Distressed Damsels: Suddenly, shockingly, more EMPOWERED vol.12 pages!

Been quite a while since the last time I posted any pages from the initial story I was drawing for Empowered vol.12, yet over the weekend I was able to knock out three more pages from that DiD-riffic flashback scene. In fact, these pages aren't so much a continuation of the narrative seen earlier, but rather a semi-Metatextual Emp interlude that would be intercut with the rest of the previous pages; here, she's discussing her (former) self-consciousness re: the "mmph"-ing issue. 

Promisingly, my drawing arm didn't suffer much of a flare-up of pain or irritation during this sequence, which is a good sign, though I wouldn't read all that much into it, as these background-free pages weren't all that challenging to draw.  Still, as I mentioned earlier, I really would like to stagger through one more at least partially penciled Empowered volume before I transition over to working digitally.

I should note that I often start out a difficult or hard-to-get-started Empowered volume by jumping straight to a damsel-in-distress episode, A) because I want to get the book's arguably mandatory DiD content squared away before moving on to other stories; and B) because I can knock these scenes out in my sleep.

Don't think I'm going to feature "hair out of the way" Emp all that much in the rest of the book, as holy crap is our heavier, fuller-figured heroine ever, ah, racktastically prominent  without camouflaging hair I usually draw as part of her default look. Huzzah!

By the way, a follow-up on last week's serialization of the playful Emp/Thugboy bedroom cosplay roleplaying scene removed from Empowered vol. 9: I've decided the sequence was too much fun to leave out of "official Empverse continuity," so I'm planning to add it to Empowered vol.12, even if only as a flashback (and even if the art will look notably different from the rest of the book). In that case, don't look now, but with those 11 unpublished vol.9 pages added on to the 16pp I've drawn for this first story, I've already finished 27pp from vol.12. Not too shabby, folks!

In closing, my rough sketches for the preceding pages: