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The Umbrella Academy
The Umbrella Academy is an absurdist superhero comic book series created by writer Gerard Way and artist Gabriel Bá. It follows a dysfunctional family of adopted superhero siblings with bizarre powers attempting both to save the world and find their place within it. Published by Dark Horse Comics, the comic is released in limited series, typically lasting six issues. Since 2007, three volumes have been completed, as have two spin-offs. The fourth volume of the main series began publication in June 2025.
The comic has garnered a close following and has been praised by critics, with the first limited series, Apocalypse Suite, winning the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Finite Series/Limited Series. A popular television adaptation ran on Netflix from 2019 to 2024.
The titular Umbrella Academy is described as a "dysfunctional family of superheroes". In the mid-20th century, at the instant of the finishing blow in a cosmic wrestling match, forty-three superpowered infants are inexplicably born to random, unconnected women across the world who showed no signs of pregnancy at the start of the day. Sir Reginald Hargreeves, an extraterrestrial disguised as a famous entrepreneur, adopts seven of the children and prepares them to save the world from an unspecified threat as the Umbrella Academy.
Eventually, the team disbands and the siblings fall out of contact with each other until they meet again as adults on the news of Hargreeves' death, and subsequently become a team again when one of their own becomes a supervillain.
The Academy's founder, Sir Reginald Hargreeves, was an alien disguised as a wealthy human entrepreneur and world-renowned scientist, and callously trained and experimented on the children to make them into superheroes. As such, he was the cause of much of the team's psychological scarring and trauma. He is dead when the Umbrella Academy reunites.
The primary Academy members are Luther/Spaceboy, who possesses super-strength, Diego/The Kraken, who can manipulate the direction of projectiles, Allison/The Rumor, who can manipulate reality by lying, Klaus/The Séance, a psychic who can connect with the dead, and Number Five, a skilled assassin able to jump through time at will, with his travels through the timeline trapping his sixty year old mind in his unageing, ten-year-old body. Ben/The Horror possessed tentacles that emerged from his stomach, but he is also dead when the Academy comes back together.
Vanya was officially a part of the Academy, but was drugged by their father and told for years that she had no powers, before she learns she has the power to channel destructive sound waves through her violin.
Way has stated that his biggest influence on Umbrella Academy was his favorite writer, Grant Morrison, and their work on Doom Patrol with DC Comics. He has also cited Pat McEown of ZombieWorld: Champion of the Worms and his favorite artist, Edvin Biuković, and his comic Grendel Tales as other major inspirations.
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The Umbrella Academy
The Umbrella Academy is an absurdist superhero comic book series created by writer Gerard Way and artist Gabriel Bá. It follows a dysfunctional family of adopted superhero siblings with bizarre powers attempting both to save the world and find their place within it. Published by Dark Horse Comics, the comic is released in limited series, typically lasting six issues. Since 2007, three volumes have been completed, as have two spin-offs. The fourth volume of the main series began publication in June 2025.
The comic has garnered a close following and has been praised by critics, with the first limited series, Apocalypse Suite, winning the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Finite Series/Limited Series. A popular television adaptation ran on Netflix from 2019 to 2024.
The titular Umbrella Academy is described as a "dysfunctional family of superheroes". In the mid-20th century, at the instant of the finishing blow in a cosmic wrestling match, forty-three superpowered infants are inexplicably born to random, unconnected women across the world who showed no signs of pregnancy at the start of the day. Sir Reginald Hargreeves, an extraterrestrial disguised as a famous entrepreneur, adopts seven of the children and prepares them to save the world from an unspecified threat as the Umbrella Academy.
Eventually, the team disbands and the siblings fall out of contact with each other until they meet again as adults on the news of Hargreeves' death, and subsequently become a team again when one of their own becomes a supervillain.
The Academy's founder, Sir Reginald Hargreeves, was an alien disguised as a wealthy human entrepreneur and world-renowned scientist, and callously trained and experimented on the children to make them into superheroes. As such, he was the cause of much of the team's psychological scarring and trauma. He is dead when the Umbrella Academy reunites.
The primary Academy members are Luther/Spaceboy, who possesses super-strength, Diego/The Kraken, who can manipulate the direction of projectiles, Allison/The Rumor, who can manipulate reality by lying, Klaus/The Séance, a psychic who can connect with the dead, and Number Five, a skilled assassin able to jump through time at will, with his travels through the timeline trapping his sixty year old mind in his unageing, ten-year-old body. Ben/The Horror possessed tentacles that emerged from his stomach, but he is also dead when the Academy comes back together.
Vanya was officially a part of the Academy, but was drugged by their father and told for years that she had no powers, before she learns she has the power to channel destructive sound waves through her violin.
Way has stated that his biggest influence on Umbrella Academy was his favorite writer, Grant Morrison, and their work on Doom Patrol with DC Comics. He has also cited Pat McEown of ZombieWorld: Champion of the Worms and his favorite artist, Edvin Biuković, and his comic Grendel Tales as other major inspirations.