Casually adding books to my TBR because they’re based on albums I like. Gotta fuel my obsessions.

This reminds me of something Jamie Hewlett would do if he and Damon Albarn ever turned Gorillaz into a comic. Becky Cloonan has a similar clean look and popping colors to her art. And it does turn out that this is meant to be something of a companion piece to the My Chemical Romance album Danger Days. This is set is a dystopian future. One where it feels there was a comic before this that you missed where lots of things happened that are only referenced here. Still there was something about it t...

I love this. I love this so much. The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys is a continuation of the story told in the music videos 'Na Na Na' and 'Sing' by My Chemical Romance (my favourite band and I am still in denial about their split) from their album Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys. It's basically the aftermath of the showdown between Better Living industries and the Killjoys, a sneak-peak into Battery City and it's way of life and basically what everything means. If you...

Read it because I follow Becky Cloonan's works, and she didn't disappoint. She has her nice style and this is some of her most professional, clean work she's done. I hated the story though. It didn't do anything for me. There were some interesting concepts presented but they were presented in such a disorientating way. I didn't care about any of the characters, and eventually just started looking at the artwork and not caring about the story. It took me months to finish this book, I finally read...

*Slaps this book on a table*: this baby can fit so much nostalgia in it you’re gonna put “The Kids From Yesterday” on replay at 4 A.M. and cry

The world-building of this universe is SO FASCINATING, so it was a real shame to pick up this comic and discover that everything else about it was mediocre. The art was great—Becky Cloonan is an incredibly talented illustrator—but what little plot there was didn't hold my attention.

We all know the future is going to suck in a big way, but could someone at least write a fairly entertaining graphic novel about it. Well, some people can: See The Massive as an example. Gerard Way, sorry, but no, I’ll pass on your dystopian vision. Why? Let’s see:Random and unfocused world building - checkIncoherent story – checkSub plots that flow together like sewage and wine - checkPoorly conceived characters you don’t care about – checkCharacters whose motivations are a complete mystery – c...

Sure, who doesn't want to flee to the desert, wear Beetlejuice leggings and leather jackets, dye their hair bright colors and wear make-up, join a snotty punk-rock gang of outlaws and plan daring overthrows of corporate America (that heartless machine we all agree we hate)? But that doesn't excuse a barely patched together comic based off of the flimsy plotting of a fucking rock opera. Not even the lithe, cyber-punk meets Road Warrior artwork can save this throwaway teenage daydream. Meh. Read t...

The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys must be reviewed in two ways. First, as with any book, it must be reviewed as a stand-alone work. However, given the larger Killjoys world that Way has crafted, The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys must also be reviewed as the third corner of the Killjoys media triangle.In isolation, The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys is a relatively solid book. Visually and lyrically, the book is highly-stylized. The art is colorful and explosive. The text is punc...

I decided to have a Gerard Way kinda day - so I sat back and listened to Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys. It's a pretty fantastic album, if you like that sort of music - modern punk rock, more subversive than the likes of, say, The Sex Pistols, but no less intrinsically angry, and with the sort of narrative creativity that reminds one of the likes of envelope-pushing proto-punk like Velvet Underground. Wait. What website am I on? Oh, right, Goodreads. It's a good album, thou...

To start with, I have never listened to a My Chemical Romance record, nor have I ever seen a MCR music video. I'm reviewing this work on its own merits. And it's not very good.The art is fine, there are some sparks in the world building, but the story is confusing and yet manages to be dull as dishwater at the same time. I can barely remember one character's name. There are so many of them, and they're all badly defined. So many pages to tell a solid story, and what we get is a horribly clichéd

A very entertaining comic. It was good to see how the Danger Days album led to the videos which became the backstory of this.

Simple story, good ideas, nice artwork though the characters aren't very fresh out (an introduction for the main crew at the beginning would have been nice), the ending is a bit rushed because the creators had to stuff everything into one single volume, but as a whole it's still good.Sadly we don't get to see any of the original Killjoys as different persons through an entire book, still I like that the heroine's (view spoiler)[mother turns out to be still alive and meet with her daughter again

The Killjoys lost their lives fighting against the tyrannical megacorporation, Better Living Industries, and now their followers hide out in the desert looking for any chance to fight back. When Girl turns up–one of the only survivors of the original group–she brings with her the hope of bringing down BLInd once and for all. Trigger warnings: character death, violence, guns, prostitution, grief.I was never much of a My Chemical Romance fan, so I’m not that familiar with the album this comic foll...

*Thanks to Edelweiss and the publisher for providing me with an eARC in exchange for an honest review.*This was utter nonsense. I would’ve given it one star if it wasn’t for the fantastic art and beautiful colours.The plot was more than what I’d call a hot mess, it was a steaming pile of porno droid junk scraps that have been festering in the heat of the unnamed desert featured in this comic where it should have stayed.Nothing made sense and nothing was explained. Therein lies the entire problem...

i think i stand by the three star rating, this definitely has a lot of nostalgia for me because the aesthetic is impeccable and it had the first visible lgbt rep in comics i remember reading in my early teen, but theres a lot missing here that i hope to maybe get with this new run.

I really enjoy concept albums. I first became aware of the My Chemical Romance album Danger Days: True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys when I caught the music video for "Na Na Na" on late night television. I was caught up in the world, so it was pretty exciting when I saw that MCR front-man Gerard Way had teamed up with comics writer Shaun Simon to explore what happened after the album and the videos. I think only the "Na Na Na" and "Sing" videos are absolutely necessary, but I'd still recommend

Fabulous illustrations and a medicore story. The story was rambling and I just couldn't put it all together. It seemed very juvenile for this type of comic. Perhaps if I had read the previous series ? I did enjoy the colorful artwork enough to finish out the book but don't plan on continuing.

This is probably more of a 2.5 rounded up and I really really wish I liked it more. I think my main problems were that 1. I should have read it back when it first came out and 2. it seems to follow directly off of the end of the music videos that they put out for the Danger Days album and I never actually watched all of them because there was one that had like 11 parts and I was just like #I'm out lol. I mean you can pick up most of the story from context clues if you've seen the first few music...

I wanted to like this. I really did. It had all the elements that make up a story I'd love; written by Gerard Way, continuity from MCR, great artwork (though I would have preferred Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon).And it did start off with the bang and rush of adrenaline that characterizes MCR. But then it just sort of...petered down to a supremely disappointing anti-climax. I had to admit by the third or fourth issue that it didn't meet expectations. The characters were weak, the story line was weak,...