I am determined to leave that cell shaded look behind and finally overcome by aversion to the cut and grad technique. The colours are a bit all over the place in this one. I was trying a Marte Gracia thing. His colours look so vibrant because there's actually a lot of grey in his work to contrast it. But it's a fine line to walk. Easy to get muddy colours if you do it wrong.
I think I did... better than I normally would when attempting something like that.
I need a lot of practice though.
edit: As people have pointed out in the comments, Jess hasn't said a lot yet. She looks fairly defeated in the last panel. It was wanting her to look more exhausted than resigned. She was tied up pretty quickly. I originally had a few speech balloons showing her huffing from exertion. Maybe I should have kept them...