Empowered

Darkling Bright

Chris Hazelton

Kieran Bright is a college student home for the summer and roped into an online reunion with his old neighborhood friends in the most recent update of their favorite childhood MMORPG. At least, he was, and that was the idea... Join Kieran and his friends as they are pulled into another reality that may or may not be real and are forced to confront their own identities, the nature of simulated universes and reality itself.

The Golden Boar

Magnolia Porter Siddell

A young woman joins a group of summoners who call forth Guardian Beasts to protect their isolated magical island. Unfortunately, her Guardian Beast is nothing like she'd imagined, and he's about to change her life, and everything she thought she knew about herself...

The Last Diplomat

Cat Farris

Samma and Tark didn't ask to be stuck together, but now they're partners on the adventure of a lifetime.

Love Not Found

Gina Biggs

Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.

Nerf Now!!

Josué Pereira

A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.

Guilded Age

T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina

Welcome to the saga of the working-class adventurer! Enjoy the complete story with new annotations daily!

Dumbing of Age

David M Willis

Joyce has been homeschooled her entire life until now, when she's suddenly a freshman in college! Things don't go well.

Nigh Heaven & Hell

Scotty

Heather Vodihn is on a simple mission: find her father. However she becomes entangled with two strangers with mysterious powers being stalked by a group with bizarre demands. Heather must learn to trust her new traveling companions, even if she is untrustworthy herself.

Cassiopeia Quinn

Gunwild, Psudonym

A cute, pantsless thief is pursued across the stars by a buttoned-up military officer in the spacey, laser-filled future.

Namesake

Isa, Meg

There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!

Not Drunk Enough

Tess Stone

Logan Ibarra is possibly the unluckiest repairman in the world. A late night job should not have landed him in the middle of a mad scientist's squabble, but he soon finds himself surrounded by monsters and further madness with little tools to get out.

Barbarous

Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota

A crummy wizard and an anxious monster have to get over themselves and bring order to an apartment building full of misfits.

Stand Still, Stay Silent

Minna Sundberg

A few generations after the end of the world, a small, poorly financed research crew is sent out to rediscover whatever is left of the forbidden old world in the south.

Scape

Lauren

Sula has always preferred to forge her own path, but before she knows it, she is pulled into the middle of a civil war between man and monster!

Missing Monday

Elle Skinner

Two girls fall in love through a magic door connecting their worlds. When Monday suddenly goes missing, it's up to Foyle to find her. How she's going to navigate an entirely unfamiliar world is another matter.

Monsterkind

Taylor C

Wallace Foster, a young, bright-eyed human social worker, has his entire world view rocked when he's suddenly relocated into a city primarily inhabited by monsters.

Star Impact

Jack McGee

A young, energetic woman fights her way up in the world of super-powered boxing after discovering the mighty gloves of her missing idol!

The Weave

Rennie Kingsley

A young woman pursued by bad luck is witness to the murder of the Fairy Queen of Summer. Can she get to the bottom of this mystery?

Alice and the Nightmare

Misha Krivanek

Alice finally attends University to learn to collect the dreams of humans, meet new friends, and deal with a pesky reflection along the way.

Headless Bliss

Clover

A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!

Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life

Reimena Yee

The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.

Blindsprings

Kadi Fedoruk

Tamaura, wrested into a world 300 years in the future, must find a way to save the magic fading from her country.

Kochab

Sarah Webb

A YA F/F fantasy comic about Sonya, a lost skier trying to survive a snowy wilderness and find her way back to her village; and Kyra - a fire spirit trying to fix the home that she let fall apart around her.

Sakana

Mad Rupert

Our heroes must navigate a hazardous dating scene, overcome personal anxieties, and wrangle unruly seafood in order to find love, peace of mind, and a paycheck.

Beeserker

TJ Cordes

This comic is about a robot powered by bees, but it's also about the kind of people who think filling a robot with bees is a good idea, and why they're wrong.

Astral Aves

Moon Cabal

A fantasy coming-of-age following the adventures of Astra The Black and friends, as they navigate the mysterious world around them. It's politics, adventure, and the supernatural; oh, and crazy hair.

The Substitutes

Myisha Haynes

What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?

Cyanide & Happiness

Explosm

Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.

The Forgotten Order

Christy

A young witch for whom every spell is a misfire finds solace and friendship in her new companion - a cursed doll.

Augustine

Winter Jay Kiakas, Windy

August and her ragtag group are just like everyone else, simply surviving in the treacherous Crater... When they stumble into what may be an artifact of the ancient past, their lives are thrown into a much bigger loop as they trifle with bounty hunters, monsters and gods.

Lies Within

Lacey

Lysander's aimless and carefree life is turned upside down when he accidentally discovers that the cute boy next door, Simon, is a literal monster

Gzhel Guardian

Atla Hrafney, nushanchel

The Railway World is a complex, mysterious network of trains, towns and mechanical monsters. Leo is a Guardian of one of these towns, and although their burn-out and depression has taken hold of them, they have one last job to finish.

Sister Claire

Yamino

In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.

Within

Verena Loisel

A young hitman meanders between a reality that seems to happen without him, and his dreams where he is lost in an endless house. When he makes an accidental friend, his world is shaken up and he realizes there are things he can't remember about himself.

Quick$ilver

Crypto

The flirtatious, directionless, and ever disastrous Luci searches for excitement in a life of crime, and finds himself caught in a web of messy romance and bad blood.

Sleepless Domain

Mary Cagle (Cube Watermelon)

In a world where magical girls and their battles are commonplace, loss has become all too common as well.

Freakshow

Scotty

A festival of broken people, blood flows in the center ring. Come one and come all, to the greatest show in all of Paris.

ARISE, YE SKELETON KING

Brian Clevinger, Escher Cattle, Lee Black

A troupe of wandering "adventurers" down to their last silver "acquire" a map only to find the real treasure was the fiend they dug up along the way.

Aquapunk

In an underwater world of unknown coordinates, inhabited by aliens, ghosts, and robots, a young member of a warrior underclass is framed for a crime and goes on the run. Little does he know he is part of a grand design that only gods and ancestors could choreograph.

Trying Human

IntroducingEmy

Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!

Saint for Rent

Ru Xu

Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.

Ride or Die

Mars Heyward

Ride or Die is an LGBTQ webcomic about two street racers who team up with a demon-possessed muscle car in the search for a missing woman, while being hunted by a deadly religious cult.

Goodbye to Halos

Valerie Halla

Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!

Empowered

Adam Warren

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

How to be a Werewolf

Shawn Lenore

Malaya Walters was bitten by a werewolf as a child. After being raised by her human family, she faces the chance to learn what being a werewolf is really like as an adult.

Edison Rex

Chris Roberson

The adventures of the world’s greatest villain who, after defeating his superheroic nemesis, decides that he’s the only one left to defend the world.

Little Tiny Things

Clover

What are the little things that move us? The simple joys that warm our bodies and hearts? The micro life of insects that influence our world more than we think? The tiny steps we make everyday to have a happier tomorrow?

The Soldier of Love p.33

Posted April 8, 2025 at 12:01 am

We continue serialization of the collected version of the three-issue 2017 miniseries Empowered and the Soldier of Love, written and laid out by me and featuring full-color artwork by the Chilean webcomic artist Karla Diaz.

Ehh, might have to sound the dreaded Overdialoguing Alert on this page, as I probably should've cut the Emp insert panel (and its two word balloons) in panel 4 to reduce verbiage; note also that her wee dialogue in that panel is more than a tad disturbing...

Panel 5: Bargainer Syndrome (last mentioned with the Superdead in Empowered vol. 6, IIRC) returns!

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. However, my vast archive of years of Patreon posts—extensive Empowered previews, work-in-progress updates on developmental projects such as fantasy comics The Chaste and the Chained and The Last Party, vintage con sketches, work stages on covers, "damsel in distress" commissions, life drawings & much, much more—remains available for Patrons' perusal.

-Adam Warren

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