Adam Warren Livres

In the cyberpunk future, the Worlds Welfare Work Association is an important weapon against crime, and 3WA operatives Kei and Yuri -- the Lovely Angels -- are their best, famous for always getting their man. Unfortunately, they also have a reputation for catastrophe as in the execution of their duties they accidentally level cities, continents, and even planets. They're always cleared of responsibility, but they've earned a new nickname -- The Dirty Pair. Now they have an assignment on the satellite Kalevela -- to stop industrial terrorists from snagging a powerful bomb. At stake is the satellite's survival. Everything should be a breeze -- if they can just get over their streak of bad luck....

Mega-Tokyo, 2031. The Great Kanto earthquake six years earlier has left scars the city won't soon forget. Even as its glorious Genom tower rises higher with repairs, in its shadow creeps a new wave of crime, a sign that beneath the growing prosperity and recovery is an undercurrent of discontent . . . a world on the brink of exploding. And if the Armored Defense Police can't prevent the bubble from bursting, then the four-woman vigilante unit known as Knight Sabers will suit up for action!

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.

Not only is costumed crimefighter "Empowered" saddled with a less-than-ideal superhero name, but she wears a skintight and cruelly revealing "supersuit" that only magnifies her body-image insecurities. Worse yet, the suit's unreliable powers are prone to failure, repeatedly leaving her in appallingly distressing situations... and giving her a shameful reputation as the lamest "cape" in the masks-and-tights business. Nonetheless, she pluckily braves the ordeals of her bottom-rung superheroic life with the help of her "thugalicious" boyfriend (and former Witless Minion) and her hard-drinking ninja girlfriend, not to mention the supervillainous advice from the caged alien demonlord watching DVDs from atop her coffee table . . .From Adam Warren-writer/artist of the English-language Dirty Pair comics (the original "Original English-Language Manga" before OEL was cool), and writer of Livewires, Gen13, and Iron Hypervelocity- comes Empowered , a butt-kicking, bootylicious superhero lampoon that raises the bar for long-john lust and low-brow laughs. Remove all previous notions of superhero entertainment from your puny mind... and prepare to be Empowered!* Adam Warren's work on The Dirty Pair is well-known to U.S. comics readers.* Warren's skill as a writer has brought him a variety of high-profile assignments in recent years from Wildstorm, DC, and Marvel.For Mature Readers.

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! From Adam Warren - writer/artist of the English-language The Dirty Pair comics (the original "Original English-Language Manga") and writer of Livewires, Gen13, and Iron Man: Hypervelocity - comes Empowered, a kickass long-john lampoon that flies to new heights of hotness and hilarity.

As if life as an often-struggling superheroine weren't already hard enough, now costumed crimefighter "Empowered" discovers that another female superhero is ripping off her distress-prone persona - and cashing in, big-time! Even worse, her relationship with live-in boyfriend (and semi-reformed Witless Minion) Thugboy has run afoul of an extremely literal set of "power issues"! Worse yet, a singularly bloodthirsty and ruthless ninja clan is gunning - no, make that shurikening - for Emp's best friend and karaoke partner, Ninjette! Can our unlucky but still plucky heroine prevail over all these obstacles as well as further threats posed by foreign fanfiction outrages, her own supersuit's attempts to manipulate her self-esteem, and the revelation of (gasp!) her real name?

While costumed crimefighter Empowered makes a startling discovery regarding her unfortunate status as an all-too-frequent "damsel in distress," her hard-drinking best friend, Ninjette, confronts her own sordid past, violent present, and frighteningly uncertain future as she fights a desperate, single-handed battle against an entire clan of supernaturally durable ninja warriors. Can our two hard-luck heroines also withstand the further perils posed by supervillainous minivans, dueling sets of "daddy issues," doomed-but-still-hot boyfriends, undead karaoke party-crashers, and even "spoiler alerts from hell itself" foretold by infernally omniscient demonspawn?

Přichází z budoucnosti, aby zabil jediného člověka, který může zachránit lidskou rasu. Je nezničitelný a neskutečně populární. Zkáza se přesune na nová místa: do Ruska, kde stále zuří studená válka mezi stroji, do arizonské pouště, kde se terminátor setká s detektivem, satanistickým gangem a zlatokopem, do New Yorku na oslavu nového roku, a do porodnice, kde Sarah Connorová přivádí na svět spasitele lidstva. První Terminátor se objevil v roce 1990 a do roku 2000 se pustil do křížku nejen se Sarah Connorovou, ale také s RoboCopem, Supermanem, Vetřelci a Predátorem. Druhá kniha nabízí delší příběhy, které rozvíjejí klasickou filmovou ságu a mapují svět před i po katastrofě. Skynet hledá nové způsoby, jak vyhladit zbytek lidské populace, a nebezpečí číhá na každém kroku. Příběhy napsali jak zkušený vypravěč James Robinson, tak i Alan Grant. Mezi kreslíři se objevují legendární Guy Davis a Steve Pugh, zatímco Jackson Guice přináší perfekcionisticky čistou linku. Terminátoři nepotřebují spát, jídlo ani vodu. Jsou to stroje, vyslané z budoucnosti, aby zlikvidovali všechny, kteří by jim mohli zabránit v ovládnutí světa. Válka o budoucnost začíná už dnes.