The Umbrella Academy Volume 1: Apocalypse Suite
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In an inexplicable worldwide event, forty-seven extraordinary children were spontaneously born by women who had 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.
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2 primary booksThe Umbrella Academy
The Umbrella Academy is a 2-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2007 with contributions by Gerard Way.
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Normally I read the thing before watching the thing. However, I'm a rebel even with myself so I went ahead and watched the show first. And I absolutely loved it. Fast forward to now when i finally picked this up....and it was meh.
In comparison to the show...I am 100 percent on board with the changes that were made. I just am. I know it probably goes against Book Worm Rules that the book is always better....and even though that may be true 90 percent of the time ( don't look that up) it's not always the case so stop lying to yourself.
On the comic itself...it's a bit all over the place for me. Like the idea for the story is there and great but it wasn't executed to its full potential. Not bad. I've read bad. This was not bad. Just okay. The art work is not really my jam. Not including all the cover artwork which I think is fantastic.
Amazeballs artwork. It was difficult for me to follow the storyline because I'm not quite used to reading comics, but once I got the hand of it, it turned out to be an enjoyable read.
