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.
@russburlingame as per my editor’s suggestion:)
— Leinil Yu (@leinilyu) March 22, 2014
“@leinilyu: @russburlingame as per my editor’s suggestion:)” Thks for remembering, Leinil! Your designs were an awesome visual foundation.
— Jason Liebig (@Collectingcandy) March 22, 2014
@russburlingame Our mutants-as-magic fantasy book established the dreads and the cape 4 Bishop @joeharris @leinilyu pic.twitter.com/CBxyHqef1L
— Jason Liebig (@Collectingcandy) March 22, 2014
@russburlingame @joeharris @leinilyu Loved the designs Leinil created for us back then. pic.twitter.com/Uc84YXe3yP
— Jason Liebig (@Collectingcandy) March 22, 2014@russburlingame @joeharris @leinilyu suggesting Busta was an attempt to give Bishop a decidedly contemporary look. pic.twitter.com/iP6909Kfl5
— Jason Liebig (@Collectingcandy) March 22, 2014@russburlingame @joeharris @leinilyu Leinil’s designs provided a great starting point for Georges Jeanty pic.twitter.com/H1ynFjml1X
— Jason Liebig (@Collectingcandy) March 22, 2014@russburlingame @joeharris @leinilyu But we must thank Whilce Portacio and Gary Coleman for Bishop’s inspired look. pic.twitter.com/xXrwezDUlK
— Jason Liebig (@Collectingcandy) March 22, 2014
