Patreon preview: EMPOWERED vol.12's new pages #4-5! (Patreon)

Following up on earlier previews from my first bunch of pages drawn for Empowered vol.12 (here's the first page, then the second and third) , here are the next two!

As I said before,  I'm trying to ease my way into vol. 12 by tackling a cheesecake-intensive "damsel in distress" (or "DiD") sequence, which is really, really easy and non-stressful for me to draw; having  done plenty of DiD commissions in my spare time during lean career  years, I can knock that stuff out quite easily, and often quite speedily  as well. (Which is why a new category, that of heretofore unseen  "damsel"-y material in illustration and comics form, is likely headed to this here Patreon before too long.) 

Without waxing too SPOILER-iffic, the question of why the hell all of these low-level bad guys were armed with K.O. Kloth (and, we'll see see, a few other Emp-relevant items) ties into a much larger and more important issue for our often-struggling heroine.

And now, the page roughs:

Can't believe I hadn't previously thought of the idea of cutting away to panels of a semi-meta Emp complaining about getting captured (as in the "NOOOOO!" panel), as I do love a good Emp rant. Note also that she's pulled her mask down in a rather Spider-Gwen-like fashion, just to try something different. 

Anyhoo, that's all I could dig up in a hurry for a quick post, after a maddeningly difficult and draining day of post-con travel yesterday. Hope you folks like it!