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KERRANG! #1476

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NEWS: Kerrang! New Issue Alert: MCR - Their 30 Greatest Songs

We miss them, you miss them, so we've brought you My Chemical Romance's 30 greatest-ever songs, voted by Kerrang!, you and the likes of Escape The Fate, Falling In Reverse, Harry Radford, Tonight Alive, Blessthefall, Of Mice & Men, Asking Alexandria and more! Oh yeah, and MCR man Frank Iero himself! What're their favourite My Chem songs and why do they love them? There's only one place to find out...

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VIDEO: The Aquabats Super Show! - "The Anti-Bats!" Directed by Gerard Way and guest starring Mikey Way

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ARTICLE: An Exclusive Conversation With Gerard Way & Friends, Part One

An interview with Gerard Way and Killjoys collaborators Shaun Simon and Becky Cloonan about life, the future and the past. 
 
As issue two of The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys is released, we thought it was time to catch up with author and My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way, as well as writer Shaun Simon and artist Becky Cloonan. This is part of a series of articles published to celebrate the ongoing Killjoys series, with the main interview in this month's issue of Rock Sound, and the second part of this feature landing online on July 31.
 
For the full story, buy the new issue of Rock Sound from one of the following links:
 
PHYSICAL: Pre-order a physical copy of the magazine, including a free CD and six awesome posters, by clicking here
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Where does this release fit into the My Chemical Romance timeline? 
Gerard: “The end of My Chem was the end. This was always intended to come out, maybe not the way it was originally written, but that’s just the case with everything. This is exactly what it was supposed to be. Anything in there that is relevant to the birth or ending of anything is not intentional. It’s the beginning of an awesome comic book career for Shaun, for Becky it’ll be a continuation of an awesome career. For me, it’s gonna be me stepping away from comics. So it’s beginnings and endings in a lot of ways.”

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ARTICLE: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys #2

The first issue of Killjoys was a stylistic mess that featured few cohesive elements of an actual story. This second issue of the series has barely any, and introduces a large cast of characters that writer Gerard Way will not have enough time to completely develop over the next couple issues of this series. This slightly belligerent, yet beautifully drawn mess is what the reader has is left to decipher towards the end of the comic book.

Years ago, the Killjoys fought against the tyrannical megacorporation Better Living Industries, costing them their lives, save for one—the mysterious Girl. Today, the followers of the original Killjoys languish in the Desert while BLI systematically strips citizens of their individuality. As the fight for freedom fades, it’s left to the Girl to take up the mantle and bring down the fearsome BLI or else join the mindless ranks of Bat City!

Way’s first foray into comics, known as The Umbrella Academy featured a great twist on the X-Men as the notion of a family. Anybody that read the series was not expecting a work so nuanced and character driven from a musician. The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoy’s would be something that many would expect from the rockstar. The point is that this effort is so strangely underwhelming when compared to the former series in his career.

This comic loosely revolves around a girl without a name, reaching out to the Killjoys. The group in question are people that died in the music videos from the My Chemical Romance band. The series is so deeply tied into that mythology that it is simply content with setting up an atmosphere. While in comics the surroundings in which the story takes place are no doubt important, there also needs to be a story and character within these pages.

This project has a lot of potential if Gerard Way could just start the story already and focus on the characters that are previously setup. This issue is once again drawn beautifully by the wonderful Becky Cloonan.

2/5 STARS

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ARTICLE: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys #2 Review

In the second issue of The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, writers Shaun Simon and Gerard Way continue to build upon the world they created in last month's debut. But while the sleek, futuristic Battery City and its surrounding wild wasteland feel viscerally real, the characters who inhabit the world aren't nearly as fleshed out.

Simon and Way waste no time on silly things like introductions. Just like last month, we're thrown into the middle of the narrative, and for quite a few pages, it feels like we're missing some critical detail that will make the whole thing click into place. While authorial hand holding is its own sin, it would be nice to given a bit more detail into the "true lives" of these characters. As it stands, we're given little reason to emotionally invest in the story of the Killjoys or the young girl who has found a home with them. Way and Simon sprinkle character details sparingly and seem more concerned with world building.


And what a world it is. It's tempting to overlook the loosely sketched out characters in favor of the rich, dystopian mythology of the Killjoys. Last month, I pointed out the clever references to seminal sci-fi films like Blade Runner, but the more we get to know the world of the Killjoys, the more it begins to skew towards the narrative complexity of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (particularly when it comes to the society-controlling headsets the citizens of Battery City are required to don).

Artist Becky Cloonan is instrumental in making the world of the Killjoys as bleak and believable as it is. There's a cartoonish feel to some of her figures, and the visual playfulness contrasts with the menace laced through each page. It's telling that her androids seem more human than her humans (and a fitting homage to Mr. Dick).

Hopefully, the coming issues will see the people who populate the world of the The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys become as well-developed as their environment. Way, Simon, and Cloonan are on the brink of something brilliant, even if they haven't hit it quite yet.

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