Volume 8 Page 189
Posted October 11, 2021 at 12:01 am

I cranked out this entire climactic story from Empowered vol. 8 in a feverish three months (or possibly a bit less) during what was easily one of the most intense creative experiences in all of my 33-odd years in comics. After getting warmed up writing and drawing  the book's first-half string of Hell-related anecdotes and short scenes, I hit Emp's and Spooky's ill-fated odyssey running, and plowed through the most pages I've ever produced at one time—I wrote and drew 44 pages in August 2013, which is more production than I'd ever managed before, or ever will again.

Note that I did say "wrote and drew," as I was laying out, scripting & drawing one page of this story at a time, very much in the manner of—irony of ironies!—a webcomic, as opposed to the process I'd always used on my other comics work—that is, laying out and dialoguing an entire issue, then sitting down and penciling the issue, followed by the discrete stages of inking, screen-toning or color guides, and so on.

(Continued in tomorrow's commentary, if the webcomic software allows!)

Today’s Patreon update: In an attempt to scratch out more worktime to complete the long-gestating Empowered vol. 12, I've switched over to a Monday/ Wednesday/ Friday Patreon posting schedule that won't feature the fixed content format I previously used. So, who knows what today's post might feature? Could be Life Drawing or Distressed Damsels content (both of which are featured at least three times per month), or something in the Work Stages, Vintage Con Sketches or Design departments, or possibly something entirely new. Golly!

-Adam Warren

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