Create one square full-color webcomic panel for an educational comic about an axolotl, for panel: Wild Cousins. The attached image shows Axo the axolotl and serves as inspiration for the character and art style rather than something to copy exactly: keep Axo clearly recognizable as the same friendly pink axolotl with feathery deep-pink external gills, big glossy dark expressive eyes, a wide cheerful smile, tiny rounded limbs, and a finned tail, drawn with thick dark outlines and flat vibrant colors with soft simple shading, while posing and framing the character naturally for each scene. The comic is factually accurate, wonder-filled, cute, and simple enough for kids. Each panel is a single scene with a clean composition and one clear focal action. Present the panel artwork itself directly as the image: a flat, straight-on digital illustration filling the canvas, with the canvas edges themselves forming the outer limits of the panel, and no drawn border, frame, outline, or margin around the artwork. Create a true edge-to-edge composition: large scene elements such as water, plants, and sky may naturally continue beyond and be cropped by the four canvas edges, while Axo and the main action remain clearly visible within the canvas, leaving the canvas edges visually open rather than enclosed. Keep all potentially writable surfaces plain and unmarked; communicate everything entirely through characters, objects, poses, and actions. The finished artwork contains only pictorial linework and color. Compose each scene with a patch of calm, open, uncluttered background across the upper part of the panel. For the panel "Wild Cousins": pink Axo waves beside a dark brown wild axolotl drawn in the same friendly style, side by side. For "Home in Danger": Axo looks worried in murkier water with a large shadowy invasive fish looming in the background and a few pieces of drifting litter, gentle and not scary. For "Science Heroes": a friendly scientist in a lab coat looks through a microscope beside a cozy tank where Axo waves happily. For "Protect Our Wetlands": Axo smiles hopefully in a clean, bright, sunny wetland full of plants, with a few small hearts rising like bubbles.
