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doom patrol
You would think Doom Patrol by Gerard Way and Nick Derington was a Marvel super-mega-crossover event with the amount of times it's been delayed. Over the past year, Doom Patrol, the flagship book of DC's Young Animal imprint, has had a teeny, tiny little problem The book can't seem to come out on time It's been[...]
young animal
Back at San Diego Comic-Con, Young Animal curator Gerard Way announced that Young Animal's titles would be crossing over with the superheroes of the main DC Universe In January 2018, all four of the ongoing series will be part of a four-part crossover event. Marking the conclusion of the first phase of the imprint and send[...]
Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion Finally Coming From Gerard Way And Gabriel Bá In 2018
We'll look at all of those in a minute, but this might be worth a highlight: despite the success of Young Animal at DC Comics, Gerard Way will finally deliver the long-promised Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion series with co-creator Gabriel Bá for Dark Horse. First announced in 2009, the comic's third volume is now promised for 2018 — which could[...]
Gerard Way's Young Animal To Crossover With DCU
Announced today at the DC press breakfast, Gerard Way's Young Animal imprint will crossover with the proper DCU. In addition to a subtle revelation that Young Animal is officially under the Vertigo banner following DC's recent restructuring, we also learned some exciting news about a new crossover between Young Animal and the DC Universe. Shade The Changing[...]
Gerard Way And Gabriel Ba's Umbrella Academy Lands 10 Episode Season At Netflix
Following up on rumors last week that Umbrella Academy had found a home at Netflix, the online streaming giant has officially confirmed the live-action adaptation via a press release. Originally launched in 2007 at Dark Horse, the Eisner-Award winning comic by My Chemical Romance frontman and DC Young Animal mogul Gerard Way and artist Gabriel Ba[...]
Umbrella Academy
The long-brewing adaptation of My Chemical Romance frontman and comic writer Gerard Way's The Umbrella Academy, is being rumoured to have finally found a home with Netflix. The 2007 debuting critically lauded series followed a family of eccentric and dysfunctional superheroes, brought together as babies by their father-figure and mentor Sir Reginald Hargreeves, until nine years[...]
Gerard Way Announces Doom Patrol #7 Will Return In July – At Wondercon
Bleeding Cool first reported that the Young Animal title by Gerard Way, Nick Berington and Michael Allred, Doom Patrol, had seen its orders for issues #7, #8 and #9 cancelled by DC Comics over extreme lateness.  We also pointed out the soonest they could return, due to solicitation schedules, was in July. Well, that's exactly what's happened. Bleeding Cool reporter[...]
Gerard Way's Doom Patrol Cancelled After #6… For Now
April 29th sees the release of Doom Patrol #6 by Gerard Way and Mike Allred – even though it should have been out in February. There are serious delays with the comic, by Gerard Way and usual lead artist Nick Derington As a result, DC Comics has cancelled issue 7, 8 and 9 of Young Animal's[...]
Ch-Ch-Changes: Do More Delays Spell You Know What For #YoungAnimal's Doom Patrol?
Back in November, when Bleeding Cool learned that Doom Patrol, the flagship book of Gerard Way's Young Animal label, would see its fourth issue pushed back two weeks, to December 28th, we reasoned, at least it has expanded to 40 pages with no price increase When Bleeding Cool noticed that DC's March solicitations contained no[...]
Gerard Way To Launch Young Animal Comics At NCComicon In November
Last year at the North Carolina Comicon, at Durham Convention Center, Bleeding Cool reported that Gerard Way talked about bringing back his Doom Patrol pitch. And so it came to pass. This year, he returns to NCcomicon for all three days, running from November 11th to 13th And will be using it to launch his Young Animal line,[...]
Another Glimpse At Gerard Way's Young Animal Comics From DC….
Gerard Way has been giving more sneak peeks into the upcoming Young Animal mature readers line from DC Comics. What is emerging from each book is the difference in tone- they are all doing their own thing, and it is wonderful I grow more excited as I see them come together, watching the collective vision of[...]
Gerard Way Talks Young Animal And How The Band Thing Just Happened
Most folks know Gerard Way as the front man for My Chemical Romance, but you ask him he has always been a comic creator and the whole music thing happened by accident In the interview below he talked with Tiffany Smith of DC's All-Access about his interning at DC and how he ended up with[...]
Vertigo Comics To Get Its Own Rebirth At ECCC, For July?
Like they used to do. And the Becky Cloonan/Gerard Way Doom Patrol book will be a flagship title for the imprint, leading up until the Sandman Spin Off books, based on ideas by Neil Gaiman, are launched before Christmas. DC Comics did not respond to enquiries made yesterday. I am told that DC's Vertigo is undergoing a similar[...]
Gerard Way And Becky Cloonan's Doom Patrol Being Revived?
And that people couldn't repitch pre-Rebirth pitches anymore? Well, it may be different if you are a rock star. I understand that the considerable swell of interest in a Gerard Way/Becky Cloonan Doom Patrol at DC Comics has solidified into something that may now actually be happening. Whether they are just using Becky's designs or more, I don't[...]
DC Comics Had Approved A Gerard Way/Becky Cloonan Doom Patrol Comic (UPDATE)
The panel featuring their headliners Charlie Adlard and Gerard Way, moderated by Tommy Lee Edwards opened up for Q & A, and I asked my burning question to Gerard I asked, "You say you loved X-Men, and interned for DC Comic, and they have a property that could use some help that's very similar to the[...]
Gerard Way Comes To North Carolina In November
Gerard Way is joining the likes of Charlie Adlard, Adam Hughes, Neal Adams Stacy Lee, Cliff Chiang, JP Leon and Bernard Chang as the big comic book names of North Carolina Comic Con in November. So as well as all the comic book aficionados, expect a rather large contingent of My Chemical Romance "killjoys" to join[...]
Bleeding Cool's 31 Best Interviews Of 2014
I'd like to thank those who engaged in interviews this year on Bleeding Cool again for sharing their perspective and wisdom with us, and with our readers. Here are some of the highlights from the interviews of 2014 from myself, Rich Johnston, Dan Wickline, Adi Tantimedh, Alex Wilson, Nikolai Fomich, and Jeremy Konrad: With Fred Van Lente:[...]
Prints Charming: Spider-Gwen Gets A Third Printing, Gerard Way Gets A Second
And comics news reporting sites become implicit in that market distortion every time we run them as a story. Latour and Rodriguez' first appearance of Spider-Gwen in Edge Of Spider-Verse #2 gets a third printing, as the standard cover for first printing sells for up to $37 on eBay, unslabbed. While Gerard Way's Edge Of Spider-Verse #5[...]
My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way Writes Peter Porker, Spider-Ham
Edge Of Spider-Verse #5, written by My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way and published today Expect lines. And featuring the ultra-cool SP//dr alternate universe character of a young woman, a spider and a massive Spider-based super suit that combines a number of Japanese comic book genres together into one totally bad ass character. It's awesome. But what's also awesome[...]
Gerard Way Is Still Writing Spider-Man, Despite Reports
It caused a little commotion, which is how I came to hear about it. EDGE OF SPIDER-VERSE #5 (OF 5) & VAR ($3.99, FOC 09/22/14) will be written by a TBD writer, not Gerard Way which was previously solicited. Oh dear. Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance, was previously announced to be writing a Spider-Man book, one of[...]