Best Selling Books by Adam Warren

"Already under suspicion and suspended from her superteam, costumed crime fighter Empowered finds herself the bewildered target of every major supervillain in the cape-and-tights field for her supposed access to alien technology. Underestimated as she is, can our long-suffering but plucky heroine outwit her tormentors--and escape the sinister Fleshmaster''s revenge?"--

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 shrapnel salvo of sizzling superhero satire, written by the almighty Adam Warren and illustrated by Warren and comicdom’s most feared makers of pictures heroic! Featuring grave-robbing supervillains! Broom-swinging vigilantes! Slutty cyberangels! Animal crimebots! Boozy ninja! Angry spaceships! And more! “Adam Warren continues to beat the odds and persists in getting better and better with his spicy superhero romp.”—Popdose “The short and skinny is that this is a book that is silly and fun on the surface, but has a lot more working for it underneath.”—Florida Geek Scene

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.

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!

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.

Adam Warren teams with Eisner award winner Carla Speed McNeil, creator of Finder, in a hellishly funny superhero smackdown! Empowered and "frenemy" Sistah Spooky are trapped in a twisted high-school hellscape, with Spooky''s blonde, sold-their-souls-for-hotness, ex-classmates plotting ritual murder to claim her magic for themselves! Beset by giant biology-class frogs, deadly emoji, and a monstrous junk-food elemental, Emp and Spooky fight for their lives against straight-fire blonde ambition! Hell is for heroines!

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.

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.

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. "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

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.

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.

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.

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).

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!

At the Purple Paladin Memorial Hospital''s terrifying Suprahuman Treatment Wing, Dr. Big McLarge Huge recruits costumed crimefighter Empowered and her best friend Ninjette to save a five-mile-wide alien mothership''s parasite-infested babyshipif, that is, our heroines can even survive the elevator ride up to the operating room! * Story (and bonus art) by Adam Warren, illustrated by rising star Brandon Graham (_Prophet, King City, Multiple Warheads_) * 30 story pages! * Over 100,000 _Empowered_ graphic novels in print. _Empowered_ stands as one of the great modern superhero comics.�_View From The Gutters_

**Over 150,000 _Empowered_ graphic novels in sold!** The laser blasts fly as costumed crime fighter Empowered battles a series of puzzlingly rage-fueled supervillains, each one armed with a bigger and more destructive ���supergun��_ than the last. Ah, but might our long-suffering heroine���s own buried resentments and repressed bitterness prove to be her deadliest foes? (_SPOILER: Yes, pretty much_.) * All story and art by series creator Adam Warren!

In 1786, Guatemalan priest Pedro José de Arrese published a work instructing readers on their duty to perform the cesarean operation on the bodies of recently deceased pregnant women in order to extract the fetus while it was still alive. Although the fetus’s long-term survival was desired, the overarching goal was to cleanse the unborn child of original sin and ensure its place in heaven. Baptism Through Incision presents Arrese’s complete treatise—translated here into English for the first time—with a critical introduction and excerpts from related primary source texts. Inspired by priests’ writings published in Spain and Sicily beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, Arrese and writers like him in Peru, Mexico, Alta California, Guatemala, and the Philippines penned local medico-religious manuals and guides for performing the operation and baptism. Comparing these texts to one another and placing them in dialogue with archival cases and print culture references, this book traces the genealogy of the postmortem cesarean operation throughout the Spanish Empire and reconstructs the transatlantic circulation of obstetrical and scientific knowledge around childbirth and reproduction. In doing so, it shows that knowledge about cesarean operations and fetal baptism intersected with local beliefs and quickly became part of the new ideas and scientific-medical advancements circulating broadly among transatlantic Enlightenment cultures. A valuable resource for scholars and students of colonial Latin American history, the history of medicine, and the history of women, reproduction, and childbirth, Baptism Through Incision includes translated excerpts of works by Spanish surgeon Jaime Alcalá y Martínez, Mexican physician Ignacio Segura, and Peruvian friar Francisco González Laguna, as well as late colonial Guatemalan instructions, and newspaper articles published in the Gazeta de México, the Gazeta de Guatemala, and the Mercurio Peruano.

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.

TERRORPIN! POWERPACHYDERM! BRASS MONKEY! CYBERIAN TIGER! SUPERCOBRA! MAUL BUNNY! Can struggling superheroine Empowered foil a mass carjacking by these animal-armored crimebots at the 21st annual Alternate Timeline Superhero Auto Show? Can one exceedingly flimsy "supersuit" overcome fourteen hostile tons of heavy metal? This action-packed new _Empowered_ one-shot says: "MAYBE!" 30 brand-new story pages, with art by mechs-master John Staton and major-color-domo Robaato, plus bonus art by Adam Warren! "_Empowered_ is the comic to give to people who don''t think superhero comics can be for real, live adults."MTV Geek News

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

Empowered returns for further misadventures, as a distress-prone girl wonder struggles with life on the superheroic C-list! Clad-or unclad, as fate would too often have it-in her embarrassingly revealing and maddeningly unreliable supersuit, she fights a neverending battle against overly sensitive supervillains, irrationally envious superheroines, and her own body-image issues! Meanwhile, her boyfriend, Thugboy, plays with fire when he foolhardily attempts to compliment his profoundly insecure sweetheart on the awe-inspiring power of her... well, booty. And her often-inebriated gal-pal, Ninjette, pursues a drunken and ultimately disastrous mission to acquire Empowered some respect-by force if necessary! All this, plus crossword-obsessed goons, speech-impaired superbeasts, "Ninjas Gone Wild," and even a few self-help hints from nigh-omnipotent cosmic overlords! You know, the usual. For Mature Readers.

Empowered and Sistah Spooky''s hellish high-school ordeal climaxes with a brutal hallway battle pitting the nearly powerless pair against Spooky''s final surviving classmates, who have ascended to blonde godhood after inheriting all the hellscape''s infernal magic. Can our hellbound heroines finally ''''graduate''''--or will they be lethally expelled? First Empowered comic-book series in standard comics format. Artist Carla Speed McNeil is the acclaimed creator of Finder!

Collects Domino (1997) #1-3, Domino (2003) #1-4, X-Force: Sex & Violence #1-3 and material from X-Force & Cable Annual ''95, A+X #10, Uncanny X-Men Annual (2016) #1. Lady lucku0092s got nothing on Domino! They say fortune favors the brave, and thereu0092s no merc braver than Neena Thurman. You were wowed by her probability-altering prowess in X-FORCE, and odds are good youu0092ll love her solo adventures, too! A rescue mission for the man she once loved pits Domino against Lady Deathstrike and Donald Pierce! Domino explores her uncanny origins as part of Project Armageddon u0097 and finds a strangely familiar face! And things get hot and heavy for Domino and Wolverine as theyu0092re caught between the Hand and the Assassins Guild! Plus: Domino battles Arcade, tries her luck alongside the Scarlet Witch and takes on the Terrigen Mists!

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.

Costumed crime fighter Empowered makes an ill-fated visit to a top-secret dumping ground for ultratech "superdebris" and wrecked "villainware" left over from cape-on-cape combat. Can Emp and her hapless teammate, Mechanismo, avoid annihilation when the junkyard nano spawns an apocalyptic cheesecake plague of flirty but lethal "cyberangels" and sensual but savage "devil mecha"? * 30 story pages! **Heaven goes to Hell!**

Trapped in the high-school hellscape''s cafeteria, Empowered and Sistah Spooky desperately battle the high-calorie threat of a ginormous junk-food elemental before facing off against a trio of Spooky''s vengeful ex-classmates, whose blonde manes have been infernally transformed into head-lopping Weapons of Magical Destruction! Off with their heads! Artist Carla Speed McNeil is the acclaimed creator of Finder and artist of No Mercy, Queen and Country, and many more.

Trapped in a high-school hellscape, can struggling superheroines Empowered and Sistah Spooky avoid dissection by giant, revenge-minded frogs in an infernal Biology classÑand can they survive spell-powered bullying by sneering, school-uniformed sorceresses wielding hellishly abusive text messages and emoji as shockingly lethal magic weapons?

Collects A+X (2012) #13-18.

Collects X-Men Unlimited (1993) #35, #37-39, #46-47 And #49-50; X-Men Unlimited (2004) #1; And Material From X-Men Unlimited (1993) #34, #36, #40-43 And #48. An array of talents unleash their imaginations on the mutants of Grant Morrison’s New X-Men! Phoenix, Wolverine, Beast, Storm, Psylocke, Cyclops, Rogue, Nightcrawler, Professor X and more take center stage in insightful and exciting solo stories — while foes steal the focus in tales of Magneto, Sabretooth and Juggernaut! But which camp does Emma Frost, the Xavier Institute’s newest teacher, belong to? Shadowcat grieves for her best friend, Illyana Rasputin — and her true love, Colossus! Storm battles Magneto and lets loose with Yukio! Two sinister sisters adopt Lockheed! Nightcrawler undertakes a swashbuckling rescue mission! Wolverine must protect a mystical sword! And are the X-Men ready for a movie about their lives?

Welcome to the world of MegaTokyo, 2032. The megacorporation Genom has turned the largest city on earth into a company town, after the disastrous Second Kanto Earthquake. Among Genom''s products are the biomechanical Boomers,'' powerful robot workers that are as much a threat as help. In the shadow of Genom, with the threat of the Boomers, one force rises to challenge them... the Knight Sabers!''

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 Elseworlds, heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places-some that have existed, or might have existed, and others that canÕt, couldnÕt or shouldnÕt exist. The result: stories that make characters who are as familiar as yesterday seem as fresh as tomorrow. Featuring the League of Justice battling the insane sorcerer Luithorr, Diana Prince and the Justice Riders against the evil robber baron Maxwell Lord, Batman and Superman as pulp heroes, a gender reversed WorldÕs Finest teaming up to save Lex Luthor and other tales! Now, for the first time, the Justice LeagueÕs prestige format Elseworlds tales are featured in a new graphic novel collection. Collects ELSEWORLDÕS FINEST #1-2, ELSEWORLDÕS FINEST: SUPERGIRL & BATGIRL, JUSTICE RIDERS, LEAGUE OF JUSTICE #1-2, TITANS: SCISSORS, PAPER, STONE, and WONDER WOMAN: AMAZONIA!

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.