The 2008 Eisner Award Winner for “Best Limited Series,” Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba’s The Umbrella Academy returns with the debut of a new six-issue mini-series The Umbrella Academy: Dallas, which is shipping from Dark Horse Comics on November 26th. Dark Horse is spicing up the debut of the popular and critically acclaimed series with a variant cover by Jim Lee to complement Gabriel Ba’s original design. Author Way is the lead singer of the band My Chemical Romance, and his heavy involvement in this project has brought a number of new readers into the comic market, while his extensive knowledge of comics (and admiration for top comic scribes like Grant Morrison) has insured that The Umbrella Academy has found success with fans of cutting edge superhero books.
In its first series The Umbrella Academy managed to save the world, but the cost was high. The house in which the members of the unlikely supergroup were raised was destroyed, while Allison (The Rumor) has lost her voice (the source of her power) and Vanya (The White Violin) is bedridden with the side of her head held together with tape, the result of being shot by Number Five (a.k.a. The Future). What does the future hold for The Umbrella Academy and why does it unfold in