EMPOWERED & SISTAH SPOOKY #3 thumbnails (all of 'em) (Patreon)

Here are my thumbnails for issue #3 of 2018's Empowered and Sistah Spooky's High School Hell, a six-part miniseries written by me, drawn by Carla Speed McNeil, and colored by Jenn Manley Lee. More info on the project here.   

For each of the first two issues, I previously broke up the "thumbs" into two separate posts, but this time around I figured I'd try binge-posting 'em in one big clump. Later in the month, I might look into posting further work stages on a few of the issue's pages, as the process had some interesting back-and-forth between Carla and me (over dialogue revisions, mostly).

And now, the "singing competition" scene:

Note that the riff in pp.7-8 about Emp's dream of being a badass backup singer (and not a lead singer) is one of my favorite bits in the whole issue, as seen in this inked Carla panel: 

Queen Ashley's deadly magic "bubble of solipsism" attack on pp.11-12 was, of course, a callback to the old "I'm crushing your head" bit from The Kids in the Hall: 

And then we go to the rather harsh "ladies' room" scene that closes out the issue:

Yeahp, Spooky gets broken by a magic mirror while Emp drowns in her own tears in a bathroom stall:

I quite like the image (and pose) of tear-submerged Emp forcing her way out of the bathroom stall in p.21 below:

Anyhoo, this particular feature doesn't seem to be one of this Patreon's more successful categories, but ehh, decided I might as well keep rolling with it.