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“But this one was just so a part of my brain that I wanted to make this concept album that connected with the comic,” he continues. “But because of that, I had changed some things about it for the sake of being part of MCR, and I made things a little more dystopian, a little more like a colourful punk-rock post-Mad Max thing. There was an evil corporation, because a lot of the album Killjoys is like art vs. commerce so I wanted to show that: these free and colourful people vs. like the stark white, sterile kinda corporate society.”
“So the story changed a lot and it really started out about a bunch of teenagers that could bend reality by tapping into their trauma. That’s how Killjoys really started, and that’s something that I think we’ll revisit one day.”
Gerard previously stated that Danger Days “helped refine” the idea for Killjoys, with the comic book arriving three years after the album.
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