With this page’s second image of Emp, another recurrence of the exaggeratedly cartoony “big head, narrow shoulders” visual riff I often used in earlier years. Nowadays, I tend to lean in the other direction, with modern-day, plumper Emp sporting wider shoulders influenced by my recent-ish life-drawing practice.

Panel 3: To forestall potential nitpickers out there, I should clarify here that Ocelotina’s subsequent blithering about duct tape and bondage constitutes near-absolute BS on on her part. To paraphrase the disclaimers used re: DVD or Blu-Ray commentaries, “opinions expressed by fictional characters are not necessarily those of the author.”

-Adam Warren