Grown-up Ninjette with her (wet) hair down! Teenage Ninjette with short hair (and leaves)! Lordy loo! (Also, sound the semi-dreaded Lollipop Figure Proportions Alert on that rather big-headed, narrow-shouldered shot of Wet Ninjette.)

Who’s that fella at left? You’ll learn the answer only three days from now, webcomics readers! That wavy pattern on his katana is my interpretation of the hamon—per Wikipedia, “[i]n swordsmithing, hamon is a visual effect created on the blade by the hardening process. The hamon is the outline of the hardened zone which contains the cutting edge.”

Today’s Patreon update: As it’s a Wednesday, time for the $5+ Patron tiers to get their weekly dose of commissioned damsel-in-distress content, along the lines of the same material was eventually reworked into Empowered. (No idea what as to exactly that might be at this time, though; these commentaries are written much further out from posting than are my often last-minute Patreon updates.)

-Adam Warren