>There are people on /co/ who aren't hype that Gerard Way is writing for DC's Young Animal imprint just because he was in a band that it was cool to hate a while back
>Not liking his Spiderverse issue
I hated it until I read it, it was fucking good. I'd give him another shot at something.
>>81994150
Read Umbrella Academy anon. It's great and very heavily influenced by Morrison's Doom Patrol run, which is what makes me think he'll be great at actually writing Doom Patrol itself
>>81993758
>because he was in a band
his band was pretty big
still is even if it doesn't exist anymore
WHY THE FUCK IS HE WRITING COMICS?
>>81994360
Because he's actually pretty good at it, suprisingly. People can do more than one thing
>>81994360
>WHY THE FUCK IS HE WRITING COMICS?
Why like what is his reasoning for doing so?
I would imagine it's because he likes fucking comic books. I seem to recall hearing hes been a comic fan for some time and i think back in the early mcr days he used to dress up in some kinda super hero gear on stage or some shit. I dunno.
or else you mean why is he writing comics like 'what do they have letting this guy write comics'? Probably because dark horse took a chance on publishing from him due to him being well known as a rock star and the comic he put out (umbrella academy) was pretty well received. think it won an eisner award the year it came out too.
So i figure based on that DC decided to take him on and give him an imprint.
>>81993758
WHEN I WAS
>>81994360
He only made the band because no one wanted his comic in the first place
>>81994501
A FAGGOT
>>81994518
Source?
>>81994475
no i mean that he has a pretty set career already, he could tour playing nothing but old stuff if he wanted
instead he is gonna do something where success is not only something he is gonna have to work very hard for (with little in return for his efforts), but knowing the interwebs, it will be very easy for him to have the internet turn on him
>>81994558
It's possible he..
A: Doesn't give a shit about the money and just wants to do something hes probably dreamed about And...
B: doesnt give that much of a shit if the internet turns on him. I mean the guys in my chemical romance. He's probably already had a truckton of bitchy shit flung his way and can get pussy (or dick?) at the drop of a hat. The opinions of /co/ are unlikely to matter overmuch to him.
>>81994535
MY UNCLE
>>81993758
He has a very big backstory with animation, comic books, and all that jazz.
>>81993758
I liked my chemical romance. Gerard can really sing
Sp//der was incredible. Wish it was its own series.
>>81994551
That's not exactly what happened. More like he wanted to make comics and get into that field while the band was a sidething that just blew up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrgx-I-LTGc
>>81994688
I think they're alright. Nothing outstanding, but they're ok
People hate them because its cool to hate them, and it's cool to hate them because they are the kind of thing your sister was in to.
The Black Parade was pretty much the poster album for an entire subculture. How many other bands can say that? Nirvana with Nevermind, The Sex Pistols with Never Mind the Bollocks, beyond that, fuck knows. As shitty as the subculture might have been, that's still an impressive feat.
>>81995015
Fair point
>>81993758
I`m not excited because I know it's going to be a failure, just like most of these "We want the teenage manga reading audience" things are. I like Umbrellla Academy, but DC is obviously not doing a good job at marketing or managing this new imprint. People don't know that it is even out, nor what audience it's for exactly. Plus, Gerard is the the "face" of the imprint, he is the biggest name on it and the bridge between Main Publisher, Artists and Imprint managers, something he has no experience with.
>>81994614
TOOK ME INTO THE BASEMENT
>>81995324
Even if it is a failure, if it's good, I'd rather get a few decent stories than none at all.
Plus I like Way's work. Anything that gets him a bigger profile in the industry can't be a bad thing.
>>81995324
>>81994360
I think he interned at Cartoon Network and then 9/11 happened and he quit for the band, something like that
>>81994150
Please, it was mediocre as fuck. The guy can do much, much better.
>>81994360
because the dude fucking loves comics
>>81994558
He probably has a boatload of money already, if you're set for life you might as well work on passion projects
>>81993758
I'm excited mostly because he's shown himself to be a good comic writer and is a student of Morrison.
>>81994360
He got a BFA in comics, and always wanted to work in comics, long before his band got popular. The fact that he got famous for his band was an accident.
TO SEE A MARCHING BAND
>>81994150
it was really bland, conveluted and over hyped shit. looked great but lacked subtance.
>>81995324
>People don't know that it is even out,
But it's not out yet. Not even the solicitations. And the respones to the announcement have been overwhelmingly positive so far, compared to DC's recent track record.
>>81994360
the only reason he got into a band was 9/11 same with Tom King joining the CIA. He had an internship at CN then.
>>81997300
There's only so much you can do with an editorial-mandated tie-in issue of a corporate crossover.
He had some quite interesting ideas regarding to the relationship of the girl and the spider that would deserve some more exploring, a shame the issue was hijacked by Spider-Ham and Slott's spiderverse bullshit.
>>81995324
Way's hyping it up with his fans.
>>81997456
I guess they both profited vastly from experiences in such unusual professions. Most comic book writers didn't lead a very interesting life prior to breaking in and it mostly shows. (Steranko, Kirby, Larry Hama not whistanding)
>>81994150
It was okay for a one off but hard to judge as it was so short and didn't really go anywhere. The art and design is what really elevated it out of forgettable
Also only pleb /m/ references
>>81997502
Steranko was fucking awesome since most of his work he actually experienced.
>>81994934
>That interview
JUST, his voice really sounds weird when he's not singing..... and I guess he's not styling up much anymore. Then again isn't he like 40+ ?
>>81994558
are you projecting right now
it's okay if you are we still love you
>>81995015
Which bands will you say were influenced by them? I hear people compare Panic! at the Disco and Fallout Boy to them.
>>81995324
Eh, let's wait and see. Way is supposed to be the Luke to Morrison's Obi-Wan. Most of Way's fans in his social media circle seems to like the idea of him doing comics and it was pretty easy to shill this to my non-comic book reading friends.
>>81997535
Yeah, I meant that Steranko is among the few who actually done shit.
>>81997658
I hope he'll slay Morrison's Anakin.
His comics are better that his solo "career", if you ask me.
I'd rather he focuses on one and leaves music altogether, unless he's planning MCR reunion.
>>81997658
I'd agree with you there on the bands, but what I meant by the poster album for an entire subculture, is that if you think Emo, you think My Chemcial Romance in much the same way that if you say Grunge you think Nirvana and if you say punk, to the English at least you think Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols
>>81997708
Millar is Scottish. Bare knuckle fighting is in his blood. Way has no fucking chance
>>81997261
This. Morrison was even in his music videos.
Honestly, I was one of those people who never jumped into Umbrella Academy because I didn't like his band, but all I heard was that it was phenomenal. While I began years ago as one of the people OP is describing, what I've heard discussed by other anons about his premise for Doom Patrol sounds great, and even though some of the other premises that look to be published by Young Animal seem different than what I'm accustomed to reading, it all sounds interesting. I'm eager to give each of its books at least a few issues.
>>81998417
Give Umbrella Academy a read, its great, especially considering these kind of things where people famous for other things have a pop at writing comics usually turns to shit.
Which are you the most hype for?
DOOM PATROL – This September, in the spirit of Grant Morrison's legendary run on the series, along with other classic incarnations of the characters, writer Gerard Way and artist Nick Derington will put their unique stamp on the world's strangest heroes taking on the universe's strangest villains.
>SHADE, THE CHANGING GIRL – An alien takes over the body of a 16-year-old bully and must face the challenges of being a stranger in a foreign land, plus the consequences of a life she didn't live. Star Wars’ Moving Target writer Cecil Castellucci and artist Marley Zarcone explore themes of madness, alienation, and the bizarre in this sci-fi thriller, with covers by Becky Cloonan. The new series hits shelves in October.
>CAVE CARSON HAS A CYBERNETIC EYE – Writers Gerard Way and Jon Rivera, along with artist Michael Avon Oeming take readers on a strange adventure with DC Comics’ Silver Age character Cave Carson, his cybernetic eye and his college–age daughter as they travel to dark places deep in the earth and mind. Catch this new series in October.
>MOTHER PANIC – Meet Violet Paige, a celebrity heiress by day and brutal vigilante by night as she takes on the underbelly of Gotham City’s high society. Hitting shelves in November, the series is written by Gerard Way and Jody Houser with art by Tommy Lee Edwards.
>>81994360
>hasn't read umbrella academy
WHEN I WAS
>>81998637
>CAVE CARSON HAS A CYBERNETIC EYE
The patrician choice.
>>81998637
Doom Patrol for sure
>>81998637
>3 titles at one time
seems like a bit much
>>81997502
>Most comic book writers didn't lead a very interesting life prior to breaking in and it mostly shows
Holy shit, this.
No wonder most up and coming writers seem to have no idea about properly delivering characters and messages if all they ever experienced was a suburban upbringing.
>>81995324
It was heavily trending and Way's fanbase was pretty excited. We even had a thread just about how hype it was go see people excited about the doom patrol.
Also it isn't out yet. I have faith in young animals.
>>81999007
Isn't he only a supporting writer for most of them?
>>81998637
Why I'm happy with Doom Patrol returning I already had quite a lot of it in my life.
Cave Carson is something I'm really interested in since I have no real expectations for it or ideas how it might go.
>The Black Parade was 10 years ago
>Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge was 12 years ago
>>81999284
Can't make art without life experiences
>>81999367
Hell i remember seeing Helena on tv circa 05 and my grandfather bitching about how it was disrespectful to the dead or something
>>81999367
Tempus fugit anon.
The videos for Danger Days The Truth Lives of The Fabulous Killjoys are better live-action comic book heroics than 90% of cape cinema.
>>81999367
>ywn get an awkward handy from a 6/10 emo chick while listening to MCR again
>>81994590
Nah, he's straight. Married to the Bassist from Mindless Self Indulgence.
>>82000251
>Those thighs
>>81995324
>the teenage manga reading audience
There's no such thing anymore. They want another Vertigo. Or rather, they want another Sandman, and the name Vertigo can't make that happen again.
>>82000150
This.
So upset they never got to do more videos.
>>82001010
What?
Aren't they "Rebirthing" Vertigo too?
This doesn't really feel like a Vertigo book, most star teen girls and have whacky scenerios, Vertigo books are paranormal trillers, with the occasional hardboiled crime story and that fad of spy stories after Iraq.
And at this point, Vertigo is settling for the new Fables, something they've tried and failed to achieve for years. A new Sandman wouldn't really work in this day and age, too episodical.
>>81998637
>SHADE, THE CHANGING GIRL
I was not previously aware of this, and am now very hype.
>>82001373
>Aren't they "Rebirthing" Vertigo too?
After the total lack of interest in recent announcements, they're just gonna let it fade away with no further comment.
>>82001373
This is Vertigo's rebirth. A new name and the current teen fads.
>>82002570
>>82002083
Welp, I hope I get my Basara inspired Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld at least.
>>81998637
>SHADE, THE CHANGING GIRL
>explore themes of madness, alienation, and the bizarre
Fucking swoop in and steal the market you didn't even know existed before an independent identified it, why don't you?
So how long until /co/ turns on him?
>>82004754
Who cares? Those guys are fags anyway.
>>81994558
He quit his band because it was driving him back to drugs and shit, he has a kid and a wife and din't want them growing up without a dad/husband.
>>81995324
But it's got Way's popularity behind it. Way knows how to market himself.
>>81999284
I think it's the problem with a lot of entertainment today. It's the reason we 're going through a period of reboots, relaunches and retrends.
>>82001373
they tried, a few good series came from it
tom king said his series will keep going for a while but they haven't announced anything new for anyone else
>>81994558
dude is pretty good because of licensing/merch money. whether you like the band or not, he's pretty real about wanting to do art and he's gonna go for it
>>81999316
Came up with the premise and co-writing them.
>>82000150
The album is pretty rad too. I mean I picked it up because of Way's comic connection and Morrison's role in the videos, but I actually ended up really diggin it. (I didn't really care for what I heard from them prior)
>>82002083
There were no new Vertigo announcements since Dini's Batman OGN.....Rich The Leech's rumors about Vertigo's "rebirth" ended up being Young Animal. (Since the editors are the same)
>>82005682
he sounds like a pretty nice chap
>>81993758
I loved MCR. Way as I understand, did the album covers with according theatrics of the music videos but his first love was comics.
>>82009308
Way is actually alright. It's like what OP said. People hated them because its always cool to hate what your sister likes and in 2005 that was MCR.
Nowadays it's Justin Bieber and the Kardashians.
>>82010225
I don't think those people are in the same category.
>>81994498
>because he likes fucking comic books
Don't we all.
>>82010518
Of course they are. Its always popular to hate what preteen/teen girls like. Whether that be music or tv shows or what have you. Go ahead, look back on things that were popular to hate over the past 20 or so years and I guarantee one recurring factor for most is that preteen and/or teenage girls like it.
See:
Miley Cyrus
One Direction
Pitch Perfect
Justin Beiber
My Chemical Romance
The Spice Girls
The Kardashians
Romcoms in general
Twilight
True Blood
Etc.
I'm not trying to play some massive "hurr feminists were right" play, but if girls like it, pop culture tends to deride it.
Here's a game, name something popular amongst teen girls that isn't massively derided.
>>81998637
All of them almost equally honestly, but I am so thirsty for Doom Patrol so that's first.
>>82001373
No, people thought the Way Doom Patrol and stuff would be Vertigo, but it turned out to be Young Animal instead.
Vertigo is gonna be original and creator owned stuff again. Also Lucifer and the occasional Sandman thing..
>>82011063
>but if girls like it, pop culture tends to deride it.
What? If girls like it, it is pop culture.
>>82011063
Uh playing sports? That's all I've got.
>>82012842
People hate on women sports all the fucking time though.
>FUCK YEAH! BASKETBALL/BOXING/MMA/FOOTBALL/TENNIS
>FUCK NO! WOMEN'S BASKETBALL/BOXING/MMA/FOOTBALL/TENNIS
>>82012977
I thought people liked women's MMA and Tennis.
Because that's literally his job, as various other anons have pointed out.
I'm pretty hype, he seems likely to do a good Doom Patrol
>>81994360
He was doing comics before music.
>>82013051
not most peolpe, they just know who ronda rousey and the williams sisters are
It is really weird to see Gerard Way and Max Bemis, who were both in bands that I loved growing (as much hate that MCR and Say Anything get now I still have nostalgia for my middle school and high school music) both writing for comics.
It makes sense though, their lyrics both had some storytelling to them.
>>81994688dubs confirm
He's 37 and has a kid nowwhich is really weird to think about
>>81993758
Don't use "hype" as an adjective.
Danger Days was so fucking hype desu sempai
>>82013271
My negro!
>Gerard Way thread on /co/
>#WhenIWas hashtag on twatter being overtaken by Black Parade lyrics
why is 2006 trying to rise from the dead
Danger Days was honestly so fucking hype
The comic was okay, I remember Dan storytiming it.
>>82013430
The 90s nostalgia is over grampa.
Make way for the 00s nostalgia
>>82013430
always comes full circle
...there used to be Gerard Way threads on /co/?
>>81997405
They've announced they're only going to fuck your mouth with a barbed dildo. The response is positive compared to their previous record of fucking you in the ass with it as well.
Anyone else heard the tracks he released a few days ago?
>tfw don't try is basically "stage 4 fear of trying" but heavier
>>82013430
>The Black Parade was 10 years ago
Holy fuck, it won't be long until all the shitty pop punk and emo I grew up listening will be considered old.
>married =/= straight
he definitely fucked Iero at least once
>>82013629
He probably fucked his brother
I really want this Mike Allred designed shirt.
I got a CHVRCHES poster that Jamie McKelvie drew.
Can't get enough of merch being done by my favorite comics artists.
>>82013430
Pirate Baby Cabana Battle: Street Fight 2006 is now 10 years old.
>>82013629
>>82013664
Who knows what shenanigans he and Grant did
>>81994360
Umbrella Academy
>>82013580
it's unnerving, isn't it?
>>82013684
>>82013566
dubs confirms that I need to fucking get on this
which is your favorite, anon?
>>82013677
something something kids from yesterday
>>81993758
No, we hate him because despite how fucking amazing Umbrella Academy was, he blue balled us fucking hard with Hotel Oblivion.
>>82013677
I wish I could go back to when 4chan was fun. So much has changed. If you told me 10 years ago, when I started coming to 4chan, that it would become this hyper-conservative, full of unironic bigots that throw a fit at the first sign they see something they consider degenerate. You would get laughed off of 2006 if you tried calling things degenerate.
>inb4 4chan was always racist.
No shit, there has always been racist humor on 4chan, but none of to the degree of hatred and vitriol that it is now.
>>82013791
Don't Try because it's more melancholic and I like that
>>82013992
If moot had just shut the place down for 2 months every time it was in the news, we wouldn't be in this mess.
HE SAID
SON WHEN YOU GROW UP
>>82014094
hush, we already did that upthread
>>82014253
WOULD YOU BE
THE SAVIOR OF THE BROKEN
THE BEATEN AND THE DAMMED
>>82013890
>>81993758
I hope he'll work on Hotel Oblivion eventually now that he's getting back into comics.
God, I'm itching for an Umbrella Academy Story Time
>>82012842
My point exactly.
>>82012335
Fine, the internet tends to deride it, I'll admit poor usage of words on my part there
>>82014461
oh shit, yes please. anyone have it at hand?
>>82013890
>>82014461
I'm not sure if that was him or Dark Horse in general, but we were fucking promised Hotel Oblivion in 2010. 6 years later, fucking nothing. I like his comic writing, but I'm not gonna deny, I'm mad.
>>82010225
>Bieber and the Kardashians
Wasn't that the cool thing like 5 years ago? Has shit really not changed at all in the past 5 years?
>>82014701
Ba just finished the art work for issue one of Hotel Oblivion, and Way finished the writing for it a few months back I think. It's almost here, anon, don't worry.
>>82016198
Kardashians are still relevant because of Kanye and "Caitlyn"
Bieber had kinda fallen off but then he made a comeback album
>>82012977
Aside from maybe women's basketball, most female sports tend to be met with indifference more than anything.
>>82011063
The thing about MCR is I think most of their hatred comes from their unrelenting sincerity and theatrical melancholy. It's okay for media to be brooding or sad as long as it has additional accessible elements like masculinity. You see this with a lot of video games nowadays where the protagonist is very "emo" but also a macho man so it makes it okay. If you take the archetype and strip out that masculinity but the character is just as competent then that character is received much poorer.
>>82017410
Sounds like you're talking out your ass.
>tfw you buy the MCR song pack off of Rocksmith and its all good
I'm waiting for the Good Apollo Vol. Graphic Novel.
Can I (still) by the entirety of the Umbrella Academy series by the way?
