volumes in print! "Adam Warren continues to beat the odds and persists in getting better and better with his spicy superhero romp."—Johnny Bacardi, Popdose.com "A sort of R-rated sitcom exploring geek culture from the inside out... It''s full of exploitative, titillating imagery."—J. Caleb Mozzocco, Las Vegas Weekly

Kick back and have a cold one with hearty-partying Ninjette, Empowered''s Best Friend Forever, as she weaves a boozy yet poignant tale of ninja magic, complete with fighting, flirting, and swing-dancing with the Maidmannot to mention the outwitting of ''Jette''s monstrous thug of a father. Drink up! * Story (and bonus art) by Adam Warren, spectacularly illustrated by manga creator Takeshi Miyazawa (_Lost Planet Bound Raven, Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane_) * Over 100,000 _Empowered_ graphic novels in print.

The steamy cape-and-tights comedy so outrageous that the bonds of regular graphic novels could not hold the laughs within, Empowered has expanded into a tome so massive that even the superpowered can barely lift it!

The badass, broom-swinging vigilante Maidman, the cross-dressing crusader,� is interviewed by the super-phony celebricape� TV host of an ill-fated talk show. The confab soon degenerates from happy chatter to cape-on-cape violence! Meanwhile, costumed crime fighter Empowered exploits Maidman''s fearsome reputation not only to victimize hapless supervillains, but also to get the upper hand on her recalcitrant boyfriend! In a new one-shot spinning off from the sexy superhero comedy graphic-novel series _Empowered_, creator Adam Warren draws fourteen black-and-white pages that frame and cruelly interrupt a fifteen-page story painted in glorious full color by special guest artist Emily No Relation� Warren! "A fantastically rendered book on every conceivable level."Comic Book Resources

By the end of the eighteenth century, Peru had witnessed the decline of its once-thriving silver industry and had barely begun to recover from massive population losses due to smallpox and other diseases. At the time, it was widely believed that economic salvation was contingent upon increasing the labor force and maintaining as many healthy workers as possible. In Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru, Adam Warren presents a groundbreaking study of the primacy placed on medical care to generate population growth during this era. The Bourbon reforms of the eighteenth century shaped many of the political, economic, and social interests of Spain and its colonies. In Peru, local elites saw the reforms as an opportunity to positively transform society and its conceptions of medicine and medical institutions in the name of the Crown. Creole physicians, in particular, took advantage of Bourbon reforms to wrest control of medical treatment away from the Catholic Church, establish their own medical expertise, and create a new, secular medical culture. They asserted their new influence by treating smallpox and leprosy, by reforming medical education, and by introducing hygienic routines into local funeral rites, among other practices. Later, during the early years of independence, government officials began to usurp the power of physicians and shifted control of medical care back to the church. Creole doctors, without the support of the empire, lost much of their influence, and medical reforms ground to a halt. As Warren’s study reveals, despite falling in and out of political favor, Bourbon reforms and creole physicians were instrumental to the founding of modern medicine in Peru, and their influence can still be felt today.

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 save the (semi)living superdead from a very genuine "fate worse than death," while simultaneously grappling with the challenges of vengefully vacationing ninja clans, car-trunk carpet burn, superhero-fantasy-league drafts, excessive bedroom chatter, and deals with the devil both figurative and literal! All this, plus Emp''s not-so-secret origin is revealed at last! * Adam Warren''s work on The Dirty Pair is well known to U.S. comics readers. For mature audiences. "A sort of R-rated sitcom exploring geek culture from the inside out, Empowered has its cake and eats it too-it''s full of exploitative, titillating imagery, but it also features the healthiest and the most realistic romantic relationship in any comic book featuring capes and masks." -J. Caleb Mozzocco, Las Vegas

After saving much of the superhero community from certain doom, costumed crime fighter Empowered is dismayed to find that, in the suspicious eyes of her caped colleagues, she''s gone from being merely a "pair of training wheels for supervillains" to possibly being a closeted supervillain herself! Worse yet, she''s wrestling with envy and resentment that her roommate Ninjette and boyfriend Thugboy are now more popular in masks-and-tights circles than she is! Meanwhile, our stressed-out superheroine must also unravel an alien-spawned body-image conspiracy, overcome "cosplay" dress-up disasters at work and in bed, and try to survive a potentially lethal confrontation with her teammate Sistah Spooky! * Empowered Vol. 1 is already in its fourth printing! * A New York Times bestseller! * Adam Warren''s work on The Dirty Pair is well known to U.S. comics readers. For mature audiences.

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.

The Dirty Pair face their greatest challenge yet when Kei confronts the awesome horror of...her employee evaluation! It looks simple: simulations are generated by the Central Computer to test her responses, but when a mysterious malfunction traps Kei in virtual reality, Yuri must enter the sim to save her from a series of increasingly night-marish scenarios. From outer space to the ocean depths to the infinity of cyberspace, can Kei and Yuri survive the simulated -- but still lethal -- terrors of the apocalyptic Nanoclysm?

In the cyberpunk future, the Worlds Welfare Work Association is an important weapon against crime. 3WA''s best operatives, Kei and Yuri - the Lovely Angels - also have a reputation for causing catastrophe in the execution of their duties, and have earned a new nickname: the Dirty Pair.

In the cyberpunk future, the Worlds Welfare Work Association is an important weapon against crime. 3WA''s best operatives, Kei and Yuri - the Lovely Angels - also have a reputation for causing catastrophe in the execution of their duties, and have earned a new nickname: the Dirty Pair.