Lightning over the Steampunk Workshop

An explosive comic-book style scene in a sprawling steampunk workshop. Lightning crackles through brass pipes and steam vents, electric arcs snapping from a towering Tesla coil. Bold ink lines, high-contrast shadows, and Ben-Day halftone dots define the image in dynamic panel composition. A weathered inventor wearing soot-streaked goggles and a leather apron stands at a cluttered workbench strewn with gears, copper cables, riveted metal, and steam gauges. In the background, pistons hiss, rotors churn, and riveted girders glow as bolts of blue-white lightning illuminate smoky air. Color palette of electric blues, warm golds and bronzes, and deep indigo shadows. Composition features a low-angle diagonal perspective, speed lines and impact bursts around the lightning to convey raw energy, with panel framing that hints at a splash page and a dramatic reveal. Inspiration: classic 1940s pulp comics meets modern superhero inks in a steampunk aesthetic.