Panel 3: Emp's pose in this shot was photoreferenced from a Google Image search re: "leglocks" that, amusingly enough, certainly appeared to have been from some kind of "femdom" site, though I didn't bother to go directly to the original source as, well, that's just not a topic of much interest to me. More amusing still, the "fem" doing the leglock "domming" to the neck of the image's hapless, red-faced schmo looked eerily like a brawnier Natalie Dormer from Game of Thrones, down to (or specifically because of) her characteristic smirk. Lordy loo!

Panel 6: Ehh, not sure if this shot works all that that well, but I gotta say that I find it slightly disturbing to see Emp's gums quite so clearly in a "teeth-gritted" close-up. Props for 2017 Me trying something different, though.

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.

-Adam Warren