We continue serialization of the collected version of the three-issue 2017 miniseries Empowered and the Soldier of Love, written and laid out by me and featuring full-color artwork by the Chilean webcomic artist Karla Diaz.

Those edge-lit silhouettes in panel 1 worked out really nicely, gotta say. In retrospect, I wonder if I shouldn't have pressed Karla to use more black inks in the rest of the page (and the story as a whole), given how much, well, "oomph" that areas of strong black add to a full-color comic page; for one thing, that cityscape background (or "BG") in panels 2 and 3 would've been both easier to draw and "punchier" as only white building lights against a solid black BG.

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.