Shaun Simon

Shaun Simon is an American comics writer. He wrote The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys with Gerard Way, lead vocalist of My Chemical Romance, for Dark Horse Comics as well as writing Neverboy, also for Dark Horse. He also wrote Collapser with Mikey Way for DC Comics.
He is currently working on the upcoming The Umbrella Academy spinoff prequel series based on Klaus Hargreeves titled You Look Like Death due to be released starting June 2020

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