EXCLUSIVE commentary… The Wrong Earth #4 is out 12/5 – the latest installment of one of the year’s best new comics. If you’ve not been following along – and why haven’t you? – AHOY Comics’ series, written by Editor-in-Chief Tom Peyer, is a sharp-eyed, often satirical look at what would happen if a sunny superhero traded universes with his violent counterpart. (Click here to read all about it.) Anyway, we’re back with more behind-the-scenes artistry by series regular Jamal Igle, who explains how he came up with Season One’s first six covers. (Oh, and click here for Igle’s commentary on the book’s character designs.) Dig it. — By JAMAL IGLE My process for covers is pretty much the same with every project. I always begin with a digital sketch, or more, depending on how many ideas I come up with that I like based on the issue. Usually, you don’t know what the tone of a story might be when drawing covers but because each Wrong Earth cover was done after the issue art was produced, it gave me more options for the final ideas. The concept sketches are colored to develop a palette I like and then submitted to Tom. Once a cover idea is approved, we move on to the next stage and it can take anywhere between three days to a week to complete. — ISSUE #1 The key was to establish the concept of the story, two versions of the same hero (Dragonflyman and Dragonfly, respectively) as mirrors of the other. It’s a familiar concept but I felt the best way to distinguish this cover was to have each hero superimposed on their “alternate” Earth. So you have the sunnier Dragonflyman in the darker landscape and vice versa.   The background was digitally manipulated from personal photo reference I took, but the figures were first laid out so that they were in the exact same position. Then I penciled the piece with HB pencil on Series 500 Strathmore Vellum Bristol and inked the figures with both brush and pen. I wanted to make sure that the aesthetic had a certain feel with each figure. Dragonflyman was inked primarily with a sable-haired brush, Dragonfly was inked mostly with Copic multiliner pens. This process continues with all the other covers as well. The color palettes for the...