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creator of The Umbrella Academy series. Here you will find all the latest news, photos, media and more. Keeping you up to date as much as possible!
Happy New Year guys! I have big plans for this site in the next few weeks, including a revamp of the entire site, as well as finally getting to work on the media section! For now, we have some pics of Gerard at the Umbrella Academy signing he did at Golden Apple Comics on November 28 - thanks to Luciana for the donation of pictures!
‘We’ve made concepts for three albums now, so I think this one … I want to go into it not thinking about a definite story,’ frontman Gerard Way says.
Well, at least now we know what the new My Chemical Romance album won’t sound like.
A few months back, when we spoke to MCR bassist Mikey Way about the “Batman” story he was writing for DC Comics, he mentioned that he and his bandmates had begun work in earnest on the follow-up to 2006’s Welcome to the Black Parade, but, while they’re all writing songs, he had no idea what the album would end up sounding like.
“So if, say, we wrote some songs that sound like Rick Springfield, a week later they’ve all turned into Children of Bodom songs,” he explained. “I know it’s going to be great — I just don’t know what it’s going to sound like. We’re going to be just as surprised as everyone else, believe me.”
Umbrella Academy is the best comic on the stands right now. It’s true. And you don’t even have to dig deep to behold its magnificence: UA: Dallas #2 has what might be the greatest opening page I’ve seen in eight years. From start to finish, this issue is exquisite. I said it dozens of times about the first Umbrella Academy, but if you’re even on this website reading about comics, you really should be picking up this title.
The overarching story of Dallas seems to be that the members of the Academy all hate each other and are being threatened by a secret evil. If that sounds vaguely similar to the first go-round, that’s because it is. But it’s the details of Gerard Way’s masterpiece that make it so phenomenal you’ll want to read it a second time immediately after you finish it. The Kraken, ever Way’s Batman pastiche, is a more on-the-nose humorous reference this issue; the Rumor going silent has ironically put her in the position of dark horse candidate (no pun intended) for breakout star of the mini; the goofy-headed villains are endless entertainment; and the scene with Number Five that inspired the cover of this issue… let’s just say it’s genius. I’ll admit I have no idea where things are going for the most part, but it doesn’t matter. I’m willing to let Way take me on his wild ride if it’s always this entertaining.
Gabriel Ba is no doubt a significant draw for most comic fans, and his art is predictably fantastic in issue #2. Dave Stewart’s coloring deserves some mention as well - whether it’s washed out, bleak, or colorfully twisted, each scene is colored perfectly. I feel bad sometimes because it’s not often that I really give a colorist credit for his true effect on a comic, but Stewart has alerted me to it here.
So yes. Umbrella Academy. Buy it. If you love Grant Morrison’s off-the-wall tendencies and high concepts, but are currently put off by the fact that Final Crisis and Batman don’t make sense, Umbrella Academy: Dallas is where you belong.
- Source:IGN.com
There’s been a rumor going around that Watchmen had filmed a scene on the 19th at the intersection of Broadway and West 8th Street in Los Angeles.
According to eyewitnesses the scene was quite elaborate and included more than 250 angry extras rushing out of a building and into the street before someone was chased by police dogs and arrested. Some exterior dialog was also shot.
So what’s the story? Well, our sources at Warner Bros. confirmed that, yes, the filming is in fact for Watchmen, but it’s not for re-shoots for the film, or for any DVD extras.
It turns out that the shoot was for the music video of My Chemical Romance’s version of Bob Dylan’s “Desolation Row” — the song being used for the Watchmen film’s closing credits.
That’s not all. It also seems the the music video’s director is none other than Watchmen movie helmer Zack Snyder.
The building that sits at that L.A. intersection is 802 South Broadway, which has been used as a location for several movies including The Prestige, Mulholland Drive and Mambo Kings.
Unless you’ve been holed up in a cave somewhere for the last few weeks, you know that MCR have relaunched mychemicalromance.com into a place where the band can blog and twitter like fiends. They’ve been updating their blogs 4 or 5 times a day, ranging from subjects like Gerard’s reviews of reality shows, to Ray’s video game geek-outs, to Frank’s pug’s Halloween costume, to Mikey’s obsessions with giant squids, and Bob’s scavenger hunt game with Gerard. You can also check out their Twitter postings, which includes such tasty nuggets as ‘Bob if I burn down my house will you take care of my dogs thanks’ and ‘I’m a level 72 Blood Elf/Hunter…’
VINYL IS FUN
As the release date gets closer, you should know that still have time to pre-order the special limited vinyl edition of ‘Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge’ from the My Chemical Romance Store HERE! This is the first time ever that ‘Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge’ is being released on vinyl. Release date is on December 16th, so this is your last chance to reserve your copy in advance. This collectible edition includes:
*’Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge’ on a custom red vinyl record
*New jacket artwork
*MCR gun logo stencil
*Handwritten lyrics
Oh…and….
And lastly, you know that from time to time we like to support our friends and stuff we like, so if you can, check out the score to ‘The Dark Knight,’ which was done by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard. You can check it out here, and get a cool vinyl release for it here.
On top of being a certified rock star, My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way is also living the life that most of us geeks can only dream of. In addition to his hit comic book series, Dark Horse Comics’ ‘The Umbrella Academy’ (the new ’season’ of which ‘Umbrella Academy: Dallas’ we previewed here on Splash Page a few weeks back), Way and the boys of MCR are also contributing a song for the upcoming, ridiculously-anticipated comic flick, ‘Watchmen.’ For Way - a hardcore fan of the original groundbreaking comic series - it couldn’t get any better-or could it?
‘I don’t want to say too much but as far as the placement right now, it’s integral to the ending of the film,’ said Way, revealing that things have changed since our earlier report that MCR’s cover of ‘Desolation Row’ would be confined to playing over the end credits. ‘And that gave me goose bumps, and not because we did the song, but because it works that well I feel. I’ve seen the part that we’re integral to - we’re talking about the very end.’
Way’s enthusiasm for his music’s place in what is easily the film that any comic book fan worth their Mylar are counting down to can only be outdone by his love of the source material. When asked for his personal take on the hotly-debated, controversial ending, Way let his nerd flag fly.
‘Whenever I see a change like that in the film, you simply have to ask yourself, ‘Does this change actually make more sense?’ said Way. ‘It’s not an ego thing. And that’s the one thing that fans need to understand: none of it is to appease the studio. I know [director] Zack [Snyder] has fought really hard to keep this a pure vision. And I think the change that people are mentioning doesn’t make it an impure thing.’
And like any true-blue fanboy, once you get Way going on a comic that he loves, it’s hard to get him to stop.
‘I personally loved the giant squid - and I’ve always loved giant squids - but from what I’m hearing, the changes he’s made reels it into the actual characters, and actually, in some ways, makes more sense.’ Way continued. ‘You’ve always got to remember, the comic’s the comic, and the film’s the film. First of all, I don’t think it’s going to be bad, but if something like that were to happen, the comics still my comic. It does things in the comic that you’ll never do in a film. And that’s just what it is.’
MCR fans - are you happy to hear that ‘Desolation Row’ will now be playing at an ‘integral’ part of ‘Watchmen’? ‘Watchmen’ fans - do you agree with Way’s take on the ending to the film? Let’s hear it in the comments. Source:Splash Page MTV
