High School Hell p.21
Posted September 9, 2025 at 12:01 am

We continue serialization of the collected edition of the six-issue 2018 miniseries Empowered and Sistah Spooky’s High School Hell, written and laid out by me and featuring art and lettering by Guest Artist Carla “Speed” McNeil and coloring by Jenn Manley Lee.

While this scene's biology lab setting closely resembles the "Biology 1" classroom I attended back in early-80s high school, in an odd twist the reference images I sent to Carla were scanned from a similarly shadowy, moody & spooky scene from an early volume of Naoki Urasawa's manga 20th Century Boys. Strange but true, folks!

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 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.

-Adam Warren
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