EMPOWERED OMNIBUS TP VOL 01 Collecting CAPTAIN AMERICA: SAM WILSON

Collecting CAPTAIN AMERICA: SAM WILSON #7-8 and AVENGERS STANDOFF: ASSAULT ON PLEASANT HILL ALPHA and OMEGA

Marvel get Spidey out of a jam

Brian hastily pulled together A Fire Story and posted it online

Fifteen years ago

and gatecrash Spider-Man's volatile first meeting with Nightcrawler -- this ain't no team-up

EMPOWERED OMNIBUS TP VOL 01 Collecting CAPTAIN AMERICA: SAM WILSONOf 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