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.

This wound up being a very direct replication of the 2007-ish page from Empowered vol. 1 that began setting up Spooky's origin; I'd link to that old page but, TBH, have neither the time nor the energy to look that webcomic installment up at present. In retrospect, perhaps I should've taken a different approach than telling Carla to essentially copy the same page, but with voiceover narration added.

OTOH, I'm belatedly recalling that this revisited page is setting up a tricky narrative flourish later on in the miniseries, a twist that I suspect few readers actually noticed. Wellp, perhaps you webcomic readers will spot this flourish after all! (In any event, months from now I'll eventually explain what I was trying to do, okay?)

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.