Since 1994, My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way has dipped out and in of creating comics. Past teaming with Gabriel Bá on The Umbrella Academy, he began DC’s Young Animal imprint, teamed with acclaimed artists similar to Nick Derington and Becky Cloonan, and co-created Peni Parker for Marvel. After a three-year absence from comics, Means has a brand new comedian dropping in July from writer Darkish Horse.
Co-written with Shaun Simon (his collaborator on The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys) and drawn by Choose Dredd’s Chris Weston, Paranoid Gardens is described as “Derek meets Physician Who in six psychotic episodes.” The ebook focuses on a care middle employee named Bathroom, who decides to rise via the ranks of her (presumably sentient) hospital, however not with out some roadblocks: together with corrupt employees and theme park cults, she’ll must face “her personal private demons and trauma to fulfill this problem and uncover what secrets and techniques the gardens maintain.”
“I’m excited to be again with my extremely good-looking and proficient brother-from-another-basement Shaun Simon,” stated Means, “and honored the masterful Chris Weston joined us to create a visually highly effective and emotionally tangible bodily object that’s this comedian. I’m now extra full attending to share one thing we’ve wished to for a really very long time, and dealing with this incredible group of people within the course of.”
In his personal assertion, Weston stated he, Simon, and Means have created “a wild and psychedelic story that mixes Kafkaesque nightmares with candy Silver Age reveries. […] You’ll discover a curious care-home peopled with aliens, ghosts and caped heroes recovering from psychotic episodes. The very floor it’s constructed on is febrile and fertile; and lusted after by the minions of Mammon. It’s the right treatment for all these stricken with super-hero fatigue and needing a repair of one thing a bit extra mind-bending and unpredictable.”
Paranoid Gardens’ six-issue run will begin on July 17.
[by way of Deadline]
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