Patreon preview: Emp & ickiness in another EMPOWERED vol.12 page! (Patreon)

Following up on earlier previews from my first bunch of pages drawn for Empowered vol.12 (here's the first page; then pages #2-3; then pp.4-5), here's another one, this time featuring a semi-Meta Emp expressing concerns about yet another peril of getting chloroformed. 

And now, time for the roughs! First pass on the top tier of panels:

That first Emp figure and left-arm pose felt a bit off (and her face was kinda blah), so I drew a marginally different second pass:

And the next few panels; note that the dialogue is generally scribbled onto the rough as an integral piece of the artwork. 

Tried multiple roughs for the next panel, as you can see:

And, oops, looks like I accidentally threw away the rough for the last panel! (Oh, well.) Ah, but I do have a scan of my hand-scrawled first-draft dialogue:

In fact, there's one more missing work stage, one that I never bother to save; that would be the tracing paper on which I "pre-letter" my dialogue, to make sure it fits in the space available in the final panel. If possible, I'll scan one of those sheets for a future page, even though that's a work stage that few would ever encounter in their own comics work.