The Umbrella Academy Volume 3: Hotel Oblivion
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With a new Netflix series, the best-selling graphic novels return—with the original creators!
Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance, Doom Patrol) and Gabriel Bá (Two Brothers, Casanova) have earned awards and accolades on their separate projects, and finally return to their breakout 2007 hit, for the latest chapter in the bizarre lives of their former teen superhero team.
Faced with an increasing number of lunatics with superpowers eager to fight his own wunderkind brood, Sir Reginald Hargreeves developed the ultimate solution ...
Now, just a few years after Hargreeves's death, his Umbrella Academy is scattered. Number Five is a hired gun, Kraken is stalking big game, Rumor is dealing with the wreckage of her marriage, an out-of-shape Spaceboy runs around the streets of Tokyo, Vanya continues her physical therapy after being shot in the head--and no one wants to even talk about what Séance is up to ...
The award-winning and best-selling superhero series returns, stranger than ever—And their past is coming back to hunt them.
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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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Even with giving myself a little refresh of the plot from the first two, there were lots of plot threads here that didn't make sense or weave into any larger story. Have always liked the weirdness and Ba's art, but this felt needlessly scattered.
Fascinating continuation and expansion of the narrative if a bit psychedelic in the telling.
Woah! There's a lot going on (not that that wasn't the case in the previous volumes but it's even more so here) so many characters and stories. It's almost like flicking through the TV channels and trying to make an overall plot out of the snapshots.
I'm not saying I didn't enjoy it because I did. I'm just not quite sure what I enjoyed! Bá's artwork is delightfully graphic, bright and garish and at times the only thing holding the whole thing together. Way's ideas are huge, probably too big to be confined to even a double spread but worth letting yourself go along for the ride.
As before it ends with a beginning, probably this time a beginning that wil never end.
Overall: flawed - yes, yet I am sure I will return to this series again and again.
