Is it safe to assume that the reappearing theme of astronauts on the cover of Island is an intentional motif? I know so far each is a different artist, but I wondered how much direction you give them as far as representing the contents of the book? I feel

 I did it on #1 as a nod to the space suit I did on the cover of King city #1–which was a nod to the Paul pope Solo cover. 

Farel and Gael might’ve gone off of the space man I drew on #1 but our conversations about it never got into that. They were more like “wanna do a cover?” “ok” Gael sent some ideas and I told him he was free to make it even weirder and that’s when he did his awesome space man Island cover.