It’s a bittersweet time for fans of the Netflix hit Umbrella Academy — the Hargreeves family finally say goodbye in the show’s final season. The fourth season of the superhero TV series arrived on Netflix on August 8. Following a group of adopted siblings with superhuman abilities, the series has gained a devoted following since it first launched in 2019. It stars Elliot Page as Viktor/White Violin, Tom Hopper as Luther/Spaceboy, Emmy Raver-Lampman as Allison/Rumor, Justin H. Min as Ben/Horror, Robert Sheehan as Klaus/Séance, Aidan Gallagher as Five/Boy and David Castañeda as Diego/Kraken. Together, the Hargreeves siblings have traveled for decades, averted apocalypses, and survived too many near-death experiences to count. And it all started as a comic book series of the same name, by My Chemical Romance singer Gerard Way.
The PEOPLE Puzzler has arrived! How fast can you solve it? Play now! Way created the comics illustrated by Gabriel Bá in 2007. Initially a limited run of six issues, Umbrella Academy it was eventually expanded into multiple series for Dark Horse Comics (and conveniently collected into multiple volumes). Umbrella Academy it also inspired a spinoff series Stories from the Umbrella Academyas well as short stories within the same universe. “I haven’t seen anything like that in comics Umbrella Academy”, said Way Rolling Stone comics in 2019. “I’ve seen a lot of things that tie into continuity that’s been going on for 50 years and stories that have been going on for that long, but I haven’t seen anything that throws the reader right into the end and pulls them right into the good stuff.”
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The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite
‘The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite’.
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The first six volumes Umbrella Academy relays the origin stories of the Hargreeves siblings. When 47 children around the world are born to women who previously showed no signs of pregnancy, billionaire Reginald Hargreeves adopts seven children who he soon discovers have extraordinary abilities. Over the years, he trains them to master their talents, and they become known to the world as The Umbrella Academy, a team of elite superheroes. However, the siblings had a strained relationship with their father, and when Reginald dies, the Academy reluctantly returns home as adults—just in time to save the world once more.
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Umbrella Academy: Dallas
After the apocalypse, the Hargreeves family must reckon with the consequences of the end of the world, as well as the death of their beloved mentor. Each brother struggles in his own way – Rumor has lost her powers, White Violin is bedridden after a severe injury, and Spaceboy is nearly catatonic. It is revealed that the Boy, however, may have answers to a series of mysterious massacres, throughout the next six issues of the comic, collected in this volume.
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Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion
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‘The Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion’.
Dark Horse books
Years after Reginald’s death, Umbrella Academy is scattered all over the world — Rumor is dealing with the breakdown of her marriage, the Kraken is on a mission, Spaceboy is roaming Tokyo, and the Boy is now a contract killer. The siblings’ troubled pasts finally catch up with them in the series’ final comic book collection.
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