Volume 9 Page 221
Posted September 21, 2022 at 12:01 am

Panel 2: Yes, folks, you need to cast your minds back to the opening page of this volume's middle story, "Power Stripped," to recall the previous appearance of this hiveminded mech a mere 145 pages ago. Needless to say, this recollection would've been a whole lot easier to accomplish if you were reading this entire volume in a single sitting (or a least several sittings) as originally intended.

Note that I sensibly elected to copy/paste that excerpt from page 75 in this panel, rather than redrawing the image by hand. Arguably, the delicate-looking artwork of the shrunken-down image works better in this context than a coarser, hand-drawn version of the same scene.

Note also the fact that the Cyclopean micromecha has been, well, "bugging" Emp for the last two weeks is one hell of a dangling plot thread in any number of troublesome aspects. Yikes! OTOH, the bandwidth of the bug's quantum entanglement link back to the rest of the hivemind remains unclarified, so the possibility does exist that the micromecha was unable to broadcast anything more than just its location during the previous few weeks. (Which, alas, does mean that Cyclopean still knows where Emp lives... Hrmmm.)

Today’s Patreon update: Originally done as a means of scratching 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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