Albany's Clay People find rock music, comics a perfect match

From KISS pouring vials of its members’ blood into the ink of its inaugural Marvel Comics line in 1977 to Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance’s acclaimed “Umbrella Academy” series, the worlds of rock music and comic books have long been intertwined. Now, The Clay People have added a local connection to that legacy.

On March 16, the long-running Albany hard rockers released “The Clay People: Colossus” in conjunction with nationally renowned imprints Top Cow and Ep1t0me. It’s a reimagining of the band’s 2018 song “Colossus,” taking frontman Dan Neet’s lyrics of personal strife into a story about a biracial boy in the Midwest using a supernatural gift from his grandfather to push back against two older bullies.