We continue serialization of Empowered vol. 12, which proved to be the final volume of the series in this specific graphic-novel format, though I was unaware of that unfortunate reality when I started work on the book.

And lo, thus do we head into the home stretch of "Empowered and the Never-Ending Reboot," a story originally worked up in 2018 as an Empowered miniseries to be drawn by a Guest Artist, but awkwardly bolted onto the remaining fragments from my original vision for vol.12 in a flailing effort to bring the series to a pause, if not a close. In fact, I probably should've just cut my losses, ditched the existing 50-odd pages of "damsel-in-distress" content from "This Calloused Damsel," and finished out the volume differently. ("Oh, well," as I will often say throughout this final stretch.)  

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 Crazy Witch, 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.