Leinil Yu’s Busta Rhymes-Inspired Designs for X-Men’s Bishop Revealed

Earlier this week, Bishop: The Last X-Man writer Joe Harris shared on Facebook that it was in that miniseries that editor Jason Liebig suggested to artist Leinil F. Yu that the title character could use a more contemporary look.Liebig suggested to Yu that he use rapper and actor Busta Rhymes as an inspiration, according to Yu and Harris.Since we reported that interesting piece of X-Men history early this morning, though, Liebig joined in the conversation on Twitter, providing some commentary and some looks at Yu’s redesign for Bishop, which served as a template for then-series artist Georges Jeanty. You can check them out embedded below.Thanks to all involved for their conversation and participation! You can see Leinil Yu’s work in New Avengers next month; Joe Harris does Great Pacific, The X-Files: Season Ten and will be doing upcoming work on the Armor Hunters storyline at Valiant. Jason Liebig is at CollectingCandy.com, and you can next see Bishop’s dreadlocks in X-Men: Days of Future Past in May.