Unchained p.192
Posted February 4, 2025 at 12:01 am

We continue serialization of 2014's one-shot Empowered: Internal Medicine (as collected in the anthology volume Empowered Unchained), written by me and featuring color art and lettering on the main story by Guest Artist Brandon Graham; I drew this epilogue scene as well.

Panels 1 & 3: The oft-mentioned "profile cheat" strikes again, folks! As I've noted before, this is a trick in which I would show a character in foreground profile to generate a readable expression in reaction to something in the background, even though (ahem) "realistic" analysis of the shot reveals that she's not quite facing said background element. As I've repeated ad nauseum, the "profile cheat" works decently well with a cartoony art style, but arguably falls apart when deployed with a "straighter" artistic approach.

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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