‘Polarity’ comic book to please Say Anything fans

By Aymie Telinski

There is nothing I love more in life than when one of my favorite singers announces they are doing a project that is so unrelated to music.

When Max Bemis, the lead singer of the band Say Anything, announced he was coming out with not one comic book but four, I immediately began to find out everything I could about this new project.

The series will be called Polarity. It will be loosely based on Bemis’s life and how he dealt with being bipolar. Jorge Coelho is illustrating the series.

The comic will be released in April, and with each download of the comic, buyers will receive a download code for an original song from Bemis.

“Finding out I have bipolar, dealing with the disease, being in denial that I had it, screwing off and then eventually taking responsibility of it–that was sort of a drama in and of itself,” Bemis said, according to USAToday.com. “So in crafting this main character, my goal is to create the ultimate archetype of a guy like me dealing with this.”

Main character Timothy Woods survives a near-fatal car crash and discovers that his medication has been holding back his superpowers.

“So, the crazier he gets, the more powerful he becomes,” Bemis said, according to FanBoyComics.net. “He becomes stronger. He has limited telepathic abilities. He’s faster. It is as if the way you feel when you are actually manic, which has a lot of these qualities of experiencing life. It literally happens to him. So, as where someone who in real life who is bipolar feels like they can read people’s thoughts or they’re invincible, he actually becomes these things.”

The only place online I have found where you can purchase the series is on Boom-Studios.com. Each individual comic costs $3.99 plus shipping or you can buy the whole series for $19.99.

Boom-Studios.com reports that issue one comes out in April, issue two comes out in May, issue three comes out in June and the final issue comes out in July.