Panel 2: A partially photoreferenced close-up, here, as I make one of my sporadic attempts at semi-realism to attempt to convey Thugboy as being Asian-American.

Panels 3-4: Blush-pattern Emp mask ahoy!

Panel 4: As we've established in earlier sex scenes, Emp does indeed get quite chatty indeed in the, ah, throes of intimacy.

And that's it for our Thugboy interlude, folks! Tomorrow, we move on to a truly action-packed sequence, which should constitute a nice break from the rather talky scenes we've visited so far in Empowered vol. 8's anthology-format opening story.

Today’s Patreon Update: As this is a Monday, time for our weekly double dose of life drawings new-ish (2018) and older (2017) along with the high-res Photoshop raw scans for both of ‘em, available to all Patron tiers.

-Adam Warren