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I have to ask myself.

Is it because he's the one blogging about helpless cravings for weird pink sugary cereals while his wife's the one who's actually pregnant? Is it because it's evidence of how much his little brother loves him? Or maybe it's this glimpse of a Number Five action figure on his breakfast table?!

I just... IDEK.

♥Gerard♥

::flails::

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I was listening to this the other day on my mp3 player and maybe it was the combination of using earphones and being in bed at the time, but it came across as weirdly personal and intimate. As if I was listening to the boys chatting among themselves. Or as if I had Gerard's voice (and Frank's, and Mikey's, and Ray's) in my head. *g* And listening to it again today, on speakers this time, it's still completely awesome, if no longer quite as personal. *g*

( Thots and flaily squee - behind a cut-tag because it turned rather more epic than expected! )

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Fantastic Umbrella Academy article here - thanks to nokomis305 for the link!

The bit that made me squee the loudest:

The button pack released in conjunction with 'The Apocalypse Suite' contained three familiar designs — The Umbrella Academy, the Rumor, and the Kraken — and one mystery, the Sparrow. Will we find out who or what the Sparrow is in this new series, or is that to come later?

"Yep," Scott answers enigmatically.

Hehe. I've been curious about this for ages, so I'm just happy to know that we are going to find out what it means, whether now or later. And if it turns out that Number Five is The Sparrow, I think I might just die of squee...

The article mentions the (fictitious) single, "I Don't Want to Kill the President" by the (sadly fictitious) punk band "The Prime-8's". Echoes of Leathermouth's "I'm Going to Kill the President of the United States" which Frank Iero claims was written because he thinks it would be really funny if the FBI were to show up on his doorstep... Such fun, this tangled web of connections!

Though someone needs to tell Scott Allie that it was actually Mikey who came up with the name My Chemical Romance.

Oh, and Gerard's reply to being asked if being married to an artist has affected his creative process:

"It's changed it in very numerous and positive ways, but I think that has more to do with the fact that I am married to the most perfect match I could have ever met."

Awww! Could he be more in love with his wife? ♥♥Gerard♥♥

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It all started when nokomis305 brightened my morning with this pic that I'm reposting here of one of Gerard's favourite poses. The outflung arm with the mic, the cocked hip, the little smirky smile on his face all conspire to reduce me to a happy puddle of goo...



Now I have a fairly (cough cough) extensive collection of MCR pictures which are just crying out to be picspammed...

( This picspam WANTS TO SAVE YOUR LIFE )

NB: Image-heavy and really REALLY not dialup-friendly. Trust me.

I've been tormented for weeks by the knowledge that a local record shop had a different version of My Chemical Romance's debut album I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, with videos of two of their earliest songs on it. Irresistable, no? Even though I already own the album on cd, bought from Play back in May during my first flush of enthusiasm for the band. I finally gave in to temptation on Saturday and went shopping. I do this with Dunnett and Tolkien books, but this is the first I've been compelled to acquire multiple copies of a cd!

My new purchase seems to be the original 2002 release - it comes with an Eyeball Records sampler on a separate disc - and is copyright Eyeball Records 2002. The one I got from Play also has Polydor in the copyright info, with 2004 as the year, so I think it must be a re-issue. The cd inserts are identical and apart from the videos, the disc content appears to be the same. The videos, to my disappointment, can only be viewed in a little window that has resisted all my efforts to enlarge it. Sad. But then I discovered one small difference on the disc itself.

The 2004 Polydor disc, the one that I imagine most people have, has the usual copyright and all-rights-reserved spiel in tiny print running round the edge of the disc. The one I bought on Saturday has this:

"Unauthorised duplication is a violation of applicable laws and WILL RESULT IN GERARD COMING TO YOUR HOUSE AND SUCKING YOUR BLOOD."

Um, Gerard? That is NOT a deterrent. AT ALL. ::flails::

( Please, please can I make an appointment for Vampire!Gerard to come to my house? PLEASE, can I? )

I just know that it was his idea to tweak the copyright information on the disc. &hearts

One of these days, I will post about something other than Gerard Way and The Umbrella Academy. Today, however, is not that day. ;)

Neat write-up of Gerard Way and Grant Morrison's ComicCon panel with more detail than I've seen elsewhere. Though I think they're wrong in attributing "It's the X-Men for cool people" to Gerard. I saw that reported as Grant's comment - and it's way too self-congratulatory to be something Gerard would say about his own work.

I finally managed to find a video of part of the panel, here. The clip runs for under two minutes, and Grant and Gerard still manage to fanboy each other adorably. And Grant Morrison has the sort of Scottish accent that makes me wibble. ♥

And finally, there were apparently prototype UA action figures on display at ComicCon.

( If they're ever made commercially available, and I hope they will be, I really REALLY want one of these... )

Article on Gerard's ComicCon panel with Grant Morrison in which he reveals that "he dresses like he lives in The Umbrella Academy universe when working on the book". Oh Gee! Could he be any more geekily perfect? He's having such fun with all this.

I'd already noticed the Umbrella Academy-style sweater that he was wearing for the signings he did on the release of the first issue last year. The comic he's clutching so proudly almost obscures it, but here it is:

( an argyll-paterned sweater! )

If I were ever to meet him at a signing or something, I'd give him a pair of black and white argyll socks like the ones that Number Five wears.

And one more pic from this last weekend because I love the way he looks here:

( UA-verse Gerard Way )
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I'm filled with RIDICULOUS levels of GLEE over the news that The Umbrella Academy won an Eisner Award for best limited series. That's pretty damn impressive! Go Gerard Way, comic book author!! I mean, I'm sitting here grinning like an idiot, so I can't even IMAGINE the glee-faces that Gerard is making... I am SOOOO happy for him! ::clasps hands to fangirly heart::

Today's crop of UA links, collected from all over the place and posted here for my own future reference as well as for fajrdrako's delectation:

- Full list of Eisner winners. Including James Jean for best cover artist and Dave Stewart for best colouring - go Umbrella Academy team!

- interview snippet with Gerard in a feature on Dark Horse comics - he looks both relieved and THRILLED when the interviewer calls TUA "amazingly assured" and "a really cool debut". Rolled up sleeves! Waistcoat and tie - obviously part of his comic book author costume! Though he looks strangely unlike himself - unshaven and underslept, perhaps, but I think something's off in the lighting or his make-up, because he looks fine in the next clip linked below, which was obviously filmed on the same day.

- another video of Gerard talking about the UA as "a postmodern superhero story". Looking hot this time, with bonus flaily hands of glee. ::dies some more::

- Series 2 is called The Scarecrow Blues and apparently reveals a lot more of Number Five's story - hurrah! I have a decided fondness for Number Five. I really like his slightly weird but actually quite healthy detachedness from the others due to avoiding the last twenty years of Hargreeves sibling fuck-ups, and then there's the fact that he's an adult, not to say an old man, who is trapped in the body of a ten-year-old. The latter is sometimes hilariously evident, like when he orders coffees from the rather hard-boiled waitress at a seedy diner in the middle of the night with a nonchalant "Two cups, black, my dear." And he wears shorts, school-uniform shorts, with argyll socks. Because he's ten. ::flails::

- awesome pics by limmenel from Gerard's ComicCon panel with Grant Morrison here. Looking good, Gee!

- And lastly, a link to a pic posted by nokomis305 of "rumpled absent-minded Professor" Gerard Way clutching his Eisner. GLEE FACES ALL ROUND!!
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Ok, so I promised fajrdrako Gerard Way picspam but have just spent two hours collecting the following links, so I'm going to post them instead. The picspam will be forthcoming, eventually - and hey, anticipation is half the fun! Isn't it? ::grins evilly::

Teenage Vanya and the Kraken, and their Punk Band shenanigans! It's a NEW Umbrella Academy story: Anywhere But Here. ETA: Slightly older story, Kraken-centric this time: Safe and Sound.

Interesting article about TUA with lots of quotes from Gerard and from Gabriel Ba.

Gabriel Ba sees MCR in concert in Brazil and draws them!

LONG interview with Gerard in which he says, "I don’t think it’s going to be for a long time, but you will definitely see what happened to the Horror." Eeeee! The other thing I want is backstory on Number Five i.e. what was he referring to when Dr Pogo asked about the three individuals who accosted them in the diner?

Videos of Gerard's NY and Boston signings on the release of the first UA issue. UA-style Argyll sweater! The turtle! The dog poop from the cemetery!

More interviews:

Dark Horse Scott Allie interview

TALKING UMBRELLA ACADEMY WITH GERARD WAY.

CATCHING UP WITH GERARD WAY & THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY

And how awesome is this? I want one.
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