My Chemical Romance call it a day

yeah those sites all have ludicrously high figures that seem predicated on the assumption that entertainers and athletes save and wisely invest every dollar they've ever made which uh

oh not superhero comics at all,

although it's the most blatant Grant Morrison Doom Patrol tribute band ever

gerrard has a p lucritave comic book career too

the last issue of Umbrella Academy sold under 21k copies, in May 2009; at 4% of cover he would have made $2500. how many houses do you think he bought with that in the last four years?

yeah but he's just one Hollywood studio option away from his big payoff

he probably made more money doing that song for the Watchmen soundtrack than every comic book he's ever written combined

he's married to the woman from MSI who's basically one kickstarter away from $1.2m

Deftones aren't 5 steps above anyone because they are garbage

LOL righttt in a thread hyping MCR this makes my day. keep it comin' champ.

the last issue of Umbrella Academy sold under 21k copies, in May 2009; at 4% of cover he would have made $2500.

not that i have any actual idea of how much he's making on anything but the original collected TPB reps over 45,000 copies, if the 4% cover thing stands that's $32000. then there was volume 2 tpb . ...and the limited edition hardcovers of both (~1500 copies, no idea what the original price was but LOL some are being resold on amazon for $900!). ...then add in the 6 individual issues of the first volume. the 4 of the second volume. just saying he's probably made a bit more than $2500 off them.

wikipedia mentions hollywood was already tryin' to movie it but it's gotten fizz-ly and is back to just alks.

*talks

original collected TPB reps over 45,000 copies, if the 4% cover thing stands that's $32000

damn, spread out that's over $6000 a year he's pulled in - no wonder he's splitting up the band

^loll right since that's what i said. you're not too good at comprehension (or math) huh. anywayyyy

haha is this some kind of I Love Comics goon beef spillover?

made a spotify playlist of mcr DEEP CUTS: http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2013/03/deep-album-cuts-vol-4-my-chemical.html

nah fauxmarc's not an ILC-er

since that's what i said

well I quoted you directly. you're arguing specifically for his comics career being so "lucrative" that it would be a significant factor in making him a millionaire (with significantly higher than one solitary million dollars).

I cited the figures from his last published comic bcz this would be the best pointer as to what his "career" would be bringing in if it actually existed, and hadn't been something he last did four years ago. if you want to throw in the sales on the Dallas tpb, go ahead! and I'll work out some totals and we can see how high over $1,000,000 they'd bring his net wealth, but they do have to get broken down over six years to represent a career, ie ongoing income even if there's no new output

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^^^

i can't really think of a big rock band in the past decade that made such great pop songs so consistently

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linkin park~

there really aren't many big rock bands in the past decade period. much less ones that had pop hits over a prolonged period of time (arguably MCR didn't).

didn't say hits tho

fair enough. i don't really think of their songs as "pop songs" but i mean they're catchy as fuck so i can't quibble.

I have to say "Vampire Money" is a pretty good tune to go out on. Though it would have been pretty amusing if they'd had the stones to make "Gun." the radio single off Conventional Weapons.

ha i wouldn't be surprised if they were in the middle of writing another album full of bloody shootouts and then Sandy Hook happened and they were like "y'know what, fuck it"

They won me over after a show. I didn't become a fan but it was enough to not hate them anymore

gerard way's been livetweeting the mcr records since last night. so far he's done danger days and conventional weapons. he digs out a lot of fun references in the former; biggest revelation for the latter is that it's mostly about his experiences in the band during and immediately after black parade

oh i guess he tweeted about black parade and three cheers even earlier!

i really like this new frank iero track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMTvTRITbn0

also if you haven't heard this gerard way track you are missing out. album due next month!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbk72F10Vgo

I'm old and I love MCR. The Black Parade is on my list of Top Ten Albums of All Time.

both songs sound great, looking forward to the solo album era

Black Parade is so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsDSIEq7O08

into this. very danger days

uh the gerard way record rules

nice -- the first two singles were great

feel like this is a "fans of the patrick stump solo album unite" situation

hard to describe why i'm so enthusiastic about it but it's just a great pop rock record idk

just great pop rock

i'm glad to hear it's good, I was hoping it would be!

i have a piece about it coming out tomorrow

but i like it

http://www.wonderingsound.com/feature/gerard-way-hesitant-alien-reprise-review/

sold :D

Streaming here:

https://soundcloud.com/gerardway

ah jeez i fucking love this record

I've had a listen to a bit of it and I'm feeling it

Gonna hold off listening to much more til release day, feel like this one will be a keeper

not sure how I feel about the production yet but there are definitely some tunes in there, "Millions" and the closer really stuck out on first listen

OMG this album

best glam album since danger days which was the best glam album since mechanical animals

See, I'm glad YOU remember that Mechanical Animals is a brilliant as fuck glam album, some days I feel very alone on that point.

the mid/late 90s glam revival must have been a big deal to Gerard. hell, his album title is pretty close to the title of that Spacehog album.

*starts mechanical animals appreciation thread*

PLEASE DO

Mechanical Animals is so fucking great