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Preview: Umbrella Academy: Plan B #3

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Umbrella Academy: Plan B #3

Writer: Gerard Way
Artist: Gabriel Bá
Colorist: Dave Stewart
Letterer: Nate Piekos
Cover Artist: Gabriel Bá

With the Sparrows running the show, everyone is seeking help to cope with their new reality. Klaus is in a support group. Five is auditioning for a job. Spaceboy is having transcending conversations with his childhood hero, and Rumor is about to have a surprise that might put her world upside down. Between visions from the past and plans for the future, a mother just wants to see her children together again.

Umbrella Academy: Plan B #3

Preview: The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #2

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The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #2

(W) Gerard Way, Gabriel Bá (A) Gabriel Bá

With the Umbrella Academy exiled in the Hotel Oblivion, the Sparrows have taken over the city with a strong hand, making sure everyone knows who’s in control now. While Rumor tries to figure out how to beat them, Five and Kraken are done listening to her ideas and prefer going back to the battlefield. Calhoun makes a pitch to the President of the United States on how to deal with this superhero situation, but there’s an election coming and they can’t rush their next move. Where does Vanya fit in on all this? What about those visions? Who’s Deever talking to? Lovely questions with answers coming in every issue.

The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #2

Preview: The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #2

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The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #2

(W) Gerard Way, Gabriel Bá (A) Gabriel Bá

With the Umbrella Academy exiled in the Hotel Oblivion, the Sparrows have taken over the city with a strong hand, making sure everyone knows who’s in control now. While Rumor tries to figure out how to beat them, Five and Kraken are done listening to her ideas and prefer going back to the battlefield. Calhoun makes a pitch to the President of the United States on how to deal with this superhero situation, but there’s an election coming and they can’t rush their next move. Where does Vanya fit in on all this? What about those visions? Who’s Deever talking to? Lovely questions with answers coming in every issue.

The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #2

The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #1 is like getting kicked in the teeth after a six year nap

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Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba’s The Umbrella Academy is back with its fourth volume, Plan B. The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #1 offers readers of the comics their first extended glimpse of The Sparrow Academy who terrorize and subvert our protagonists every step of the way beginning with Ba’s clever cover for the comic, which features a sort of vandalism of the usual team shot and succinctly tells the story of The Sparrow Academy’s first mission in an airplane seatback diagram meets a school composition book design. There are call backs to The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite #1 with Way and Ba showing the surface similarities between The Umbrella and Sparrow Academies before ripping them apart.

The plot of The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #1 is the comic book equivalent is kicking a dog while it’s down over and over again. Oh, and then let’s rub your cute little face in the mud and treat the characters that you have been spent years connecting with in both the comics and television medium with the utmost of disrespect. Part of the appeal of The Umbrella Academy is the utterly screwed up nature of the book’s main cast, and Way and Ba play on this vulnerability for maximum drama and a colorful action sequence. Seriously, Gabriel Ba and colorist Dave Stewart bring out the bright lights and surrealism to establish the Sparrow Academy’s abilities and personalities through action not exposition. For everything The Umbrella Academy throws at them, there’s a superior countermeasure. And, of course, pulling the strings in the background like it was revealed in Hotel Oblivion is the android Mom, who raised the Umbrella Academy members while Sir Reginald Hargreaves was doing God knows what. A borderline-fascist android antagonist definitely hits home in 2025 in the era of Open AI taking over everything especially with Mom being the original “trad wife”.

Reading The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #1 is like getting kicked in the teeth after a six year nap. Gerard Way lets Ba’s visuals drive the momentum of the comic while giving everyone a much anticipated Umbrella vs Sparrow Academy throwdown that lives up to the hype. I marvel at the book’s powerful approach to fight choreography as well as the smart color choices from Stewart that help keep the long list of combatants distinct. Plus Way and Gabriel Ba’s prose is still as quirky and rhythmic as ever with the Sparrow Academy playing the role of upstart opening band that really should be the headliner in every way. Plan B is a confident return for The Umbrella Academy series, and I’m excited to see how the story plays out of this summer. It could make for entertaining reading while you wait in various lines to see My Chemical Romance on their “Long Live the Black Parade Tour”.

Story: Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba Art: Gabriel Ba
Colors: Dave Stewart Letters: Nate Piekos
Story: 8.0 Art: 9.0 Overall: 8.5 Recommendation: Buy

Dark Horse Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

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Preview: The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #1

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The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #1

(W) Gerard Way, Gabriel Ba (CA) Gabriel Ba
In Shops: Jun 11, 2025
SRP: $4.99

After the mass release of The City’s greatest foes and the chaos that followed in Hotel Oblivion, the Umbrella Academy face their most fearsome challenge to date-their other brothers and sisters. Known only as The Sparrows, they share a different connection to Sir Reginald Hargreeves and Mom. No one knows how to hurt each other more than family, and this powerful, ruthless brood will spare no brutality in favor of their sole objective-control, and the obedient glare that comes with it. A harrowing and action-filled study of ambition, futility, and violence-The Umbrella Academy: Plan B is what happens when those far more powerful tell us what we need.

The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #1

Early Review: The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #1 is like getting kicked in the teeth after a six year nap

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Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba’s The Umbrella Academy is back with its fourth volume, Plan B. The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #1 offers readers of the comics their first extended glimpse of The Sparrow Academy who terrorize and subvert our protagonists every step of the way beginning with Ba’s clever cover for the comic, which features a sort of vandalism of the usual team shot and succinctly tells the story of The Sparrow Academy’s first mission in an airplane seatback diagram meets a school composition book design. There are call backs to The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite #1 with Way and Ba showing the surface similarities between The Umbrella and Sparrow Academies before ripping them apart.

The plot of The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #1 is the comic book equivalent is kicking a dog while it’s down over and over again. Oh, and then let’s rub your cute little face in the mud and treat the characters that you have been spent years connecting with in both the comics and television medium with the utmost of disrespect. Part of the appeal of The Umbrella Academy is the utterly screwed up nature of the book’s main cast, and Way and Ba play on this vulnerability for maximum drama and a colorful action sequence. Seriously, Gabriel Ba and colorist Dave Stewart bring out the bright lights and surrealism to establish the Sparrow Academy’s abilities and personalities through action not exposition. For everything The Umbrella Academy throws at them, there’s a superior countermeasure. And, of course, pulling the strings in the background like it was revealed in Hotel Oblivion is the android Mom, who raised the Umbrella Academy members while Sir Reginald Hargreaves was doing God knows what. A borderline-fascist android antagonist definitely hits home in 2025 in the era of Open AI taking over everything especially with Mom being the original “trad wife”.

Reading The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #1 is like getting kicked in the teeth after a six year nap. Gerard Way lets Ba’s visuals drive the momentum of the comic while giving everyone a much anticipated Umbrella vs Sparrow Academy throwdown that lives up to the hype. I marvel at the book’s powerful approach to fight choreography as well as the smart color choices from Stewart that help keep the long list of combatants distinct. Plus Way and Gabriel Ba’s prose is still as quirky and rhythmic as ever with the Sparrow Academy playing the role of upstart opening band that really should be the headliner in every way. Plan B is a confident return for The Umbrella Academy series, and I’m excited to see how the story plays out of this summer. It could make for entertaining reading while you wait in various lines to see My Chemical Romance on their “Long Live the Black Parade Tour”.

Story: Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba Art: Gabriel Ba
Colors: Dave Stewart Letters: Nate Piekos
Story: 8.0 Art: 9.0 Overall: 8.5 Recommendation: Buy

Dark Horse Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

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Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s superhero series returns stranger than ever in The Umbrella Academy: Plan B

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Gerard Way, Gabriel Bá, and Dark Horse Comics present the next harrowing story in the Umbrella Academy comic series, The Umbrella Academy: Plan B! This brand-new Umbrella Academy tale picks up directly after the events of Hotel Oblivion and is co-written by Way and Bá, illustrated by Bá, colored by Dave Stewart, and lettered by Nate Piekos. Issue #1 will feature six variant covers illustrated by a star-studded group of artists including Fabio Moon, Claire Roe, Mike del Mundo, Duncan Fegredo, David Aja, and Jill Thompson. The action-packed story of ambition, futility, and violence begins June 2025.

After the mass release of The City’s greatest foes and the chaos that followed in Hotel Oblivion, the Umbrella Academy faces their most fearsome challenge to date–their other brothers and sisters.

Known only as The Sparrows, they share a different connection to Sir Reginald Hargreeves and Mom. No one knows how to hurt each other more than family, and this powerful, ruthless brood will spare no brutality in favor of their sole objective—control and the obedient glare that comes with it.

Meet the rest of the family on June 11, 2025 when The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #1 (of 6) arrives in comic shops. It is now for preorder from your local comic shop for $4.99.

Dark Horse brings The Umbrella Academy and The Witcher to New Comic Book Day

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For Free Comic Book Day, Dark Horse Comics is bringing The Umbrella Academy/The Witcher to comic shops. Free Comic Book Day takes place on May 6, 2023. 

Presenting fan-favorites for FCBD: a squad of superpowered siblings and the infamous monster hunter! 

In The Umbrella Academy: Safe, Hargreeves and Abhijit embark on an interdimensional journey and find a cosmic horror that will have repercussions for our heroes and the universe. This short story is co-written by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, illustrated by Gabriel Bá, colored by Dave Stewart and lettering by Blambot’s Nate Piekos. The cover art for this issue is also provided by Bá and Stewart.

Then, in The Witcher: Frog Kiss, Geralt must uncover why the young women in Novigrad are turning into frogs! This short story is written by Bartosz Sztybor, illustrated by Fabio Violante, colored by Igor Monti and lettering by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.

Be sure to pick up this Free Comic Book Day issue in anticipation for the release of the final season of The Umbrella Academy and Season 3 of The Witcher, both coming to Netflix in 2023.

The Umbrella Academy/The Witcher

Image Celebrates 30 years with an Image! Anthology

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Celebrate the 30th anniversary of Image Comics with the upcoming anthology series Image! kicking off in April. This 12-issue series will treat readers to all-new stories from some of the biggest and best names in comics.

Edited by Image Comics’ Publisher Eric Stephenson and featuring a combination of ongoing serials and standalone short stories, Image! will be the cannot-miss event of the year.

This first issue will showcase a combination of ongoing serials and standalone short stories, including the first chapters of two 12-part stories, “The Blizzard” by Geoff Johns and Andrea Mutti, as well as the opening installments of a trio of three-parters: “Gospel for a New Century” by Wyatt Kennedy and Luana Vecchio, “Hopeless” by Mirka Andolfo, and “Shift” by Kyle Higgins and Daniele Di Nicuolo. Readers will also be treated to an exclusive first look at Declan Shalvey’s upcoming Old Dog series, an original ongoing comic strip by Skottie Young, and more.

The series will also boast the talents of such comics powerhouses as, Brenden Fletcher, W. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo, Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Tim Seeley, Bryan Lee O’Malley, Leslie Hung, Joe Casey, Nathan Fox, Zoe Thorogood, Maria Lovett, Jay Faerber, Matt Fraction, Fábio Moon, Gabriel Bá, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Emma Ríos, James Tynion IV, Kieron Gillen, and many more.

Image! #1 (Diamond Code FEB220047) will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, April 13.

Image! #1

You Look Like Death: Tales from the Umbrella Academy is Collected in a Library Edition and Deluxe Edition

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Klaus comes home in the You Look Like Death: Tales from the Umbrella Academy Library Edition and the You Look Like Death: Tales from the Umbrella Academy Deluxe Edition, the first Umbrella Academy tie-in series! Umbrella Academy creators Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá are joined by Way’s Killjoys cowriter Shaun Simon and artist I.N.J. Culbard, for a supernatural adventure featuring the breakout character from the series!    

When 18-year-old Klaus gets himself kicked out of the Umbrella Academy and his allowance discontinued, he heads to a place where his ghoulish talents will be appreciated––Hollywood. But after a magical high on a stash stolen from a vampire drug lord, Klaus needs help, and doesn’t have his siblings there to save him.

This oversized hardcover collects issues #1-#6 of You Look Like Death, a brand new eight-page Seance story exclusive to the hardcovers, and a foreword by Robert Sheehan, portrayer of Klaus in the hit Netflix show!

The You Look Like Death: Tales from the Umbrella Academy Deluxe Edition includes a slipcase designed by Tony Ong, and an exclusive print by I.N.J. Cubard!

You Look Like Death: Tales from the Umbrella Academy Library Edition & Deluxe Edition will be available everywhere books are sold September 29, 2021. You Look Like Death: Tales from the Umbrella Academy Library Edition will retail for $39.99 and the You Look Like Death: Tales from the Umbrella Academy Deluxe Edition will retail for $79.99.

Also available through Barnes & Noble is an exclusive version of the You Look Like Death: Tales from the Umbrella Academy trade paperback with a unique cover and a bonus lithograph of the issue #1 cover! 

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