I just found out a few days ago that EMPOWERED vol. 1 has run into problems at the printer, and thus its ship date will be delayed at least a week, to March 14th... (and possibly even longer, though I'm told that's quite unlikely).
I'm choosing to perceive this as A Good Thing, Sorta, in the hopes that the delay will ensure top-quality printing on the book... and top-quality printing is absolutely essential for EMPOWERED, given that its interior pages are greyscale-repro'd from pencil-based originals. As noted before, Dark Horse has a 14-page preview of the book online, over at:
http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/preview.php?theid=14-043
...and a further preview of another EMPOWERED short story is lurking over in "My Pics," if you wanna take a look; also, more EMPOWERED artwork can be found on my deviantArt page:
http://adamwarren.deviantart.com/
Anyhoo, sorry for the delay, folks. I'll keep you apprised on further developments... and regardless, I'll be posting longer excerpts of EMPOWERED stories both here and in deviantArt as we approach the book's release date.
On the other hand, as far as I know, the third issue of my Marvel miniseries, IRON MAN: HYPERVELOCITY, will still be shipping on time on Wednesday, March 7th. Yippee! I'd hoped to experience the first "Comics Convergence" of my career by having two, count 'em TWO of my books drop on the same day... but sadly, events have conspired against me. (Stupid events, why do you conspire against me? What did I ever do to you, events?) Oh, well.
Have a good-ish one,
AW