Panel 3: For the record, those flying blood droplets aren't hitting Spooky's face, but are rather in the extreme foreground some distance from her. (In other words, I'm stating this to fend off nitpickers' complaints about her unbloodied face on the next page.)
Panel 4: While overall I quite like how this "silent" page of bloody aftermath worked out, I remain puzzled by my choice to show Jacob's severed hand palm-down rather than palm-up, which I now feel would've worked out much better visually. (Oh, well.)
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