Gerard Way has revealed how the storyline shaping My Chemical Romance’s fourth album, ‘Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys’, eventually inspired the Killjoys comic stemming from the record.
In a lengthy new interview on the Cartoonist Kayfabe show, Way explained to hosts Jim Rugg and Ed Piskor that he was initially reluctant to tie in the comic with the MCR record, but the plot changed once he eventually linked the two. “The comic [Killjoys] was really different back then,” said Way. “The Killjoys project is an interesting thing, because it really evolved and grew into this other thing.
It was the thing I was most obsessed with, creatively, so it bled into the music. And then it became a concept album and a comic.