In honor of the tenth anniversary of Adam Warren’s breakout hit Empowered, Dark Horse Comics recently announced the next installments in the Empowered series: Empowered and the Soldier of Love and Empowered Volume 10. Adam Warren (The Dirty Pair, Gen13) creates more adventures for his scantily-clad superheroine Emp while Karla Diaz (Cute Sins, Coffee Shop) applies her artistic skills to the Soldier of Love miniseries.
For those unfamiliar with the work, Empowered is a series of black-and-white, manga-style graphic novels that promotional materials describe as “a sexy superhero comedy — except when it’s not.” The story centers on Emp, a beautiful, often-insecure young superheroine who gets her powers from her (easily-destroyed) suit. Warren typically writes and draws Emp’s adventures, but this time, has brought in Diaz to provide the art on Soldier of Love.
Empowered and the Soldier of Love finds Emp battling the International Magical Girl of Mystery. Emp’s new foe is using her unearthly powers to inflame the superhero community’s passions and create tension and problems among her fellow Superhomeys. Empowered and the Soldier of Love’s first issue (of three) goes on sale February 8, 2017. Empowered Volume 10 will be available in summer 2017.
