“Yesterday’s” Comic> The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite #1

“We brought a souvenir back from Paris.”

The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite #1

Dark Horse Comics (October, 2007)

“The Day The Eiffel Tower Went Berzerk”

WRITER: Gerald Way

ARTIST: Gabriel Bá

COLORIST: Dave Stewart

LETTERING: Blambot

EDITOR: Scott Allie

ASSISTANT EDITORS: Rachael Edidin & Siera Hann

After a wrestler defeats a space squid in the ring, a lot of women go through immaculate conceptions. Doctor Hargrave, a secret space alien whose alter ego is a rich businessman, adopts the seven he’s able to find and forms The Umbrella Academy to use their powers to defend the Earth. Except for the one who projects himself into the future and the girl with no powers. The kids’ debut is stopping Zombie Cyborg Gustave Eiffel from using the Eiffel Tower to attack Paris. They save the city but the Tower, actually a rocket goes off into space. Decades later, the former “Number One” of the super kids is now a cyborg astronaut going by Spaceboy, and the powerless girl is a violinist for revenge who wrote a tell-all book about her family. Something is happening. Hargrave is dead, and the time traveling kid is back to bring the team back together.

This is my first exposure to this series and…it is totally not for me. This is the Action Age (anyone remember that online comic project?) gone too far. The problem is it looks like it’s weird just to be weird. That’s not a bad thing. The problem is that it’s so far removed from my tastes that I can’t honestly judge it. Quality wise the art matches the story, but I’m a story reviewer and this story is just so far all over the place that I find it hard to judge it. I can’t say it’s bad, it’s just not for me in any form.

Not much of a review (not even bothering putting this one on Neon Ichiban, where I read it) but I can’t get into it, and I probably wouldn’t like the show if if it’s anywhere close to this bizarre. I wouldn’t bother reviewing it at all if time wasn’t my enemy this week.  I also think this is it for now from my Neon Ichiban library. Anything else either didn’t interest me or I’ve already reviewed in a different format. We’ll have to see what takes over Tuesday’s comic reviews next week as a source.