So I was chatting with John Gallagher, artist and writer of the terrific Buzzboy series, about Free Comic Book Day. He'd done it before, and I was looking for some guidance.
One of the things he suggested I do was a variant cover. The theory being that a couple months after FCBD, you release a for-sale version. You can't really sell a book that says FREE on the cover. Made sense to me. So I started working on the cover.
The joke I had was pretty straightforward, Mark making a joke about the Arachnerd movie as he missed the 'Nerd being in the alley. The quandry I had was that I wanted to have the Crusader on the cover, but it didn't make much story sense to have Crusader in public with Abby. I reasoned I could get away with it on the cover.
Then I realized that was my answer to the dual cover question. I'd do the FCBD version with Crusader, and do the Secret Identity version as my saleable version. So, for the first time anywhere, you can see both versions. Click, and see them bigger.
And with that, all the art for both versions of Love and Capes is done! Next step is figuring out issue #5…