As with most of these one-shot covers, I drew the Emp overlay figure while Guest Artist Takeshi Miyazawa handled the rest of the artwork and his frequent collaborator from back in the Marvel day, Christina Strain, tackled the colors. Hilariously enough, she sent me a work-in-progress Photoshop file of her colors for the cover, which is something I'd never seen before; upon opening the PSD and being barraged by the spectacle of dozens upon dozens upon dozens of layers, I thought my head was gonna explode like Belloq's at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. (Note that Christina sensibly abandoned the comics field in favor of a successful career in screenwriting.)

Tomorrow, we kick off the narrative of Nine Beers with Ninjette with an introductory sequence drawn as well as written by me.

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 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.

-Adam Warren