Volume 7 Pages 2-3
Posted April 8, 2020 at 12:01 am

This might be an extremely rare example of a title-spread illo drawn after most of the volume’s story pages were already complete, judging by the spot-on detail on the items around Emp. See, much of the time my editor wanted these volume-opening spreads—including the front and back cover—done waaaaaay ahead of time, well before much of the rest of the book had been written and drawn, to the point that I’d often have to guess what visual elements I should include in ’em. So, feel free to examine the miscellanea surrounding our heroine, which provide plenty of clues about the events about to unfold in this action-packed and oversize volume—note that this book is a bold and brawny 224 pages long, as opposed to the usual 208-page installment. (And I used every g-d page available, lemme tell you; there are no bonus pages at the end of this volume, or even a “creator’s bio” page.)

One thing I do recall from this piece is that, when I posed it on deviantART a decade ago, some jackass commenter chuckled along the lines of, “Oh, you comic artists and your chronic avoidance of drawing feet.” That pissed me off considerably, as every other g-d opening spread I ever drew for this g-d series showed Emp’s g-d feet. One g-d exception, and somebody’s just gotta bitch about it. (At some point, I need to unleash my long-fermenting, seething-intensive jeremiad about why you often don’t see feet drawn on a comic cover.)

Note also the "CG assistance" credit! Yeahp, I used SketchUp 3D models to help depict recurring backgrounds for two different settings in Empowered vol.7.

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! This time around, we’re continuing serialization of an extremely goofy, proto-Empowered-format comic written and drawn circa 2002, telling the cheesecake-intensive tale of the wee shinobi of the “Pint-Size(d) Ninja Platoon” struggling to distress a very familiar damsel.

-Adam Warren

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