I managed to squeeze out a pre-Valentine's Day page of Love and Capes last night/early this morning. One of the things they don't tell you in art school is that you'll eventually learn everything that's on late night TV, because you'll be up to watch it. Last night, Conan was interviewing Eva Longorria as I was finishing off coloring this page, and then I scripted and lettered it this morning.
One of the weirdnesses of the quarterly comic schedule is that I have to write the solicitations for my books long before I actually write the book itself. With #4, I didn't really have the plot squared away, so I mentioned the Crusader/Arachnerd bit that I had set up in #3 and knew would be a big part, and wanted call out a storyline for Abby. I figured that Amazonia is a perpetual figure in the books, one that's far more popular than I thought, so I'd say "And Amazonia causes problems for Abby."
Then I hit page sixteen and she hadn't appeared. She definitely appears near the end, but I needed a scene that was heavy with the Abby/Amazonia conflict to set that one up. So that's how I came up with this bit, as Abby is practicing for her audition.
Amazonia is hard to write (much like Mark's Mom in #2) as I never write her actually doing anything against Abby. She says things that can be interpreted as mean, but she never says things that are overtly so. That level of wordplay, though, takes some effort. Hopefully I pulled it off four a fourth issue.
Thom Zahler and the crew of the Argo have fourteen days left to draw seven pages.