Panel 1: I quite like this vertically oriented action shot, though I don't like how the black box on that "NOW" caption doesn't quite reach the upper edge of the page. (The very top of the original artwork wound up cropped off a wee bit after scanning, alas.)

Ehh, dunno if I should've bothered including that (squinty) Emp-at-moment-of-impact close-up in panel 5; I probably could've gone right from panel 4's shot to the completed kick image seen in panel 6 without much effect on the overall storytelling.

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.

-Adam Warren