I'm desperately trying not to have to answer that question in deciding if Adam Warren's latest release, the Empowered Volume 2 collection, is any good or not, but I just can't get away from it. Warren's art is very gorgeous, and I'd like to think you'd forgive a talent like his just about anything. His stories are funny, albeit in a knowing, nerdy way, and decent humour in comic books is actually a surprisingly rare thing these days.
But despite all this I still can't quite buy into this 'post-modernist' excuse for the nudity, bondage and degradation that is the core of his comedy. Didn't we do all that post-modernism crap back in the nineties? Ultimately, Empowered is just a one-joke comic, and the joke is probably (hopefully) a little anachronistic by now. Mr. Warren, please use your talents to draw something else.
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