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Demon's Mirror

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Atomic Robo

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Kiwi Blitz

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Alice and the Nightmare

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Caramel Corn

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Sufficiently Remarkable

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Monsterkind

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Wilde Life

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Monster Pulse

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Fireweeds Moors

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Goodbye to Halos

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Between Failures

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Real Science Adventures

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Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!

Devil's Candy

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Guilded Age

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[un]Divine

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Godslave

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The Sanity Circus

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El Goonish Shive

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Star Impact

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Lilith's Word

inkPangur

If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?

The Lonely Vincent Bellingham

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Empowered

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A sexy superhero comedy (except when it isn't) about the never-ending struggles of a plucky but very unlucky young superheroine.

Sam & Fuzzy

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Paranatural

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Superpowered middle schoolers fight evil spirits in their rural hometown. Come for the jokes, stay for the cast, the creatures, and the mystery that ties them all together!

Knights Errant

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Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.

Pew Pew Pew! p.17

Posted July 21, 2025 at 12:01 am

We continue serialization of the 2015 one-shot Empowered: Pew Pew Pew!, written and drawn by yours truly.

Gotta say, I'm no longer sure if "listicles" are still rampaging unchecked online as they once did in days of yore, as I've not clicked on such a list in many years. (Er, unless we're talking about favored guntubers cranking out "Top 5" listings for various types of firearms, which I do check out on YouTube quite often.)

Panel 2: Good thing so many supervills happen to carry rolls of duct tape, right? (In fact, this specific issue winds up being addressed in the upcoming-to-the-webcomic Empowered vol. 12.)

Today’s Patreon update: Originally done as a means of scratching out more worktime to complete the long-gestating Empowered vol. 12, I've switched over to a Monday/ Wednesday/ Friday Patreon posting schedule that won't feature the fixed content format I previously used. So, who knows what today's post might feature? Could be Life Drawing or Distressed Damsels content (both of which are featured at least three times per month), or something in the Work Stages, Vintage Con Sketches or Design departments, or possibly something entirely new, such as updates on fantasy test projects The Last Party and The Chaste and the Chained. Golly!

-Adam Warren

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