Panel 2: As I've noted before, my favorite gutteral, sputtering gurgle of pain, "GUCHKK," is taken from a scene of violence in Howard Chaykin's great (and personally influential) 80s SF comic American Flagg!

Panel 3: INTENSIVE FLASHBACK PUMMELING CONTINUES

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. However, my vast archive of years of Patreon posts—extensive Empowered previews, vintage con sketches, work stages on covers, "damsel in distress" commissions, life drawings & much, much more—remains available for Patrons' perusal.

-Adam Warren