My brain's been stuck in second gear all day, and I'm not sure why. I think I got enough sleep and all. But it's affected Love and Capes, as for the second time, I've had to redraw a panel to make it funnier. I'm sure you can see why I changed this panel...
...to this one...
Okay, probably not.
What makes it funnier, to me, is the distance. When Mark returns to the store, it's funnier to the big joke (that you can't see, but trust me, it is HI-larious) that he travelled some distance, rather than just outside the store. So I redrew it.
Fortunately, having a library of images I can reuse made it easy. We see Mark and Abby at the El Train tracks, which is a stock background I have. And the crowd are some cut-outs that you may remember from issue #6. Waste not, want not.
I'm now officially on the back nine of the pages. For a book that I was on a tighter deadline on than normal, and one I wasn't mentally prepared to start, it seems to be moving along nicely.