September brings us a new volume of Adam Warren’s Empowered.
Yes, it looks like something an adult should be ashamed to be caught reading in public, but it’s hilarious, features ample beefcake, and one of the few non-insane super-heroes is a cross-dresser.
On the manga front, Dark Horse is also bringing out another CLAMP omnibus, this time for Magic Knight Rayearth, so fans of subtext in their manga should look for that.
I’ll say this for Marvel…
At least they’re equal opportunity in their crass exploitation of their audience.
While it’s nice to see Young Avengers back properly, with the original creative team, instead of the “hey, remember, this book exists” specials and one-shots by pinch-hitters…it honestly feels like almost all the momentum from that series has been lost. It’s been five line-wide cross-overs since the series ended.
Of course, that someone, somewhere, thought that what was missing from Marvel’s line-up was a soft-core X-Men comic pretty much invalidates my “equal opportunity” comment about exploitation.
In the Books section, we’ve got Hip Pocket Sleaze, a history of lurid paperbacks of the 60s and 70s. Books like this are where a lot of gay and lesbian literature got published at the time, so between my historical interest and my appreciation of the artwork, I’m going to be keeping an eye out for this.
I can’t help but feel that Tonner is missing a bet by not including an Ianto figure in their Torchwood assortment.
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John Barrowman only WISHES his face were that smooth.
Empowered is an amazing book in that it manages to be sexy and bawdy while at the same time mature and unexpectedly sweet.
Who’s the artist on the X-Men swimsuit issue there?