Am presently mired in my worst g-d worktime crunch in quite some time (due to my own procrastination, I should clarify), so this week's commentaries will be a tad abbreviated.

Panel 2: Emp is referring to the apparently time- and effort-consuming telepathic tactic of programming someone to carry out one's will, a concept that Mindf**k's kinda-sorta ghost helpfully set up back roughly a hundred pages ago.

Panel 5: I like the approach of putting Neurospear's telepathic "speech" within his silhouette, gotta say.