My comic book romance: why Gerard Way ditched emo for ink

The former frontman of My Chemical Romance discusses his love for comics and his own titles that he’ll be unveiling at New York Comic Con this week It’s perhaps an exaggeration to say that comic books saved Gerard Way’s life, but they certainly played their part. “I was often quite a depressed teenager,” says the former My Chemical Romance frontman. “I didn’t even know there was such a thing as group therapy until I read about it in a Doom Patrol comic.&