Panel 3: So, yeah, this was Ninjette’s big plan, and the reason why she disguised herself as Emp and scampered off to viciously abuse a crew of hapless, pizza-eating mooks. As we’ll see on the next page, Thugboy has considerable doubts about the wisdom of this well-intentioned but very likely flawed scheme.
Kinda random, here, but I thought I’d mention an Empowered webcomic issue that’s been on my mind of late. See, when I work on the PDFs for the books’ pages in Photoshop and upload them to the Hiveworks site, I’m seeing them on a PC’s LCD flatscreen monitor. I usually tweak the art’s contrast levels in Photoshop a bit, as the base files often look a bit pale and washed-out to my eye—though, keep in mind that I’m seeing them on a PC’s screen. Once a new page has posted—always at 12:01 AM, you may have spotted—I check it on one of my other devices, ranging from an old laptop to an even more aging iPad 2 to an up-to-date phone. What I’ve noticed is, the pages’ contrast levels clearly to seem to vary a bit in appearance between the PC screen and the various devices, to the point that the art sometimes looks a bit too dark at times.
This brings up the question, which device should I be optimizing this series’ artwork for? That is, what is the preferred medium of the Empowered webcomic reader, whether desktop, laptop, tablet or phone—or possibly some other device I’m not considering?
-Adam Warren