gwhiz-138:

vacationadventuresociety:

summary of Gerard’s panel today

Some Important Quotes:

• “He’s also building a home studio and will soon be starting to make music again, he said, to applause. He’s not happy focusing on only comics or only music, but needs both and wants to achieve that. Writing comics can make him feel “closed off and disconnected from other human beings”, whereas writing songs come “naturally”, but music is just physically tiring. So they are different experiences.”
  
• “He went through a sad, intense time when the band broke up, and many went on to make their own stuff, but his growth process really only started after making Hesitant Alien. He decided he wanted to bring more “positivity and light” after that. He feels he’s changed a lot and “come a long way”. He’s spent a lot of time in therapy, which he found beneficial.
  Way said that doing music may, in future, be as weird as Doom Patrol. Usually what he works on connects together, so it’ll probably happen. Hesitant Alien links to early Doom Patrol, but as he moves deeper into Doom Patrol, he thinks it’ll get weirder. He realized lately that the comics need to come first, and the music later.”
  
• “Talking about new Umbrella Academy, to applause, Way said it’s about “strange and unusual punishment, villains, and more stuff like that”. He’s always planned for there to be 8 series, with one publishing per year, and that’s still the plan. They got behind to start with due to other projects, but now they are more focused.”