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MOTW 9/2/2015
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Burnished BovineThe sunny beaches of CanadaRegistered User regular
Got Empowered Vol.9 in the mail this week, and it almost immediately cemented itself as my MOTW book.
Empowered is an excellent series and I highly recommend it. It keeps getting better with every book. This volume resolves both events from the previous book and a plot thread that's been left dangling since book 4, and Emp herself gets a couple of absolutely amazing moments, especially towards the end.
One small bit I really liked (minor spoilers from earlier volume 6 as well):
As with every volume, there was a big dose of world-building and tons of wacky new characters. And yes, more than a couple shots of Emp being tied up, super-suit shredded, barely concealed caboose on display. There's a mid-book intermission story where she has a few things to say about that sort of thing, and those who might find themselves a little too focused on it.
Honestly, the story is so good that I really don't notice any of the explicit sexy stuff anymore... all that much. Really!
Empowered is an excellent series and I highly recommend it. It keeps getting better with every book. This volume resolves both events from the previous book and a plot thread that's been left dangling since book 4, and Emp herself gets a couple of absolutely amazing moments, especially towards the end.
One small bit I really liked (minor spoilers from earlier volume 6 as well):
One of the many, many supravillains that crosses paths with Emp this volume is Deathmonger, the creepy undead necrotech super-scientist who was the big bad of volume 6, revealing that he was not destroyed as the end of that book suggested - "I am rather notoriously difficult to kill... in part, of course, because I am already dead." However, he makes no attempt to capture or kill Empowered, out of what Deathmonger calls "A token - if temporary - measure of suprahuman solidarity between two misunderstood ladycapes" revealing that he is, in fact, a she, and that everyone simply assumed she was male.
A minor point in the face of all the other events of the book, but it made me giggle gleefully for a good 3 minutes. I like that Empowered now has something like a female arch-nemesis, and she's one of the most feared and lethal characters in the series.
A minor point in the face of all the other events of the book, but it made me giggle gleefully for a good 3 minutes. I like that Empowered now has something like a female arch-nemesis, and she's one of the most feared and lethal characters in the series.
As with every volume, there was a big dose of world-building and tons of wacky new characters. And yes, more than a couple shots of Emp being tied up, super-suit shredded, barely concealed caboose on display. There's a mid-book intermission story where she has a few things to say about that sort of thing, and those who might find themselves a little too focused on it.
Honestly, the story is so good that I really don't notice any of the explicit sexy stuff anymore... all that much. Really!
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And alas, poor Manny.
Yeah, that level of amusement is pretty much the 'default state' when reading an Empowered story.
After a few volumes in, once the major players have been introduced and have grown on you, and you realize you actually enjoy these characters (and holy shit, a healthy romance in a comic book)... the comic pulls a Negima! and switches from a fun lighthearted comedy into serious ongoing story and character arcs where shit goes down, feels get critically hit, and I dare you not to cry at some points.
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Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Emp get called in to the big superhuman ruling council to answer for all the shenanigans that have cropped up around her.
Major Havoc however is not part of the council and will probably have a hateboner for Emp.
That is a silly name for a thing. So I went and looked up info about it.
I'm happy now.
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Sex & the Cthulhu Mythos
I also love his insane character ideas in his works.
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