Though you webcomic readers have never seen all of the pages in question, volumes 2 through 8 of Empowered kicked off with increasingly lengthy and convoluted "Meta Emp" pages recapping the events of previous installments. With vol. 9 I decided to use in-universe "capenews footage" to recap earlier volumes' events, and did so here as well.

Panel 2: "Misguided supervillains" might arguably be a redundant phrasing in this universe but, as we have seen, some supervills are technically less misguided than others.

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, vintage con sketches, work stages on covers, "damsel in distress" commissions, life drawings & much, much more—remains available for Patrons' perusal.

-Adam Warren