This page rattles through more of the many, many alternate Maidman nicknames I worked up for this one-shot. (I believe I still had a dozen or so left by the end of this story, IIRC.)

Panel 1: Enjoy that very, very rare connecting tail between Thugboy's word balloons, a lettering riff I'm not terribly fond of; this draws alarmingly nigh to the dreaded "ping-pong dialogue chains" that I so despise in American comics writing.

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.