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The Penguin, Andor, and The Last of Us rack up over a dozen 2025 Emmy Nominations each

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Emmy Awards 2025

The 2025 Emmy Nominations were announced today and it was a good year for “geek” shows with The Penguin, Andor, and The Last of Us each received double digit nominations.

Severance received the most nominations with 27 total nominations. The Penguin had the second most with 24 nominations. The Last of Us received 16 nominations and Andor received 14 nominations.

Also nominated, some with multiple nominations are: Dune: Prophecy, The Boys, Agatha All Along, House Of The Dragon, Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire, The Acolyte, Star Trek: Section 31, The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power, The Umbrella Academy, Doctor Who, Secret Level, What If…?, Invincible, and Arcane.

Check out the list of nominations below and we’ve highlighted our relevant shows below.

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

Purchase: Zeus Comics – Third Eye Comics – Golden Apple Comics – Kindle

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

Pre-Order: Third Eye Comics – Golden Apple Comics – Kindle

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.

Around the Tubes

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It’s new comic book day! What are you all excited for? What do you plan on getting? Sound off in the comments below. While you wait for shops to open, here’s some comic news from around the web to start the day.

The Beat – A tale of two communities: Fanatics Fest and FlameCon 2024 – Who has been to each and what did you think?

NY Times – Disney Backs Down From Effort to Use Disney+ Agreement to Block Lawsuit – Good. This was an idiotic decision to start and screams lawyers calling the shots with no one using common sense.

Kotaku – Batman: Arkham Shadow Looks Like The Batman Games You Love In First-Person – Looks pretty cool.

The Mary Sue – ‘The Umbrella Academy’ may have ended on a low note, but let’s talk about the highlights – What did you all think?

Around the Tubes

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It’s one of two new comic book days! What are you all excited for? What do you plan on getting? Sound off in the comments below! While you think about that, here’s some comic news from around the web to start the day.

Cleveland Jewish News – Look, up in the sky – a statue of Superman on the way – Very cool!

Secret Los Angeles – Enter Pop Culture Heaven At Kirbyvision: A Tribute To Jack Kirby At Corey Helford Gallery – We want to go!

The Beat – Weekly Shonen Jump’s Editor-in-Chief Hiroyuki Nakano steps down – Huh.

The Mary Sue – McDonald’s Is Cooking Up Something Malevolent With ‘Jujutsu Kaisen’ – Well ok then.

The Mary Sue – ‘The Umbrella Academy’ Showrunner Accused of Sexism and Fostering a Toxic Workplace – A shame.

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

Bang! with Idris Elba and Mind MGMT get adaptations as Dark Horse and Netflix extend their partnership

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Netflix and Dark Horse Entertainment have extended their first look deal. Under this multi-year deal, Dark Horse will continue to give Netflix a first look at its IP for both film and TV. 

Netflix and Dark Horse recently collaborated on the third season of The Umbrella Academy, which in its first four weeks reached the Netflix Global Top 10 in TV in 91 countries with 283.55M hours viewed (as of July 17, 2022) 

New projects in active development under the Dark Horse Entertainment banner include:

  • Bang! starring Idris Elba and directed by David Leitch 
    • Based on the comic series by Matt Kindt and Wilfredo Torres, the feature film adaptation of this stylish spy thriller will be written by Kindt and Zak Olkewicz
    • Producers: Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg for Dark Horse, David Leitch and Kelly McCormick for 87 North, and Idris Elba
    • When a terrorist cult sets out to start the apocalypse with a series of novels meant to brainwash their readers, the world’s most celebrated spy is sent to track down and kill the author responsible.
  • Mind MGMT with Curtis Gwinn set to Executive Produce this series adaptation of the comic book series by Matt Kindt
    • A young woman stumbles onto the top-secret Mind Management program. Her ensuing journey involves weaponized psychics, hypnotic advertising, talking dolphins, and seemingly immortal pursuers, as she attempts to find the man who was MIND MGMT’s greatest success – and its most devastating failure. But in a world where people can rewrite reality itself, can she trust anything she sees?
    • Executive Producers: Curtis Gwinn, and Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg for Dark Horse
  • Next up for Dark Horse is the 8 episode series Grendel, based on the classic comic by Matt Wagner. Andrew Dabb created the series, which is in post-production.

Previous Dark Horse Entertainment releases include the Netflix film Polar, starring Mads Mikkelsen, the Netflix animated series Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles, returning later this year with Season 2, and the animated film Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness, which recently spent four weeks on the Netflix TV (English) Top 10. 

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