EMPOWERED DELUXE cover inks

I'm buried alive by other Emp work at the moment, so I'll keep this short: Here are the inks from the cover of Empowered Deluxe Edition vol. 1, collecting the first three volumes in a big, bold, 712-page $59.99 hardcover printed on pretty, pretty paper and including 40-odd pages of bonus material (including the very earliest prototype versions of Empowered, which even most of the folks on the Top-Secret Emp E-mailing List have never seen).

More info here: [link]

Say, does $59.99 sound too rich for your blood? Well, for this week only, you can get ALL of Empowered—that's all six volumes, plus the one-shots The Wench with a Million Sighs and 10 Questions for the Maidman—as a digital-form "megabundle" from Dark Horse Digital for only $34.99! More info here: [link]

Note that something apparently went wrong with Emp's original facial expression from the penciled version, as seen here: [link] I switched from a goofy, toothy smile to a default "pouty-lipped" Emp, for reasons presently unclear to me. I might try to fix this before publication, for whatever that's worth; time's a bit short, though, as I'm simultaneously grinding away at Emp vol. 7 and drawing the cover for Empowered Deluxe Edition vol. 2.

Anyhoo, next up will be the colors.