We continue serialization of Empowered vol. 12, which proved to be the final volume of the series in this specific graphic-novel format, though I was unaware of that unfortunate reality when I started work on the book.

Panel 1: The idea, here, was that Emp's hospital room was displaying comforting, naturalistic holographic imagery to soothe patients, akin to the "Ristorante Holographique" (IIRC) from issue 1 of 1993's Dirty Pair: SimHell, in which Yuri is out to dinner with a soon-disappointed swain in a restaurant whose "holosetting" is constantly shifting. (Also rather akin to that one deleted scene from early on in the Extended Cut of Aliens, though I wouldn't see that until well after I worked on SimHell.)

Panel 4: Whatever could Emp be reacting to?

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. However, my vast archive of years of Patreon posts—extensive Empowered previews, work-in-progress updates on developmental projects such as fantasy comics Crazy Witch, The Chaste and the Chained and The Last Party, vintage con sketches, work stages on covers, "damsel in distress" commissions, life drawings & much, much more—remains available for Patrons' perusal.