My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way has taken up a unique side project: writing comic books. The singer signed on with Dark Horse comics to produce a new series called Umbrella Academy, about Sir Reginald Hargreeves, a "world-renowned scientist and inventor, intrepid adventurer, successful entrepreneur, champion cricketer, and closet space-alien," and his seven super-human kids, according to Dark Horse. In the comics, the kids need to "learn to get past their spectacularly dysfunctional childhoods" to save the world.

"When Gerard came to us, we were obviously excited and receptive to him doing comics," said Dark Horse's Jeremy Atkins. "Once we saw it, we were totally sold." The first series of Umbrella Academy will make its debut in early- to mid-2007 with six issues which will then be compiled into a graphic novel. Atkins says there will be several series in the next few years.

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