The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite

Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá launched this offbeat superhero saga at Dark Horse in 2007, reimagining the dysfunctional-family dynamics of a superpowered brood raised by an eccentric billionaire. Across six issues, the Hargreeves siblings reunite amid a looming apocalypse, with James Jean's painted covers setting the tone for a story that blends emotional wreckage with cosmic absurdity. It matters as the defining work that proved a musician could helm a genuinely inventive comic, and as the series that established the Umbrella Academy as a cult-favorite property.