We continue serialization of the collected edition of the six-issue 2018 miniseries Empowered and Sistah Spooky’s High School Hell, written and laid out by me and featuring art and lettering by Guest Artist Carla “Speed” McNeil and coloring by Jenn Manley Lee.

Yesterday's commentary mentioned my 1994 Bubblegum Crisis miniseries being long out of print; ah, but after a little thought, I ruefully realized that almost everything other than Empowered in my long career of comics work is, in fact, long out of print as well. All my work on Dirty Pair and Gen13 is gone and unlikely to ever be seen again, due to the original IP licenseholders of both having no interest in reprints; DC's Titans: Scissors, Paper, Stone does live on in print as part of a Justice League: Elseworlds compilation, though!

All my Marvel stuff is outta print too, but at least you can (I think) still buy digital versions of Livewires and Iron Man: Hypervelocity and Galacta, Daughter of Galactus and my various short stories. (Wait, 2019's Venom: The End lives on in print as part of a collected TPB!) 

Behold, the long-term perils of working on IPs you don't own, 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.