Dabel Bros. Responds to Fall Out Boy
Mon, July 14th, 2008 at 12:02PM PST
Updated: Mon, July 14th, 2008 at 12:10PM PST


In an interview with CBR News earlier this month, Andy Hurley, noted fanboy and drummer for the popular emo/pop-punk band Fall Out Boy, addressed the subject of the announced but yet-to-be-released Fall Out Boy comic book from Dabel Brothers Publishing, saying he hardly knew anything about it; that what he did know was decidedly unsatisfactory; and that the project was never actually approved.

Explained Hurley, “I don't know what happened. All I know is there was a press release about it and then all of a sudden I get some emails from some of our people saying, ‘Hey, so you want to help write it?’ And I was like, ‘If it's a comic about our band, it's the lamest thing ever.’ I mean, I'm not going to read it, so why would I help write it? So I kind of said that and they got back to me and said, ‘Well, we never said okay to this. We never gave it the green light. It just kind of went out and now we have to play catch up with it and deal with it.’ So with that whole thing, I don't really know what's happening. I wasn't really a part of it.”

Hurley's remarks appeared to contradict an announcement made in February of this year in which the musician said the Dabel Brothers project gave he and his bandmates “the opportunity to create different versions of ourselves and tell an interesting story at the same time.”

Following the publication of our interview with Andy Hurley, Dabel Brothers Business Director Rich Young contacted CBR News with a response to the drummer’s comments, detailing the near-derailment of the Fall Out Boy comic by “The Simpsons” legal apparatus (the band’s name is taken from the name of the sidekick of Radioactive Man, a comic book superhero within the show with his own comic published by Bongo Comics) and Dabel’s endeavors to keep the project alive. The following is Young’s statement in its entirety:

( He kind of has a lot to say... )

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