Killjoy History 2.0

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Better Living

Character Sketches

Inked sketches from the comics by Becky Cloonan. Shared by Comic Book Resources (2/11/2011).

SHAUN: We haven’t actually seen him yet. I don’t want to say too much about him but an accurate description of him would be: “flamboyant murder-tech”. 

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Dead Pegasus Website

Most people know about the old Better Living website, but did you know that Dead Pegasus had a website as well? The website is linked on the company’s official YouTube channel. The website has since been taken down, but you can still view it through the Wayback Machine. The site is empty except for a picture of the Dead Pegasus logo and a mysterious counter in the top-right corner (click the “X” on the Wayback Machine toolbar to see it.)

SHAUN: It’s still going to take place in contemporary America. But one of the major themes is that your perception of reality is much more important than reality itself. For example, I spent most of my teenage years skateboarding, before it became popular and a corporate money making industry - we were looked at as outsiders back then. When I would walk down the street I didn’t see what everyone else saw. Benches weren’t for sitting, they were for grinding. Stairs weren’t for walking up; they were for hurling yourself down. Handrails weren’t for holding onto, but for sliding your board down. Cops weren’t there to protect us, but to chase us and ruin our fun. The city wasn’t 9-5 jobs and scrolling stock numbers; it was one huge skate park. So the way I saw the world wasn’t the same as the stockbroker who was walking right beside me. There is a huge difference in the way a businessman perceives the world and the way a child does. 

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Juice Boxes

BL/ind-themed juice boxes offered at a signing with Becky Cloonan and Shaun Simon at Big Planet Comics (5/7/2014).

SHAUN: There’s this phrase I’ve had in my head for a long time now, which is: “If you don’t change the world, it will change you.” You need to start by changing YOUR world. And it all starts with activation. Something or someone needs to activate you, turn your power switch on, make you operate at full capacity and realize all that you are capable of doing. It could be anything that does it - the first time you hear a punk-rock song, read a certain book, see a movie or painting, meet someone special, or watch an old lady struggle to walk across the street. Something needs to spark within you and give you the inspiration to put you foot on the gas pedal and not look back. It’s a shame because I don’t see it happen as much as it should. There is a major lack of drive in the world today. Everything is too easy. Why go out and start my own life when I could keep living at my parents, that sort of thing. We need to electro-shock our society back to life. Cut the TV cable and inject yourself with actual real life experiences. Go make something happen. 

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SHAUN: Not at this point, but if there were it probably wouldn’t be a video game. It would be based off of Twister, but instead of a mat with different coloured circles, it would be a very nondescript mannequin in a white suit with different colour laser blast holes in it. It would be played slightly faster, more like a dancing pace. Aside from that, the concept is pretty much the same. 

Tote Bag

Official Danger Days tote bag. No longer available.

Stickers

Prop stickers used throughout the music videos, sold by an unknown entity on eBay. There were confirmed to be legitimate by prop designer Jason Fijal.

Way: “Vanishing Point!” For me, that movie was the early one we looked at. The DJ in “Vanishing Point” is the unsung DJ of ’70s movies. [Laughs] When it was just a guy named Mike Milligram going on this odyssey with his radio talking to him–which was one of the original incarnations of this–we were very much paying attention to “Vanishing Point.”

Shaun Simon: I think that’s what started it, and then after the record, Gerard had built this whole world around the Killjoys. When it came time for the comic, Gerard called me up and said, “We ran out of money. We wanted to make the third video, but we don’t have the money. So do you want to make the idea for that video into a comic?” We started talking about ideas, and we had so many that it turned into this whole series.