Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Publication Date: September 17, 2019
Source: Borrowed from the Library
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Goodreads Synopsis:
With a new Netflix series, the best-selling graphic novels return—with the original creators!Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance, Doom Patrol) and Gabriel Bá (Two Brothers, Casanova) have earned awards and accolades on their separate projects, and finally return to their breakout 2007 hit, for the latest chapter in the bizarre lives of their former teen superhero team.Faced with an increasing number of lunatics with superpowers eager to fight his own wunderkind brood, Sir Reginald Hargreeves developed the ultimate solution ...Now, just a few years after Hargreeves's death, his Umbrella Academy is scattered. Number Five is a hired gun, Kraken is stalking big game, Rumor is dealing with the wreckage of her marriage, an out-of-shape Spaceboy runs around the streets of Tokyo, Vanya continues her physical therapy after being shot in the head--and no one wants to even talk about what Séance is up to ...The award-winning and best-selling superhero series returns, stranger than ever—And their past is coming back to hunt them
Review:
I tried... I really did. I read through all three volumes, and I feel like I probably gave the other two more stars than they really deserved thinking that the ending would pull it all together in a beautiful way. The ending did NOT do that. It was just as disjoined and then had the audacity to leave you on a cliffhanger. I don't need a cliffhanger on the last book, the whole series felt like a cliffhanger - you are always hoping to turn the page and have an ahhhh moment. Sadly that moment never comes. I finished this series with far more questions than answers, confused about what I had just put myself through.
This installment followed all of the Umbrella Academy team although they are a bit separated. They are trying to ensure that all the baddies from their past don't do more damage. Previously their father had sent them all to another dimension where he had built a hotel for them called Hotel Oblivion. You know... because nothing bad can happen when you put all the baddies in one place. (can you hear my eyeroll?). The hotel was a neat concept but overall very cliché.
The only reason I even finished it was because the siblings started working together and I had higher hopes for some resolution. Overall the book was weird which has something going for it, but the story was too all over the place for my liking and there wasn't enough reason to care for the characters as they progressed.
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