Back in July we posted about a one-shot manga by JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's Hirohiko Araki, which celebrates The Louvre museum in France. Now NBM is publishing the manga, Rohan at the Louvre, with plans for a February 2012 release.
The standalone spin-off volume stars Rohan Kishibe, Araki's "Mary Sue" character who has been featured in other JoJo's short story spin-offs.
From NBM's page:
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ROHAN AT THE LOUVRE Hirohiko Araki
After Glacial Period and The Sky Over the Louvre comes another completely original story with stunning art by a leading mangaka. Rohan, a young mangaka, meets a beautiful mysterious young woman with a dramatic story. Seeing him draw, she tells him of a cursed 200 year old painting using the blackest ink ever known from a 1000 year old tree the painter had brought down without approval from the Emperor who had him executed for doing so. The painting meanwhile had been saved from destruction by a curator of the Louvre. Rohan forgets this story as he becomes famous but ten years later, visiting Paris, he takes the occasion to try and locate the painting. Little does he know how violently powerful the curse of it is until he has the museum unearth it from deep within its archival bowels…
7 ¼ x 10 3/8, 128pp. full color hardcover, $19.99 ISBN 978-1-56163-615-0
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