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Rob Bennett for The New York Times

Gerard Way, lead singer of My Chemical Romance, has created a comic book, “Umbrella Academy.”

By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES

 

A hulking figure flies through the air of a wrestling ring, elbow aimed at a squid creature. A scientist, who is secretly an alien, adopts a number of children born of mysterious provenance. The Eiffel Tower comes to life and attacks Paris.

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An excerpt from 'The Umbrella Academy #2'(pdf)

Written by Gerard Way | Art by Gabriel Bá

(Copyright Gerard Way. Art by Gabriel Bá)

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The hero the Future, of “Umbrella Academy.”

Those scenes are depicted in the first seven pages of “Umbrella Academy,” published by Dark Horse and written by Gerard Way, the lead singer of the…

Singapore - My Chemical Romance is bringing The Black Parade tour to Singapore come this December 11, 2007.

Since they scaled the fame ladder with their 2004 album Three Cheers For Sweet Romance, MCR has taken the world by storm with their gothic and melodramatic musical and lyrical content. Their latest album, The Black Parade, also cemented them as "one of the biggest bands in the world," as touted by Kerrang! magazine.

"The most exciting thing about this tour is that it's the first time you're really seeing the Black Parade as a band. And yet you're never gonna get alienated because you're also gonna get My Chemical Romance," says lead…

A promising second installment in My Chemical Romance singer Gerard Way's stylish series. Plus: threatened superheroes, grieving superheroes, and ravenous zombie superheroes  

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY
Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá
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The most obvious thing to say about this six-part superhero series is that it was penned by Way, lead singer of Queen-esque goth rockers My Chemical Romance. But the more useful fact is that Way ''way'' loves Scottish comics writer Grant Morrison. Certainly Morrison's surreal, berserk 1989 Doom Patrol overhaul is an influence on this tale — about seven mostly superpower-endowed people mysteriously born at the same moment to apparently non-pregnant women, then adopted by Sir Reginald Hargreeves, monocle fan and inventor of the ''Mobile Umbrella Communicator'' (whatever the hell that is). Issue No. 1 — the fabulously, and accurately, titled ''The Day the Eiffel Tower Went Berserk'' —…

My Chemical Romance - a band whose musical style has been called everything from rock to pop to punk - will play a special benefit show at Maxwell's next week, according to Revolt Media and several other music sites. But the show is already sold out!

The band announced the benefit concert to fans who had signed up for e-mail alerts, and tickets went on sale Monday and will be cost $100 each, with a limit of two per customer. The band announced today that tickets are already sold out.

So what's it a benefit concert for? Revolt Media says:

All proceeds from the concert will be donated to charity, although the group has not yet named which organization it is supporting.

The band is opening for Bon Jovi on Oct. 25 and 26th at the Prudential Center in Newark, then…

MCR are playing a special show in New Jersey on October 24th. Tickets were $100, and all proceeds are going to charity. The show is obviously sold out by now, because they are playing the small venue of Maxwell's Hoboken.

It seems that Frank's grandparent's phone number got out and a lot of people have been calling them.

"Frank: One more thing that I would like to say: my grandparents phone number got out and people kept phoning them up in the middle of the night. Don’t call them. They need sleep and my grandma’s really old. They’ll talk to you for hours, but…
Lisette: We’ll put the message up. Leave the private lives private.

So those are you bugging them. Leave the poor old folks alone.

Apparently a fan in Mexico has given Gerard a hamster. Don't know if that was the smartest idea, but here's to hoping it's still alive.