DC Entertainment has announced that musician/comic writer Gerard Way (Umbrella Academy) will curate a “pop-up imprint” called DC’s Young Animal, under which four mature readers titles will launch this fall.  Way will write or co-write three of the four titles, which he calls “comics for dangerous humans.” 

Way explained his vision for the imprint.  “I am thrilled to help bring DC’s Young Animal to life, having been raised on experimental 80s and 90s takes on superheroes,” he said. “I see Young Animal as a place to try new ideas -- following the spirit of those books from the past but bring them somewhere else.”

Doom Patrol, written by Way with art by Nick Derington, will be the flagship of the imprint, building on the Grant Morrison and other classic incarnations of the characters.  It launches in September.

In Shade the Changing Girl, a sci-fi thriller written by Cecil Castellucci with art by Marley Zarcone and covers by Becky Cloonan, an alien takes over the body of a 16-year-old bully.  Launching in October.

Written by Way and Jon Rivera, with art by Michael Avon Oeming, Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye stars a Silver Age character with a cybernetic eye and a college age daughter.  Launching in October.

Mother Panic, written by Way and Jody Houser with art by Tommy Lee Edwards, is set in Gotham City and follows Violet Paige, a celebrity heiress by day and brutal vigilante by night.   It launches in November. 

Click the Gallery below for art from all four series.