William Rosenthal ’16 / Emertainment Monthly Writer The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys is perhaps the most popular book you aren’t reading right now. It comes from co-writer, Gerard Way, lead singer of the now broken up My Chemical Romance; this is his second story after Umbrella Academy. Way’s rock star status boosts the title to a mainstream audience. Fans of his music gravitate towards his work, which introduces them to the genre–this is part of the reason Killjoys came into existence. When I say this is the most popular book you aren’t reading, I refer to his fans’ ravenous attraction to seek out new issues of Killjoys. At my own local store, when I went to grab Issue #1, the owner told me that they were sold out before 2 pm. Other stores I visited had the same problem. They could not keep this book on the shelves. Killjoys was originally an idea for Way’s band’s last album. Way uses the comic to expand on the ideas and concepts from the music, which not only allows him to illustrate the Killjoy world to a larger, more concrete degree, but fill his fans in on how he perceived his [...]
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