Volume 1 Page 128
Posted January 1, 2016 at 12:01 am

Panel 3 presents the mildly disturbing image of Emp’s Big, Pouty Lips—a frequent fixture of early to mid-period Empowered, I admit—rendered visibly cracked and dessicated by illness. On the other hand, if you’re put off by our heroine’s often oversized embouchure, you can always look to panels 1 and 5 for shots where Emp’s Big Pouty Lips have suddenly transmuted to Thin, Cartoony Lips. What can I say, folks? I rather like working in a loose and flexible artistic idiom that allows me to toggle between varying forms of stylization and exaggeration—or, more crassly, to freely import techniques borrowed from an ever-expanding panoply of inspiring artists.

Panel 4’s shot of Emp’s supersuit being run through a kitchen-sink garbage disposal does bring up the troublesome question of what happens to the hypermembrane’s stray scraps and tatters when it gets torn up. For the record, I did, in fact, long ago devise an answer to said troublesome question, but have never quite gotten around to directly addressing this matter in an Empowered comic. Same deal, by the way, for the never-addressed but often-asked query about why the beyond-skintight supersuit never shows, ah, “camel toe” on our embarrassment-prone heroine. Perhaps someday I’ll get around to showing whassup with these lingering hypermembrane questions—or perhaps not, given that I’ve already gone 2000+ pages without providing any answers. 

-Adam Warren

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