Panel 1: Enjoy the big head and narrow shoulders of vintage “popsicle Emp” figure proportions here, folks, a cartoony flourish that would eventually vanish entirely from my work in Empowered.

Panel 2: Enjoy the cartoony flourish of “notable underbite Emp,” another occasional stylistic riff that likewise characterized my artwork during this era of the series.

Panel 3: Props to Decade-Ago Me for Ocelotina's expression in this reaction shot. Nicely done!

Panel 5: Gotta say that I do like the design of these spiky-suited bad guys, as opposed to many of the other one-off costumes I crank out for Empverse vills.

-Adam Warren