Panel 3: Return of the oft-mentioned "profile cheat," folks—though arguably not for long, as the rather cartoony riff begins to vanish from mon oeuvre with the next volume of Empowered.

Next week on the webcomic serialization, stand by for a colorful, moderately surreal conflict between Present-Day Emp and 1.5-Years-Ago Emp. In the meantime, Merry Christmas, webcomic readers!

On a side note, I'm definitely considering serializing more excerpts from the Year-One-ish prose experiment I Am Empowered in these commentaries in the near future, especially as we're approaching a lengthy chapter that I don't feel like commenting about very much. And, TBH, taking an hour to an hour-and-a-half out of my Sunday morning workshift to desperately scrape up something to say about old work is growing ever more problematic as I try to ramp back up to full-time comics production; serializing I Am Empowered here would undoubtedly save me a good deal of worktime, methinks.

Anyhoo, feel free to weigh in on this possibility over the weekend's comments, okay?

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