DISTRESSED DAMSELS: "THE TROUBLE WITH EMERALD," part 3!

[Link to our previous installment in this series.]

Note that I changed the title of this goofy little pseudo-story effort to The Trouble with Emerald from the previous We Have an Emerald Problem, as I found the former a tad punchier.

So!

I've been trying to think of something to do with the various DiD sketch sets I have kicking around that feature backup superheroine Emerald, who appears as basically a dark-haired, maskless variation on Emp's tattered-suit design (and modern-era  physique) from Empowered. Technically, the character predates Emp as a DiD commission subject by quite some time, but that's another story I'll address at a later date (well, maybe).

Recently, my ever-mercurial muse abruptly informed me of a wacky yet strangely compelling narrative concept into which I could twist and repurpose the Emerald sketch sets. I can tell you, dear readers, that this approach to a suspiciously distress-prone superdamsel will wind up treading rather different teritory than Empowered, though conveyed via similarly heavy (if not even heavier) doses of cheesecake.

Much like some of the earlier Rose & Lily sets, this non-comic story format will feature mostly random DiD sketches slathered on with plenty of new text conveying the narrative proper, such as it is.

Previous installments established, via the narration of conspiracy-theorizing supervillain Deathmasque, that distress-prone  heroine Emerald was by far the favorite "superhottie" of the so-called "dark-cape community"—to a possibly anomalous if not inexplicable degree.

I'm very short on time right now, so let's get straight into the action, as these new pages feature Deathmasque narrating an incident based on several famous Spider-Woman issues from the 70s, which have been the basis of many such damsel-y commissions on my part:

Note that the bit re: the Villainbros of Taste Network's camdrones explains how these images are being captured—ha ha!—while hinting a wee bit at the single element of worldbuilding that makes the Emerald capeverse disastrously unique. (More on this matter later, needless to say.)

Note also that I included the original sketches without text in the image gallery above, in case you prefer your damsel-y cheesecake sans narrative blithering.)

UPDATE: Uh, that would be "DEPREDATION," not g-d "DEPRADATION", for f**k's sake. The only excuse I can think up for this shocking spelling error is that, well, I've probably never written out said vocabulary word before. Here's the corrected version, as seen in a cropped version for Twitter (er, "X"):

Note that these two pages were sketched with new 8B(!) 2mm leads recently discovered on Amazon, which pencil even more silky-smooth and with less effort than the 5B leads I was using on earlier pages. Gotta say that this 8B experience was truly a pleasure compared to the grinding inkwork of the test pages from The Chaste and the Chained I was working on at the same time and to the digital frustration of failed CSP brush tests I was simultaneously carrying out on $20 tier art requests; that's why these new Emerald pages are so anomalously tight, as they provided a welcome respite from those other, far more maddening artistic efforts.

Anyhoo, enjoy also the various roughs used to develop the DiD poses on these pages. Even though The Trouble with Emerald will never be a published project, I figure working out these poses is never a waste of time, as they could be reused in potential future comics such as The Chaste and the Chained or Empowered.

NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: No idea, TBH, but something should be coming up in the next M/W/F slot. Let's find out together, shall we?