The team is despondent following the near apocalypse created by one of their own and the death of their beloved mentor Pogo. So it's a great time f...
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Apr 16, 2011
Ethan
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What an incredible graphic novel! In lieu of checking out Watchmen from the library, I settled with this peculiar-looking compilation of comic books, unaware that it was published by the same company (Dark Horse) that created my original choice. Impressed with the irony of an animated Lincoln Memorial being shot by a marble sculpture of John Booth (something that will become a form of forshadowing), I decided to take the book with me along with three others that I'll discuss at a later date.
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Sep 02, 2010
Sofia
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Background: I loved the first volume of this series, so I was looking forward to reading this one.
Review: Following the near apocalypse and all the crazy stuff that happened on Vol.1, we meet the characters as they try to figure out how to move on, when some of the things that happened left scars that will never be healed. The siblings are scattered and broken, left to their own personal vices and grudges. But when a mysterious organization (of whic More...
Background: I loved the first volume of this series, so I was looking forward to reading this one.
Review: Following the near apocalypse and all the crazy stuff that happened on Vol.1, we meet the characters as they try to figure out how to move on, when some of the things that happened left scars that will never be healed. The siblings are scattered and broken, left to their own personal vices and grudges. But when a mysterious organization (of whic More...
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Aug 14, 2010
Lamski Kikita
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Violentlty beautiful. Gerard knows how to complicate the simple and simplify the most complicated in the most heart-wrenching, soul-splitting, and brain-blowing manner possile. If Vol. 1 left you with some questions, Dallas will quench your thirst with answers way better than anything you imagined. The poetic and ironic dialogue coupled with the bloody colorful scenes are a result of a perfect marriage between the writer and the illustrator. It is hiarious how beautiful the obscene violence in t
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Nov 04, 2010
Orrin
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The Umbrella Academy is a weird thing. I know a lot of people were expecting to hate it before it came out, because of Gerard Way, but then when it hit it became something of a phenomenon. And it's really good, better than it really has any right to be, considering how random and surreal and meta and drop-you-in-the-middle-of-things it is. Considering how close it skirts to trying too hard all the time. Considering lots of things. It's actually pretty great.
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May 12, 2011
Ryan Zimmerman
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Aug 17, 2011
Demolition Lover
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I don't feel like re-writing what I wrote for the first volume, so I'll just copy and paste it:
Where to begin? Umbrella Academy was spectacular. Absolutely magnificent. Gerard Way (the story writer) is supremely talented, whether in his musical works, art, or comic writing. I don't know that much about Gabriel Ba (illustrator), but I'll have to look up more of his stuff, because I love the artwork in the comic. Everything about it was fantastic.
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Where to begin? Umbrella Academy was spectacular. Absolutely magnificent. Gerard Way (the story writer) is supremely talented, whether in his musical works, art, or comic writing. I don't know that much about Gabriel Ba (illustrator), but I'll have to look up more of his stuff, because I love the artwork in the comic. Everything about it was fantastic.
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Jun 12, 2010
Mitchel
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I didn't enjoy this one as much as the first volume. I felt that there wasn't a coherent enough motivation for what some characters did and it was just way too confusing. I enjoy crazy time travel as much as the next person (hello, LOST lover over here) but this just went bat shit crazy.
So Number five is going back in time to prevent his older self (because he is already a 60 year old dude trapped in a 10 year old's body) from not assassinating President Kennedy. Because now he need More...
So Number five is going back in time to prevent his older self (because he is already a 60 year old dude trapped in a 10 year old's body) from not assassinating President Kennedy. Because now he need More...
Dec 28, 2011
Chris
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This is one of those books that makes you so HAPPY that you took a chance on the next volume. Don't get me wrong: I enjoyed the first volume, as the characters are interesting, the art is fantastic, and the storyline/world is quite intriguing. But the arc of the first didn't quite fit together or explore as much as this volume does.
Truly, Mr. Way has fully integrated himself into the graphic novel form. If the first volume was the practice run, this is definitely a fully on sprint. The More...
Truly, Mr. Way has fully integrated himself into the graphic novel form. If the first volume was the practice run, this is definitely a fully on sprint. The More...
Nov 08, 2009
Sam
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Take my review for UMBRELLA ACADEMY: APOCALYPSE SUITE and multiply it times mutherfucking 10!
Hate comics? Doesn't matter. Never read comics? Doesn't matter. You'll love this shit.
This trade changes the rules of continuity, logic and common sense associated with mainstream comics today. Time-traveling abounds, making your head spin when you try to tie all of the loose ends back together.
At this point, I'm calling anyone who ever told me that LOST was the best w More...
Hate comics? Doesn't matter. Never read comics? Doesn't matter. You'll love this shit.
This trade changes the rules of continuity, logic and common sense associated with mainstream comics today. Time-traveling abounds, making your head spin when you try to tie all of the loose ends back together.
At this point, I'm calling anyone who ever told me that LOST was the best w More...
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Sep 06, 2010
Pragmatic
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what happened to me with the first UA book happened again with this one. by that, i mean i sat down to read it casually but could not put it down, so i wound up spending the next hour and a half reading it from cover-to-cover, all in one sitting!
Gerard Way & Gabriel Ba really outdid themselves on this one, and i hope they continue the series while continuing that trend!
everybody needs to read The Umbrella Academy. it has a lot of re-read value because it leaves you wonder More...
Gerard Way & Gabriel Ba really outdid themselves on this one, and i hope they continue the series while continuing that trend!
everybody needs to read The Umbrella Academy. it has a lot of re-read value because it leaves you wonder More...
Jul 04, 2011
an extremely nutty, retro futuristic, steam punk but not quite, super heroic dissfunctional family drama thriller, a driller perhaps, or dramller. An ability to read between the lines is a great skill to have with regard to this book, theres so much more there than could be contained in these relatively slender pages, it is more than the sum of its bizarre and confusing parts, so much is told in a glance between characters, and this great acting elevates the art beyond its boisterous and deliber
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Aug 14, 2010
TJ
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It got a little confusing when they started time-traveling and fighting future versions of themselves, etc BUT I still really like this series. The art style of Gabriel Ba fits magnificently with the tone of Way's writing. The best thing I could write to share about this book was already written by Gerard Way himself:
"We traveled through time, we dressed up a chimp like Marilyn Monroe, we introduced two sugar-loving psychopaths and proceeded to kill them. We went from Vietnam More...
"We traveled through time, we dressed up a chimp like Marilyn Monroe, we introduced two sugar-loving psychopaths and proceeded to kill them. We went from Vietnam More...
Oct 31, 2009
Rick
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Way and Bá return to their surreal world of powers, time travel paradoxes, and self-aware chimpanzees. Following the events of the Harvey and Eisner award-winning Apocalypse Suite, the lives of the Umbrella Academy family lay ruins as they attempt to regroup. Creatively, both the narrative and the art falter in the opening sequences, but as the group delves into the mystery of their time traveling brother Number Five, the duo crafts an unforgettable and absurd time travel adventure centering on
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Dec 25, 2010
Adhitia
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Keren!! Plot twist nya keren!! Sukses bikin gw kaget2 hehehe :D
Gw akui, gw sedikit bingung saat baca komik ini. Berbeda dengan Apocalypse Suite yang cukup mudah dicerna, Dallas sangat membingungan untuk dicerna. Karena storyline nya yg sangat unexpected & rumit bakal bikin kita bingung. But wait, jangan males, baca sampe abis dulu. Finish 'till the last then you gonna get the treasure :D :D :D
Gw salut sama Gerard Way yang bisa bikin plot sekeren ini. Otaknya cerdas banget! Be More...
Gw akui, gw sedikit bingung saat baca komik ini. Berbeda dengan Apocalypse Suite yang cukup mudah dicerna, Dallas sangat membingungan untuk dicerna. Karena storyline nya yg sangat unexpected & rumit bakal bikin kita bingung. But wait, jangan males, baca sampe abis dulu. Finish 'till the last then you gonna get the treasure :D :D :D
Gw salut sama Gerard Way yang bisa bikin plot sekeren ini. Otaknya cerdas banget! Be More...
Jan 06, 2011
Jean-Pierre
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Like the Goon, Umbrella Academy nearly defies comparison and clear description. Similarities to Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol are apparent to myself, and even Gerard Way has cited Challengers of the Unknown as an influence; but it would not be fair to say that the series is too much like them. It definitely stands on its own. The overall structure really keeps the series compelling. When we first meet these characters, they already have a few decades of backstory waiting to be revealed. One
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May 24, 2010
P.Sannie
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I thought the artwork was really fantastic, but the story was a little bit confusing. Maybe because I was tired when I read it? I don't know. But the time-traveling aspect perhaps was what perplexed me, though I thought it was really interesting how Gerard Way tied it into real history. I always love when fiction is tied into real life events and it works.
I think The Umbrella Academy is definitely a series that can be re-read because of the fact that there are a lot of connection More...
I think The Umbrella Academy is definitely a series that can be re-read because of the fact that there are a lot of connection More...
Nov 11, 2011
Jeff
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While the second collected volume of The Umbrella Academy is not quite as good as the predecessor, it's still a fun ride featuring lots of great color artwork by the amazing Gabriel Ba, who is one of the handful of greatest visual talents working in comics today. Gerard Way's story is entertaining, if a little obvious in some of the shortcuts that it takes in order to get the convoluted plot to work at all. But if you're in the mood for some outrageous superhero pastiche featuring first-rate g
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Jun 21, 2011
Samantha
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I was excited to read The Umbrella Academy as soon as I found out my bf had copies of it. MCR is one of my favorite bands so I jumped in thinking that I would love Gerard's comic as well. Not so much. It is a "different" concept but not something that grabbed my attention. I found no connection with any characters and the story line was a tad boring. It only took less then an hr at work to read so I can't complain to much. The major disappointment was me probably going into reading thi
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Oct 03, 2009
Caroline
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I reread the first volume just before reading this one, and they read together really nicely. I love the imagination and the characters, and there's not another comic out there that looks like this.
I had a few problems with the pacing in both books -- the first one runs out of room and crams too much into the last chapter; this one is a little cluttered and unfocused in the middle, but ends well. Great extras in the trades -- it's well worth the selling price to get this story in s More...
I had a few problems with the pacing in both books -- the first one runs out of room and crams too much into the last chapter; this one is a little cluttered and unfocused in the middle, but ends well. Great extras in the trades -- it's well worth the selling price to get this story in s More...
Mar 15, 2010
Jodi
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When we last left The Umbrella Academy the gang were saving the world from their sister, The White Violin, run amok. Now the Emo Family Robinson is back in The Umbrella Academy: Dallas trying to recover from the fallout of their shattered family and saving the world, again. Damn world, why can’t it just stay saved? I hope the world continues to be in constant peril because I want more and more and more of the Emo Family Robinson.
This volume finds the family in shambles (again) Kraken’s More...
This volume finds the family in shambles (again) Kraken’s More...
Nov 17, 2011
Erin Ashley
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I am not a huge comic book fan, I never have been, but I couldn't pass up the chance to read The Umbrella Academy when I knew that Gerard Way was the mastermind behind it.
I don't remember what I wrote for the first book or if I have even reviewed that book yet, but this one is wonderful in so many ways. It is twisted, crafted in such a clever and eerie way that makes you want to read on. I have to admit, I don't understand some parts of it, but what I didn't understand made me want to More...
I don't remember what I wrote for the first book or if I have even reviewed that book yet, but this one is wonderful in so many ways. It is twisted, crafted in such a clever and eerie way that makes you want to read on. I have to admit, I don't understand some parts of it, but what I didn't understand made me want to More...
Jun 06, 2010
Jake
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While I really enjoyed the first Umbrella Academy Trade, this one left me cold. The first volume was certainly weird and bordernline nonsensical, but clearly established bonds of family held everything together. This volume isn't any stranger than the first, and the scenarios are still wonderfully creepy/cool/corny, but emotionally, this volume is a dud. It's hard to care about any of the goings on. I still like the characters and world that Way established, and Ba's art is gorgeous, but I can't
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Nov 04, 2009
Catherine
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I thought this built on the first one perfectly. It was just as confusing (I'll have to read it again ^^; ) as the first, but hell, that's how comics should be. I found I really started to get to know the characters well in this one too. Everyone was being introduced and stuff in the first, but in this one you really get a sense of who's who and can properly choose favourites, or whatever (for the record, I love Seance and Number 5, heh).
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Oct 09, 2009
Dan
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In this, the second Umbrella Academy collection, Spaceman has eaten himself into obesity, Kraken has gotten a bit more obsessive, White Violin is in the hospital and paralzyed since the previous volume, and Number Five, after some shenanigans at the dog track, goes back in time to prevent himself from preventing the Kennedy assassination...
The Umbrella Academy is a fun read, like Tim Burton doing the X-Men. Where else would you see a character travelling back in time to prevent his More...
The Umbrella Academy is a fun read, like Tim Burton doing the X-Men. Where else would you see a character travelling back in time to prevent his More...
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Apr 13, 2010
Nicolas
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C'est quand même sacrément bizarre, ces histoires de l'umbrella academy. J'aurais d'ailleurs même tendance à utiliser le terme "nawak" pour parler de ce qui mélange allègrement des super-héros louches (et bien dérangés), l'assassinat de Kenedy, la guerre du vietnam, des tueurs shootés au sucre, et même (et sa première apparition vaut le détour) un poisson rouge intelligent !
Cela dit, c'est aaassez jubilatoire de voir cette bande de bras cassés sauver le monde au moins deux fois.
Cela dit, c'est aaassez jubilatoire de voir cette bande de bras cassés sauver le monde au moins deux fois.
Aug 19, 2011
Christen
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My favorite of the two volumes! Ba's artwork is love. The plot in Dallas feels more cohesive and focused, while still telling the different stories of each of the characters. The relationships between the siblings are still fraught with tension and dysfunction, which just ratchets up the action as they choose to work along side one another, or not. Way's grim sense of humor adds a nice touch to the dialogue.
Jan 02, 2010
Izlinda
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I was lucky Borders had this volume also, and that I had time to read it, too. This volume involved more space/time stuff, and a lot about 00.05's past/present/future, what have you. I definitely liked this volume better than the debut. The use of Rumor was intriguing and a definite twist. I hope future volumes speak about what happened to 00.06, though. And how on Earth the kids have a mechanical mother.
Dec 27, 2009
Mollymillions
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Totally enjoyable! My only real complaint is that I had to stop and think back on the first trade paperback to get everything straight in my head before I could really digest this story. My niggling complaint is that I didn't get enough time with the characters this time around. They're all very complex and have interesting motivations, but this volume was all about plot. Still, everything else was great.
Oct 13, 2010
William Thomas
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a good, very original and solid lineup as far as the cast of heroes is concerned. the surrealism of the villains however put me off as this being another cheap Scud knockoff. i got past that feeling and read the book for what it was- a thoroughly engaging if somewhat fractured story about misfit superbeings with immense power, original powers (such as rumor who makes thigns happen with a single word or sentence, and seance who inhabits other people bodies and other objects). i hated the time tra
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Oct 22, 2011
Ubalstecha
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This is an excellent Umbrella Academy, showing us how the group us the after effects of the first volume, while exploring the relationships between the characters now that they are all adults. There is also a wonderful weaving of the JFK assassination into the story. Characters are well drawn, complex, interesting and both likeable and detestable at the same time.
