My Chemical Romance

Apparently, Gerard Way is into more than just making music.  He’s now making comic books too!  Spin.com are reporting that “Gerard Way is trying his hand at comic book writing with the new series, Umbrella Academy”.  They also told us a little bit about it. They said: “My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way has taken up a unique side project: writing comic books. The singer signed on with Dark Horse comics to produce a new series called Umbrella Academy, about Sir Reginald Hargreeves, a “world-renowned scientist and inventor, intrepid adventurer, successful entrepreneur, champion cricketer, and closet space-alien,” and his seven super-human kids, according to Dark Horse. In the comics, the kids need to “learn to get past their spectacularly dysfunctional childhoods” to save the world.

The first series of Umbrella Academy will make its debut in early- to mid-2007 with six issues which will then be compiled into a graphic novel.

Interesting concept.  I can’t wait to check it out!

Apparently My Chemical Romance is in the process of thinking of a new album.  Quoted by Gerard Way he says:“It feels like it’s about the right time to be making a new record.”

Way continues to tell Kerrang! (A rock music magazine for those that don’t know) that their last effort, The Black Parade, is “the kind of record that you make but don’t necessarily have a burning desire to perform because its creation was almost the point”, and that “it was so artistically ambitious that it made us want to keep on creating.”.

We’ll expect to hear more about the album as we hopefully get closer to the 2008 release date.

Woot!