3D renders ahoy! (I really should ask Ryan what software he was using for this story's backgrounds.)

Note that I'm writing these commentaries quite a bit later in the week than usual (with little available time), so you'll pardon me if I don't blither into great detail throughout this week's quintet of pages.

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.