Panel 1: Alas, keeping a perfectly clean ellipse shape intact whilst drawing a complex pattern like this Lotus Node's petals is a bit of a crapshoot, as this slightly wonky image shows. (Oh, well.)

And yes, folks, as mentioned by ol' Fleshmaster earlier in this scene, you are indeed gazing upon a mega-scale Lotus Node portal.

Panel 5: WHAT'S THIS????

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, vintage con sketches, work stages on covers, "damsel in distress" commissions, life drawings & much, much more—remains available for Patrons' perusal.

-Adam Warren