Volume 2 Page 67
Posted September 6, 2016 at 12:01 am

I’ve not bothered to flog this point during the last month of Deadpool-related terror, but might I draw your attention to the new-ish selection of luxurious, 12” X 18” full-color Empowered prints now available for $15 each over in the Store link? (Well, one of them is “full-color” in that it’s black, white and red, but I believe the point still stands.) Right now we’ve got only four such prints available—including the riotous crowd-scene cover illo from 2017’s Empowered Deluxe vol.3 collection—but we hope to expand the selection in the future. If you have any particular pieces of Empowered artwork that you’d like to see as a print, feel free to lemme know in the ol’ comments below.

Panels 1-3: I don’t use three-panel progressions like this very often, due to the tedium of having to redraw the same set-up and background (or “BG”) elements multiple times, but they can nonetheless be an effective storytelling tool. Note that I drew the panel as a reasonably tight close-up on Goatee Boy in part to cut down on the amount of BG repetition required, but also because I felt his facial expression was the most important part of the sequence.

Note also that, if you go back to the beginning of this story, you can see that Goatee Boy’s character design has drifted quite a bit. His goatee and hair have grown a fair bit, his facial structure has narrowed, and he looks a little bit younger, somehow. I think this is largely because, circa 2006, I set this story aside for a few months before coming back to it and adding the new sequence that kicks off with this page. In fact, if I recall correctly from the beer-hazy, halcyon days of millennial-ish yore, this story originally ended quite differently, as Emp actually awoke from a nightmare. Yeahp, in the first draft of this story, Treacherous Girl’s betrayal and Emp’s stripping and Inappropriate Touching were all naught but a bad dream! (Or at least I think so, as I can’t dig up the original draft right now.) 

Panel 5: Yes indeed, Goatee Boy and Treacherous (and/or Lecherous) Girl are related, as the “Mom’s car” line hints. Does seem a tad irresponsible to use poor Mom’s car for a “superkidnapping” scheme, but as we’ve seen, these two aren’t the most overwhelmingly scrupulous wannabe criminals around.

-Adam Warren

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