Final Draft (Chapter 1 Cover)

I came up with this after hours of being unable to design a suitable cover emphasizing the action scene near the end of the chapter. Eventually I just thought, "Screw it, I'll just do something to tie it back to the old comic." I laid this out when I just had a rough outline, so I was actually able to make Hi-C an important part of the plot. But more importantly for the sake of establishing a mood, the whole chapter deals with nostalgia, so if you saw the cover and went, "Oh crap! I remember Ecto Cooler; that stuff was awesome!" then it puts you in the correct mindset for the rest of the story. So while I threw it together at random, after doing some work I made it into what I hope you'll find to be a very appropriate cover.

I used a liberal amount of the Blood Splatter brushes made by Dead-Brushes here, but I didn't compose it all very well, so the background doesn't look quite as good as it could have.