User blog comment:Monkey d strawhat/next cover story/@comment-4889755-20120302002825/@comment-1595565-20120302011439

Thing is, we actually kept tabs on Perona throughout the story. Foxy disappeared after the Davy Back Fight arc and no one has given a flying funk about him since. I think that Perona was given a coverstory just to have an excuse to go back to Thriller Bark or for Kumashi to reappear.