Artist's commentary
Rohan Returns
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Now, about this cover, it's based on The Uncanny X-Men 361 by Adam Kubert (lol, Q-Bert) who I must confess, I'm not very familiar with his work, but I've always liked that Gambit cover. Though at some point in my brain it looked completely different, because I think I was mixing it with Gambit's attack portrait from Marvel vs Capcom 1. I even considered using it as the base for the Kakyoin cover, but the emeralds made for better replacement to the cards instead of the energy faces in this one.
And huge coincidence that we got the announcement for the Rohan OVA. I'll take it, but I'm still not happy we are still not getting Vento Aureo. If we are gonna be getting a Rohan OVA a year, then Vento Aureo is too far away still. Come on, that part is full of quotable nonsense and some of the best stand battles in all of Jojo, mostly because they are all professional assassins. Anyway, as long as there is more Jojo down the pipeline there's hope. Much better than when I started being a fan and we didn't even Duwang. I had to go to italian websites and try to understand what was going on.
And well, I'm very happy with this, Reimi looks very cute, the guys look cool and Yukako is eye catching. Though I hate Yukako having so much hair, because then I have to draw it. Though there's a factual error in the cover: Rohan would never draw a cool looking Josuke.