Behold the terrible majesty of an almost entirely inked page, apart from from some penciling added for gray tones here and there. For good or ill, we've come very far from the early, all-pencil scrawling of the first few volumes of Empowered.

Panels 1 & 2: Behold also the terrible majesty of what I've dubbed "blobby window lights" in those background buildings across the cityscape. Gotta say, I'm a bit annoyed that these out-of-focus shapes look much better (to my eye, at least) than the crisply outlined window lights that I've been rendering throughout my entire g-d career, dating all the way back to the first Dirty Pair miniseries in 1988. (I should note that said crisply outlined visual riffs were derived from Otomo Katsuhiro's work on Akira, along with a veritable passel of other borrowed techniques.)

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, such as updates on fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chained. Golly!

-Adam Warren