Identify Containing Books The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: The Apocalypse Suite (The Umbrella Academy #1)
| Title | : | The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: The Apocalypse Suite (The Umbrella Academy #1) |
| Author | : | Gerard Way |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 184 pages |
| Published | : | July 22nd 2008 by Dark Horse Comics (first published October 17th 2007) |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. Fantasy. Fiction. Graphic Novels Comics. Science Fiction. Superheroes |
Gerard Way
Paperback | Pages: 184 pages Rating: 3.87 | 35026 Users | 2729 Reviews
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In an inexplicable worldwide event, forty-seven extraordinary children were spontaneously born to women who'd previously shown no signs of pregnancy. Millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves adopted seven of the children; when asked why, his only explanation was, "To save the world." These seven children form the Umbrella Academy, a dysfunctional family of superheroes with bizarre powers. Their first adventure at the age of ten pits them against an erratic and deadly Eiffel Tower, piloted by the fearsome zombie-robot Gustave Eiffel. Nearly a decade later, the team disbands, but when Hargreeves unexpectedly dies, these disgruntled siblings reunite just in time to save the world once again. Collecting: The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite 1-6, as well as out-of-print short stories and an expanded sketchbook section featuring work by Gabriel Bá, James Jean, and Gerard Way
Mention Books In Favor Of The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: The Apocalypse Suite (The Umbrella Academy #1)
| Original Title: | The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: Apocalypse Suite |
| ISBN: | 1593079788 (ISBN13: 9781593079789) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Umbrella Academy #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Harvey Awards for Best New |
| Series: | (2008), Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Limited |
| Series: | (2008) |
Rating Containing Books The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: The Apocalypse Suite (The Umbrella Academy #1)
Ratings: 3.87 From 35026 Users | 2729 ReviewsArticle Containing Books The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: The Apocalypse Suite (The Umbrella Academy #1)
I found Netflix's The Umbrella Academy joyous and silly and energetic and fun. The source material absolutely pales in comparison.Literally pales: the lack of diversity in the comic, compared to the show, is just one of many profound bummers one gets to experience by coming to this in reverse order.But there's also:--comparatively moronic character motivations--the characters reduced to thinness and blandness all around--Allison rendered utterly useless--Diego rendered unsympathetic (and hisI didn't love this... which is a shame because I like Gerard Way.I bought this about 6 months ago and I just started reading it when my coworkers started talking about the Netflix show. I like the art, for the most part. I just wished it'd been a tad more dramatic when the characters were having arguments. The premise is pretty interesting. I'm a sucker for superhumans and teams made up of different personalities and abilities. Where this lost me was the writing, sorry to say. I like the plot
Great concepts, lousy execution.The Umbrella Academy is a seemingly-random collection of plot points stapled haphazardly together in a garbled attempt at creating a story. The attempt fails. Rarely has so little been communicated in so many panels.43 babies are suddenly born to random non-pregnant women. The seven survivors are adopted and raised by a wealthy inventor who is an alien. His alienness is immediately set aside and forgotten. At age 10 the heroic children do battle with the
The art, the story...shitting my pants.World: The art, what can I said about Ba's art, it's stylish, it's beautiful, it's melancholy and small and intimate...and then guts and blood fly everywhere. It's just so beautiful. I loved his work in the Mignolaverse and I love it here. Those splash pages, soooo good. The world building is phenomenal, it's doesn't hand hold, it's doesn't info dump, but rather just pulls the reader into the world and let's them see and learn about the world and characters
This is the reason I love The Umbrella Academy:KLAUS is BAE.This is a case where the TV show is better than the book. I saw season one of the show before reading this, and honestly, this is a pale shadow of the show. You wouldn't even know Klaus was so awesome just by reading this. Or how tortured Allison/Rumor is or how secretly emotional Luther/Spaceboy/Number One is. And Vanya, wow. Her story was SO MUCH MORE fleshed out. Here, she is basically a shell of a girl who is easily manipulated into
as the back cover states, this is a comic with an arch Victorian sensibility. steampunk superheroes, i love it! in an alternate world, "43 extraordinary children were born..." and seven of them were collected, to form a super-powered super-team. they have powers like time travel and mind control and super-strength and super-agility and the ability to spawn cthulhic tentacles. they are pretty awesome. my favorite is the devious, cold-blooded little killer Number Five, a 10-year old with a 50-year
If you told me a year ago that a member of the hit band My Chemical Romance could pen a comic-book worthy of an Eisner nomination, I would have scoffed at the idea. But I relented when after many a recommendation within comic literary circles I picked up this first volume of the Umbrella Academy during my comic shops twice-yearly clearance sale. And what a smart purchase this was.A musical prodigy in his own right, Gerard Way blew me away with his deft story-telling, not to mention his ability
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