Volume 7 Page 26
Posted April 30, 2020 at 12:01 am

Panel 1: Aaaand we close out Ninjette’s blindfolded—okay, blindgooped—perspective on the climactic events of Empowered vol. 6.

Panel 2: I have incredible difficulty lettering “straight text” like the fonts in the “36 MINUTES LATER” caption, to the point that I’ve considered having Dark Horse Production just paste in some typeset font in place of my uneven and wonky hand lettering. The problem is that my attempts at fonts like these fall just short enough of clean, perfect, computer- or machine-generated typesetting to annoy me, with the small deviations becoming glaringly noticeable on close inspection.

More recently, I’ve switched to looser, funkier lettering akin to how I do sound FX, which seems to work out a bit better. Also, I often have DH invert the lettering to white text in a black caption box, which for some reason dramatically increases the perceived quality of my lettering—well, to my eyes, at least.

Today’s Patreon update: On Thursdays we’re continuing serialization of the unpublished Dirty Pair story Quick & Dirty, a 2003 48-pager written and drawn in a proto-Empowered pencil-page format.

-Adam Warren

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