Mikey Way Online

In case anyone has forgotten, Gerard Way’s beloved baby brother Mikey is also penning a comic. His 8 page story will appear in DC Comics’ Halloween 08 issue which hits stores tomorrow (Wednesday, October 22).

In an interview with MTV, Mikey dishes out some more info on his comic. The story is based off The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and will star Batman and Scarecrow with art by Mateus Santoluoco. With his own industry connections independent of Gerard (Jim Lee, as well as his own friends and fellow comic geeks). Mikey said:

“The story follows the Scarecrow as Ichabod Crane and Batman as the Headless Horseman. I took the character of Jonathan Crane and put him in Tarrytown, New York, in the 1700s,” Way explained. “They gave me the option to write a story about any character in the DC Universe, and I was like, ‘Well, I’m gonna do Batman. I’ve got to do Batman.’ Then I had the idea for my story, and it seemed pretty straightforward, and I was sure someone else had done it already. So I had to go to all my friends — my council — and to Jim Lee, and be like, ‘Has anyone done a Batman story like this before?’ And we were all amazed that no one has.

“Then I just got down to writing it,” he continued, “and it turned out that there wasn’t that much pressure, because the whole book is artists and writers doing Halloween-based storylines. I ended up with something like 20 pages of dialogue, so the big problem was that I just had too much, and we had to cut some of it.”

Mikey plans on doing more in comics in the future, and assures us that My Chemical Romance is working behind the scenes and not just bumming around (not that we thought they were, anyway, however much those boys deserve to sit on their bums for awhile).

“The thing with us is that we’re always in the process of writing. You know, everyone is sitting around, working on riffs, and everyone’s got their own stuff going on,” Way said. “Personally, I’ve just been diddling around with songs, and if I come up with something good, I’ll call Gerard or [guitarist] Frank [Iero]. But what it really boils down to is this band really needed some time off, and that’s what we’re doing right now. We’re getting great time off.”

Way said that he and his MCR bandmates have “hung out a bunch,” but that the only time they’ve played together was when they entered a studio to record a version of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower” for director Zack Snyder’s much-anticipated film version of “Watchmen.” Other than that, the band appears to be miles away from beginning work on the follow-up to Welcome to the Black Parade, and though Way knows that news may disappoint fans, he promises that the wait will be worth it. Eventually.

They’re all playing around with music on their own terms, and Mikey says it keeps morphing from one thing to another and he has no idea what the end result will be, that they will be just as surprised with the end result as we will be.

Read more: MTV.com — My Chemical Romance Bassist Mikey Way Pens Batman Comic

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