Panel 2: Lordy loo, a full-figure height comparison image of sorts! (Not surprisingly, Maidman's high heels should give him a bit of a height advantage over Hardkore.)

Panel 5: IIRC, the distorted "GWADAMMIT" is an exclamation I first used in the unpublished Dirty Pair test project Quick and Dirty a few years before this volume; note that Q&D was a 48-page short(?) story written and drawn in a proto-Empowered pencil-layout form, and was serialized in full on my Patreon a few years back. Speaking of which:

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. So, who knows what today's post might feature? Could be Life Drawing or Distressed Damsels content (both of which are featured at least three times per month), or something in the Work Stages, Vintage Con Sketches or Design departments, or possibly something entirely new. Golly!

-Adam Warren