User blog comment:Uchiha-boss/Next Cover Mini-Series?/@comment-1595565-20140123174131

More people have died in OP than Ace and Whitebeard, you hopeless fanboy. The point of the coverstory is that it takes place parallel to the current story, so Bellamy's out. And Aokiji and the kids either have no significant story worth writing about or is just not interesting enough. We're looking at at least nine total weeks of animals, plus one or two color spreads thrown in.