Fall Out Boy song sparks comic book

By Bill Radford Comments 0
Published: October 7, 2009

The Fall Out Boy song "Tiffany Blews” has inspired a comic book, and that might be just the beginning.

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"Fall Out Toy Works,” a five-issue miniseries from Image Comics (www.imagecomics.com), is loosely based on the rock band’s "Tiffany Blews.” The first issue is in comic book shops now.

The comic book was created by Fall Out Boy bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz and Los Angeles designer Darren Romanelli, written by Brett Lewis ("Bulletproof Monk,” "The Winter Men”) and illustrated by Sam Basri of Imaginary Friends Studios.

The project, Wentz said via e-mail, "kind of came out of nowhere, like a tornado. Darren and I had just met up and decided to do a project together. I couldn’t really put together what the project would be yet, but I sent him a few songs as inspiration. The one that stuck was ‘Tiffany Blews.’”

The story is a "Pinocchio”-like tale set in a futuristic Los Angeles landscape reminiscent of "Blade Runner.” The first issue follows the down-on-his-luck Toymaker, tasked by the greedy Baron to create an artificial being capable of true love. A news release said further issues will explore "the complex relationship between the creator, the Toymaker, and the created, the android Tiffany, who embark on a turbulent ride in a world of unscrupulous characters and sinister plans to find the true meaning of life and love.”

"I think the core is the idea of manufactured love,” Wentz said. "The possibility of it and then the morality of it. Our world is headed there in a very slow way through social networking and the general disconnecting of human beings.”

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