Dark Horse comics has announced that the second installment of The Umbrella Academy will be out sometime in November (no official name has been given yet).
Scott Allie, editor, says, “Series 2, which we’re only calling series 2 right now but we’ll probably tell you the real title in San Diego [Comic Con], will debut in November.”
Fear not TUA fans you won’t have to wait until November for something new. There will be a MINI TUA comic coming exclusively to MySpace. It will be about Kracken and Vanya being in a punk band. I am very interested to see how that one plays out LOL.
For more info on this developing situation you can check out TheUmbrellaAcademy.com
Tips? Info? Photos?
EMAIL US!
By Brian Heater
For The Daily Cross Hatch
Born in part from designs created while on tour with his platinum selling rock outfit, My Chemical Romance, Gerard Way’s Umbrella Academy team formed the basis of one of comics’ most welcome surprises last year. Way’s debut miniseries is alternately ominous, funny, and surprising, all while reflecting a deep appreciation for and knowledge of its roots, paying quiet homage to everyone from Jack Kirby to Grant Morrison
Continue reading →
By Brian Heater
For The Daily Cross Hatch
You’d be forgiven for initially writing off Umbrella Academy as something of a vanity project. After all, as the comics medium continues to prove itself an ample source of fodder for nearly every aspect of popular culture, from popcorn movies to fine art to literature, celebrities ranging from Michael Chabon to Jenna Jameson have begun happily attaching themselves to the form’s perpetual balancing act between the worlds of high and low art, with mixed amounts of success and legitimacy.
For those whose knowledge of Gerard Way begins and ends with the last half-dozen years spent as the frontman of the wildly successful pop-punk outfit, My Chemical Romance, the concept of the singer penning a mini-series for Dark Horse seems perhaps a little more than a method of killing time between the release of records. Such assumptions couldn’t be further from the truth, however. As the artist himself will readily attest, comics are Way’s first love. Years before the birth of MCR, he graduated from Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts in 1999, with BFA in comics studies, working his way up to an internship with DC Comics.
Continue reading →
By Hugh Hart
While Josh Schwartz (Gossip Girl) spends his summer writing his X-Men movie spinoff about an academy of superpowered teenagers with attitude, Brazilian artist Gabriel Ba and writer-musician Gerard Way are preparing for a San Diego Comic-Con appearance in July to promote their own comic book about an academy of superpowered teeneagers with attitude.
Is there a movie in the works? Not yet. But in nine weeks, Dark Horse Comics will publish The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite. The paperback collection of six previously published comic books follows the snarky escapades of Spaceboy, the Rumor, the Kraken, the White Violin and the Horror. The squabbling sibs were adopted by millionaire inventor/space alien Reginald Hargreeves as babies. Years later, when dad dies, the gifted kids unite despite their differences to take on a bizarre array of creatures hell-bent on world destruction.
The trade paperback compilation will also feature bonus short stories and sketches by Ba, cover artist James Jean and Way, who this week wraps up a two-year tour with his band My Chemical Romance.
———-
Comment below by Brandi
People you might not like it when I say this, but I am awesomely excited that the X-Men Movies didn’t end! I was really destrought when I watched the last of the previous three. I can’t WAIT until the new one comes out! Although, I am worried that there is a different writer!
And as far as TUA becoming a movie, well now that would just rock harder than anything I could possibly imagine!
Gerard Way talks to Emmit Furey of CBR News about The Umbrella Academy Apocalypse Suite Series 1 and more.
CLICK HERE to read entire article, which is a good one I might add.
I try to stay informed about things in MCR’s world, as well as their side projects. So imagine my surprise when I found out about two random, deemed “custom” action figures. In my searching tonight, I found a photo gallery on toycutter.com. In it were several photos of the two Umbrella Academy Action Figures pictured above. It was only these two and they were in different poses in the other photos.
This is the first I have heard of there being action figures. Am I behind or is this something coming soon? Will there be a whole set for the whole Umbrella Academy gang? If you know the answers to these questions, email us HERE!
And thanks for reading our humble little site! 
MYSPACE DARK HORSE PRESENTS VOLUME 1
By Joss Whedon, Gerard Way, Mike Mignola, Steve Niles, Gilbert Hernandez, Ron Marz, John Arcudi, Bob Fingerman, Fillbach Bros, Gabriel Ba, Fabio Moon, Guy Davis and Herb Trimpe.
The first six issues of MySpace Dark Horse Presents includes Joss Whedon’s complete rock’n'roll saga Sugarshock!, a fun-filled story about a quirky girl named Dandelion, and her love of music (and hatred of Vikings); Mike Mignola’s haunting holiday tale, lushly illustrated by Guy Davis, “The Christmas Spirit”; a lost Umbrella Academy chapter written by Gerard Way about our favorite curmudgeon, The Kraken; and a four-part story dedicated to Eric Powell’s The Goon. This volume also includes a wide range of established comics talent, and stories from newcomers who saw their professional debut in MySpace Dark Horse Presents.
176 pages, $19.95, in stores on Sept. 17!
Credit: Comixtreme.com
Tips? Questions?
EMAIL US!
The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite has been nominated for a 2008 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award. It is nominated in the Best Limited Series Category. This is a huge acknowledgement for the series in the comics world.
Winners will be announced on Friday evening, July 25th at the awards ceremony held during Comic-Con International.
We will bring you all the info right here on My Chemical Freak!
Review & Photos by: Nilina Campbell
For Localcut.com
On the MAX ride from the Zoo to Things From Another World comic book store (where My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way would be signing his own graphic offering, The Umbrella Academy), I squealed to my travel companion (and LC podcaster) Arya Imig about all about the things we might expect. What length will Mr. Way’s hair be!?!?! Will he have decided to go back to bleach blond?!?! What will his nose look like in person?!?! How much more beautiful will he be than in photos and My Chemical Romance’s ever-more-epic music videos?!!?!
Well, we got there and, expectedly enough, there was a long line of people parked in front of the store (under the undermining drizzle), waiting for their chance to own Way’s scrawl. We circumvented the line by asking for Aaron, the store’s district manager, who shepherded us inside-ahead of the mob that ranged from the predictable emo kids to older adults who were there as actual fans, parents or eBay resellers. Things From Another World brought out the big guns for the event-not only extra staff, but a plethora of security guards.
Aaron informed me that the photogenic Way wasn’t too stoked on having a camera there, but as long as I wasn’t too obtrusive, everything was cool. Gerard Way, resistant to photography? His face was made to be in front of the camera! So behind a red velvet rope I stood, shooting away as Gerard greeted teenage girls.
When we left, Arya remarked on how gracious and down to earth Gerard seemed to be-to the extent that he wondered if Mr. Way might have had to work on it. But we kinda decided that indeed he had not, as he came off as so authentic and authentically kind. He shook everyone’s hand (except for mine. I’m not offering my hand to Gerard unless it’s in marriage and given he has a wife that is not moi, well…). While red roses and feather boas decorated the table beside him, other things handed to him included a guitar (that had been buffed so his signature would not wear away) and a magazine. That was my favorite interaction…
The magazine was given to Gerard by the girl who had shot the photos of MCR inside of it. He recognized her the second she stepped up the table. They went back and forth over whether he could keep it or if he would sign it and give it back to her. Way got to keep the magazine, and in exchange offered the woman his phone number. Not as some groupie hook-up, mind you, but because he knows how to treat his fans right. His personal assistant-type friend got her number and they arranged a meet-up the next day following a meeting that Gerard had. Anyone know what that meeting was about? I hope it was in regard to real-estate, so that Gerard becomes even more of a PDX resident than the rumors testify to. I mean, how awesome would it be to have Way and his art decorating Floating World (the hipper comic shop across the river) every First Thursday?!!?!
Oh-and as the photos prove-there was nary a bullet proof vest in sight. Expect 50 Cent to follow the new trend and to start rocking more denim…
