A dysfunctional family of superheroes with bizarre powers, the seven members of The Umbrella Academy spent their childhoods fighting evil and honing their extraordinary gifts under the tutelage of their guardian and mentor, Dr. Reginald Hargreeves. Here is one story from their past where they learned a powerful lesson and fought a mysterious murderer. Conceived and written by Gerard Way (of My Chemical Romance), The Umbrella Academy features interior art by Gabriel Ba (Casanova) and Dave Stewart (Hellboy) and covers by multiple Eisner Award-winning artist James Jean (Fables). The Umbrella Academy debuts with a twelve-page story set before the start of the ongoing series.

Once, the Umbrella Academy was unstoppable. Under the tutelage of their guardian and mentor, Dr. Reginald Hargreeves, its members spent their childhoods fighting evil and honing their extraordinary gifts. Until something went terribly wrong. Now, nine years later, the estranged members of the Umbrella Academy are reunited by the death of the only parent they've ever known and the rise of a new and terrible threat. Will they be able to overcome their history for long enough to save the world-one more time? Conceived and written by Gerard Way, lead singer of My Chemical Romance, Umbrella Academy features interior art by Eisner Award-nominated artist Gabriel Bá (De:Tales), colors by Eisner Award-winning colorist Dave Stewart, and covers by multiple-Eisner Award-winning painter James Jean (Fables). From writer Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance!

Nine years after parting ways, the estranged members of the Umbrella Academy have gathered for the funeral of their guardian and mentor. But their reunion is far from pleasant, as old wounds reopen, murderous mimes embark on a crime spree, and one of the siblings is seduced away by a mysterious villain . . . Conceived and written by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance, Umbrella Academy features interior art by Eisner Award-nominated artist Gabriel Bá (De:TALES), colors by Eisner Award-winning colorist Dave Stewart, and covers by multiple Eisner Award-winning painter James Jean (Fables). \* Conceived and written by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance!

The reunited Umbrella Academy launches into action to combat a robot crime spree and investigate a string of murdered violinists, all while trying to prevent the apocalypse. Meanwhile, the team's missing membertheir powerless sisterslips further through the cracks, and into the very heart of a plot to destroy the world. Conceived and written by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance, \The Umbrella Academy\ features interior art by Eisner Award-winning artist Gabriel Bá (\De:Tales\), colors by Eisner Award-winning colorist Dave Stewart, and covers by multiple Eisner Award-winning painter James Jean (\Fables\). Cover by Eisner Award-winning painter James Jean. Artwork by Gabriel Bá, featured on \Entertainment Weekly\'s Top 100 list.

"While the Umbrella Academy reconnects over the death of their father, a displaced sibling finds her next fix in music. The influence of music transforms the lost member of the team; the family that rejected her will realize just how profoundly they underestimated their powerless sister. Conceived and written by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance, \The Umbrella Academy\ features interior art by Eisner Award-winning artist Gabriel Bá (\De:Tales\), colors by Eisner Award-winning colorist Dave Stewart, and covers by multiple Eisner Award-winning painter James Jean (\Fables\). Interior art by Eisner winner Gabriel Bá, featured as one of \Entertainment Weekly\'s Top 100 cartoonists. ""An ultraviolet psychedelic sherbet bomb of wit and ideas. The superheroes of the 21st century are here at last.""Grant Morrison"

After an unexpected visitor trashes the The Umbrella Academy mansion, 00.05 uncovers Hargreeves' monocle and perhaps the key to saving the world! Conceived and written by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance, The Umbrella Academy features interior art by Eisner Award-nominated artist Gabriel Bá ( colors by Eisner Award-winning colorist Dave Stewart, and covers by multiple-Eisner Award-winning painter James Jean (Fables). \ Covers by Eisner Award-winning painter James Jean. \ Interior art by Eisner nominee Gabriel Bá, recently featured on Entertainment Weekly's Top 100 list. \* "An ultraviolet psychedelic sherbet bomb of wit and ideas. The superheroes of the 21st century are here at last . . . " -Grant Morrison

"Welcome to the jaw-dropping, action-packed, dramatic conclusion to \The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite\. As the world lingers on the brink of complete annihilation, this dysfunctional fighting team must put their issues aside as they attempt to save planet Earth. Conceived and written by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance, \The Umbrella Academy\ features interior art by Eisner Award-winning artist Gabriel Bá (\De:Tales\), colors by Eisner Award-winning colorist Dave Stewart, and covers by multiple Eisner Award-winning painter James Jean (\Fables\). ""\The Umbrella Academy\ knocked my socks off. I can't really recall the last time I picked up a book and was so unbelievably surprised at how good it actually was, but it happened here.""AintItCool.com ""An ultraviolet psychedelic sherbert bomb of wit and ideas. The superheroes of the 21st century are here at last.""Grant Morrison "

Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá return with a story as American as semiautomatic weapons. The Umbrella Academy has saved the world, but the house they were raised in is destroyed. One member is bedridden, the side of her head held together with tape; and another has lost her voice, the source of her power. Now that they've fulfilled their destiny, does the Umbrella Academy have any future at all? The Umbrella Academy returns for a second six-issue series—Dallas, where we put the term—hero—to the test. \* The acclaimed series from Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá returns! 2008 Eisner Award winner—Best Limited Series!

As Clare Boothe Luce once said, "No good deed goes unpunished." The Séance, ego bloated from having saved the world a few months ago, finds himself strapped in for a most unpleasant ride while the team runs in four different directions—because only four of the seven Umbrella Brats are currently mobile. Clare Boothe Luce, Republican congresswoman, ambassador, and playwright, was the daughter of unmarried violinist and deserter Wm. Franklin Boothe. (The Umbrella Academy does not approve of the term "illegitimate child." Every child is legitimate; it's some parents we find to be lacking.) Through her varied career, she took on communism, sexism, and Nazism. When her friend, actress and legendary suicide Dorothy Hale, threw herself from the sixteenth floor of New York City's Hampshire House, Luce compelled art goddess Frida Kahlo to paint the shocking El Suicidio de Dorothy Hale. In 1953, President Eisenhower named Luce ambassador to Italy. When she met Pope Pius XII, Luce, ignoring America's own ethic about separation of church and state, explained the Church's moral requirement to be tougher on communism. Pope Pius replied, "You know, Mrs. Ambassador, I am a Catholic, too." Seven years later, the United States would elect its first Catholic president.

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