Sound the dreaded Overdialoguing Alert on 2009 Me, folks! (Not helping matters much, I admit, is the fact that my hand-lettered font for al this text was way too g-d large.) Then again, most of these apartment scenes are basically just settings to play around with whimsical dialogue; the problem here is that I'm cramming too much text into too few panels. This much dialogue miiiiight have worked with more panels and different artwork (and a smaller lettering font), though that's far from certain.

Panel 4: Behold, the Demonwolf is quoting from Bonnie Tyler's classic slice of 80s cheese "Total Eclipse of the Heart," because of course he is.

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.