As I've noted before, I'm no big fan of grid-based comics-page layouts, but they do have their uses; here, as I've often done, a grid comes in handy for rattling off a series of discrete, narratively unconnected moments of action.

Panel 3: Alas, the advent of the modern era's memeslang "coomer" (and the related like) have not been kind to my beloved sound FX "BKOOM" and "WHKOOM". Well, too g-d bad, folks.

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