Panel 1: I'm vaguely annoyed that it never occurred to be until a brief Demonwolf scene in Empowered vol. 11 that I could work in images of his fiery, horned "true form" along with his dialogue, which definitely would've added a wee bit more interest to these repetitive shots of the featureless alien bondage gear that's caging him.

Panel 3: I think—but am not 100% sure—that the kanji and translation of yet another faux ninjutsu subskill was provided by my friend Tomoko Saito, who worked up most of the wacky jutsu seen throughout the series. (She wasn't credited on the title pages, though, which I'm normally scrupulous about.)

Note also that panel 3 is yet another L-shaped panel extending around the insert panel at lower right, which—as I've often mentioned—is a storytelling riff I borrowed from the crowded page layouts of Frank Thorne during his 70s Marvel run on Red Sonja.

Today’s Patreon update: Probably another dose of Vintage Con Sketches, from the late-90s/early-2000s era when I was cranking out a ton of ’em.

-Adam Warren