We continue serialization of Empowered vol. 12, which proved to be the final volume of the series in this specific graphic-novel format, though I was unaware of that unfortunate reality when I started work on the book.

Panel 2: Gotta say that I do rather like the expression on the frustrated, protesting "Semi-Meta Emp" in this panel; note that you'll be hearing more from this iteration of our heroine over the next few weeks.

Panel 4: OTOH, gotta say that I don't much care for the phrase "DRUG-SOAKED RAGTIME," which now strikes me as a tad too cutesy and affected. (Cue that one commenter who sporadically but venomously bitches about my dialogue.) Wellp, folks, can't win 'em all when you'll churning out neologisms en masse as I am wont to do.  

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 Crazy Witch, 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.