Panel 2: Another appearance of the “END COUNTER-FACTUAL SCENARIO” riff, as seen only six pages ago. As before, the “COUNTER-FACTUAL SCENARIO” term is—and I quote myself—“a fancy-pants way of saying that the previous sequence did not, in fact, actually happen.”

Panel 6: And that’s it for the vol. 7 story “Whoopsies,” folks! Tomorrow, we start up a new chapter with an amusingly provocative title and an even more provocative image of a cosplaying Emp.

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 material that eventually spawned Empowered. 

-Adam Warren