Soundcheck: The 13 Best Music Releases Of The Week

"I consider myself one of the luckiest people alive," Gerard Way said to me over the phone."I get to wake up and generally—I have guidelines and stuff—but, I get to create whatever I want." And while that used to mean mainly music for the former My Chemical Romance frontman, lately Way has found plenty of success outside of the emo musical canon, with success in comics and now, television, in the form of Netflix's The Umbrella Academy, based on his comic of the same name.

But Way doesn't seem annoyed by the way his music career finds its way into conversations about his newfound success in comic books, and is rather proud."It's a wonderful feeling to have this circular body of work that has all these different facets to it," Way said."The fact that all the stuff I've worked on has had a cultural impact is really an amazing thing.

"Even back in Umbrella Academy, what I wanted to do is—because comics have helped me so much—to expose [MCR's] fan base to comic books," Way told me."Predominantly our fan base was young women, [and in] talking to comic shop owners they said, 'These women are coming in and they're reading their first American comic,'" he said."I think I kind of had that audience come with me [for] that book, and I think they've come on to Doom Patrol as well.

"Now that I'm a lot older, I'm not in a band, I was able to really sit down and dig deep and learn how to write a comic book. [Collapser co-writer] Shaun Simon and Gerard really helped make me get my footing. I was always bouncing ideas off of both of them," Mikey continued. It was important for him to depict and explore anxiety in his series. Having Gerard as a resource, as well as having an offbeat imprint to call home, only made taking that risk easier.

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