Gerard Way, Shaun Simon, and Becky Cloonan. Dark Horse, $19.99 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-5958-2462-2
Although it is visually energetic and brimming with interesting artistic choices, this story, derived from the eponymous album and videos by Way’s (Umbrella Academy) former band My Chemical Romance, still struggles to provide much in the way of...
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Gerard Way, Nick Derrington, and Tamra Bonvillain. DC, $16.99 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-4012-6979-1
Way (The Umbrella Academy) delivers a reunion that pulls a lot of the past into the future as this classic DC team tries to reunite around a new face, ambulance driver Casey Brinke. This requires a reintroduction to some classic characters like...
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Jon Rivera, Gerard Way, and Michael Avon Oeming. Young Animal, $16.99 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-4012-7082-7
One would expect rollicking, madcap adventure from a comic series with a name like this, and the creative team—writers Rivera and Way and artist Oeming—partially delivers, but zaniness comes at the expense of intelligibility. The story opens with...
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Gerard Way, Author, Gabriel Ba, Illustrator . Dark Horse $17.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-59582-345-8
The second installment in this Eisner-winning series, Dallas
is even more surreal and darkly quirky than its predecessor. The Umbrella Academy is a group of superheroes who were mysteriously born at the same time, adopted and raised together as a...
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