Panel 2: Note that the wavy word-balloon outline and the varying size of the lettering in the dialogue spoken by "IDENTITY WITHHELD" is supposed to indicate a voice-disguising audio distortion effect.
Panel 3: Emp is of course referring to the appearance by Flamethrowa and Rokk Kandee back in Empowered vol. 9.
Tomorrow on the webcomic, time for another excerpt from defunct prose experiment I Am Empowered!
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. So, who knows what
today's post might feature? Could be Life Drawing or Distressed
Damsels content (both of which are featured at least three times per
month), or something in the Work Stages, Vintage Con Sketches or Design
departments, or possibly something entirely new. Golly!
-Adam Warren