The Umbrella Academy: Dallas #4

Umbrella Academy: Single Issues #10

by Gerard Way, Gabriel Bá (Artist)

Number Five and The Rumor have accepted a terrible mission, and after enduring torture and a brush with nuclear Armageddon, the rest of the surviving Umbrella Academy have to put aside their infighting to try to find their brother and sister, racing through history to do so. The Eisner and Harvey Award-winning series kicks into high gear as Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá head into taboo territory in the surreal political thriller Dallas. 2008 Eisner Award winner-Best Limited Series, Best Colorist, and Best Cover Artist! 2008 Harvey Award winner-Best New Series! "Way, Bá, Stewart, and Piekos have achieved something rare in comics."-IndiePulp.com "Gerard Way is an innovative, vibrant new writer of comics who has created an exciting, original world. The Umbrella Academy feels like serialized 1930s pulp fiction, even as it reads like sci-fi." -PinkRaygun.com

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics, Science Fiction, Comics Manga, Fantasy

24 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 6, 2015

About the author

Gerard Arthur Way (born April 9, 1977) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and comic book writer who served as frontman, lead vocalist, and co-founder of the band My Chemical Romance from the time of its formation in 2001 until its breakup in 2013. He is the author of the Eisner Award-winning comic book series The Umbrella Academy (now a Netflix original series) and The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys. In January 2014, he announced via Twitter that he and artist Gabriel Ba will begin work on Umbrella Academy Volumes 3 & 4 in late 2014/early 2015. His debut solo album Hesitant Alien was released on September 30, 2014. Way lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife Lindsey (bassist of Mindless Self Indulgence) and their daughter, Bandit.

Reviews

[Steph · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best cliffhanger.

[Raine McLeod · Rating 4 out of 5]

These books are like a mushroom trip.

[Cybernex007 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Warning! Excessive use of electric shocks to knock out a man with a gorilla body may cause vivid dark dreams. Especially when you are Luther and your dream is a 50s hellscape coming home to Allison and your two ape like children. But of course once you see that Klaus is for dinner…the dream starts to fade a way a bit. What I love most about this dream sequence is that it ends with an explosion, and Reginald standing there scolding Luther for even thinking things would turn out okay. Geez, I love how much this guy haunts the narrative. As Luther wakes up in the apartment he finds that he is unable to move and needs to reset his body, but with hazel and cha-cha showing back up with the nuclear football and setting it off…I don’t believe he will get much of a chance. Luckily Agnes is there to take pity on Klaus and fulfill his final request…taking off those shoes he wouldn’t want to be caught in. Which is perfect, as Klaus came back he was able to use his powers to possess Cha-Cha and kill Hazel then turn the gun on himself.

Klaus: “How was that?! MAN enough for you, cowboy?”

Hqhahaha, I love Klaus just screaming out into the void for taking care of that so brutally. Turns out Klaus also took the chance to disarm the nuclear detonator. So with Klaus alive Hazel and Cha-Cha dead, and the nuclear football disarmed…seems Klaus next stop is to get back to the house ASAP. Kraken will have to meet them back there by subway, lol, televator is still broken. Oh also, turns out Luther found Klaus because of a nano-tracer he slipped into his bottle…fourteen years ago, lol.

We now jump back over to the ever mysterious Perseus building as the young CEO who has spent thousands on trips to India, mysterious R&D, and rebuilding downtown has incurred quite a cost that the board is not happy about. Luckily for the CEO they really don’t have a say in it anymore. He bought the big fish on the board out of their stock using a loophole on their contract to provide them zero notification should a buyout take place. So while we still have no idea what this guy is doing, he is prom-drunk with power and has no one holding him back.

We now jump over to the office at the end of time for the big meeting on mission 02-64-XOB targeting JFK, and more importantly making sure that old man Agent Five is stopped from going rouge and killing all of the agents meant to kill JFK. That’s why they have brought in their expert: number five. Five knows for certain that everyone here is going to die, but he has a plan for dealing with himself and for some reason he is going to need the surgeons. Hmmmm.

Back at the umbrella academy Spaceboy and kraken are currently watching Klaus dig up Pogo’s grave. Hilariously when spaceboy asks what happens after death, Klaus tells him there is nothing. I guess the conversation with that dickhead cowboy would be a bit too much, lol. But by this time Klaus is done digging, only to reveal pogo isn’t there at all…but one of the time agents! After talking to the guy’s spirit Klaus found out that they need to head back to Dallas, 1963 as that is where five is heading to kill JFK. And they are going to get there the same way five got here…using this guy’s body as a Time Machine. So as this motley crew teleports away to the past, Klaus once again assures them that there is nothing to worry about. Klaus was able to disarm the detonator earlier with the help of a Scandinavian anarchist who incidentally blew himself up in 1918, lol. Well as this issue comes to an end Klaus may never realize that he should probably drop that contact. As the police show up at that shady apartment to find Agnes waiting for them…they also find the detonator…right as it ticks down to 1 and the entire world goes POP at the end of this issue. HAHAHA, I think we may need to fix that.

[Ronika · Rating 3 out of 5]

i was just rewatching some of my favorite scenes from tua series after i finished season 4. (which was truly disappointing... don't let me start -) and in that scene when five runs out of that briefcases room after he throws a bomb(in season 1); there was some masks hanging on the wall that was the exact same ones in the comics. i just noticed it after i read the comics so i thought it was so surprising!

[bels · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm impressed how the adaption can develop Hazel and Cha Cha. I still see the comic appeal with both assassins are prone to sweets. One of the quirk that I didn't find disappointing at all. I'm also glad that with both Cha Chas, but I gotta say I lean on more in the adaptation. Maybe because she's black woman.

[Paulina ෂ · Rating 2 out of 5]

[2,5]
Ahora sí que es entretenido ver qué tanto cambia la versión de Netflix con esta versión original. El hecho de cómo se fueron dando las cosas sí que es completamente diferente. Quedo con la curiosidad de saber cómo termina esta saga .

[jisung ☆ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay, aquí solo Klaus, Diego y Luther viajan a Dallas y no es por accidente... weird.
Yo soy fiel defender que la segunda temporada de TUA es la mejor, pero no pensé que era tan diferente de los comics

[Alice · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm sad I didn't get to see Hazel and Cha-Cha's face (who are completely different from the TV show let me tell you) although this makes them ever more creepy.

[fer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Si bueno y Vanya?

[Mar Bartolomé Cartasso · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5⭐

vengo diciendo que se prendió hace 5 tomos pero ahora si mamá ahora si

[Mica ☆☆☆ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh nvm they DID travel back in time

[clau · Rating 2 out of 5]

2,75.

[Lea ⋆｡ ﾟ☁︎ · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 / 5 ✮⋆˙

❝ Televator's broken ❞

Uh... okay ! Where's Vanya ? Why are we traveling in time just for the president ? I need context 😭