Panel 4: That's a drawn-out "hai" (meaning "uh huh", in this context) in phonetic Japanese hiragana, scanned from one of my untranslated manga.

And this wraps up the Empowered vol. 10 chapter "Admonishing Alliteration," folks. Tomorrow, we move on to the book's penultimate chapter, along with another excerpt from defunct prose experiment I Am Empowered. (In fact, I might try to go "Tuesday/ Wednesday/ Thursday" with the I Am commentary excerpts, but that might be tough to pull off.)

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