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The TV Series is Better

The Umbrella Academy Vol.1: Apocalypse Suite by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba

The Umbrella Academy Vol.2: Dallas by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba

The Umbrella Academy Vol.3: Hotel Oblivion by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba

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Cbr16bingo Earth Day, bingo I really enjoyed The Umbrella Academy series on Netflix and just did a binge of the first three seasons before watching the fourth and final season. Overall, I thought it was excellent. The resolution to the series was great and made sense of a lot of stuff that had been unresolved. I knew it was based on a graphic novel series and decided to pick it up and see how the the TV series compares to the original, and surprisingly for […]

Hold On Tight and Don’t Look Back

The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: California by Gerard Way, Shaun Simon, Becky Cloonan

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To put it as clearly as possible… There is something wrong with you and we are going to fix it. I’ve been having kind of a Danger Days summer. This following my Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge spring and my Black Parade winter. What can I say, when I discover a band I am sometimes prone to musically hyperfixate. So the thing about this review is that it is taking quite a lot of self restraint to keep it as a review of the book […]

Quick “Superhero” Fix

The Umbrella Academy Vol 1: Apocalypse Suite by Gerard Way

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Like many things I read I picked this because I knew the Netflix series was coming out (I read this a while ago and I am way behind in my reviews).  A group of kids forced into being superheroes and then what their lives were like as adults was up my alley. I was probably too young the first time I read The Watchman and have since always had a thing for dysfunctional heroes. The story was very quick. This was nice since I could […]

Super Powered Siblings and Family Issues Going Hand-In-Hand

Umbrella Academy 1: Apocalypse Suite by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá

Umbrella Academy 2: Dallas by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá

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I initially read the first 2 volumes of The Umbrella Academy series about 9 or 10 years ago, at which time there was a cover and title for the 3rd coming volume, Hotel Oblivion, but this was not released as issues until this past year. So, in anticipation of finally reading this next instalment, as well as the Netflix series to be released later this month, I figured it was time for a re-read as I remembered very few details. And it was just as […]

Son, when you grow up will you be the savior of the broken, the beaten, and the damned?

Umbrella Academy Vol. 1: The Apocalypse Suite by Gerard Way, Gabriel Ba

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I became interested in reading this series after watching the trailer for the upcoming Netflix series. It looks very fun and Wes Anderson-esquely quirky. So, I figured it was a good excuse to read the graphic novels first. In a mysterious worldwide event, forty-seven women, most of whom had not shown signs of pregnancy, gave birth. Of these children, millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves, AKA the Monocle, managed to track down and adopt seven. His reason for collecting the children? “To save the world.” The children […]

I’m not sure I understood it, but I liked it?

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“The world is hard and unforgiving, it can change you. Because we’re made up of all the things that happen to us. The good things fill your heart. But the bad things, and what we choose to do with them, really make us who we are…” Okay, so this was a weird one and I’m not sure I grasped everything that went down. I’m not at all familiar with Doom Patrol, so I don’t have any prior knowledge coming into this. I liked My Chemical […]



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