Continuing this week's commentary thread: This Ghost Writer story, written well before Empowered vol. 8, had already begun losing relevance to Emp's overall character arc by the time I wrapped up that book's "Badass Emp" storyline. I chose to trot it out as an interlude in vol. 9 because I felt that the "Power Stripped" episode was only gonna get less relevant after this book's "Badass and Extraordinarily Resourceful) Emp" epic finale.

Even so, I wound up cutting a sizeable chunk from this story to accommodate my pagecount needs for vol.9's very lengthy third and conclusive chapter; while I will be restoring the deleted sequence for webcomic serialization, fear not, as the portion I cut has no Ghost Writer content whatsoever. Yay!

More on this matter tomorrow!

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