The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite #2

The second chapter of Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá's Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite arrives with a hauntingly beautiful James Jean cover depicting what appears to be a funeral gathering — a framed portrait of an older man rests at the forefront while several costumed figures stand among gnarled trees and pale statuary in an atmosphere somewhere between grief and unease. The story title, "We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals," fits Jean's elegiac imagery perfectly, suggesting a fractured family brought together by loss. Dave Stewart's muted, atmospheric colors give the whole scene a dreamlike melancholy that makes this 2007 Dark Horse series feel unlike anything else on the shelf.