Book 5 - 2020
Book 5: The Umbrella Academy: Volume 3 - Hotel Oblivion by Gerard Way & Gabriel Ba - 216 pages
Description from bookdepository.co.uk:
Umbrella Academy is Netflix's most watched show of 2019 with over 45 million viewers and a second season on the way! Now the best-selling graphic novel returns 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. Features an introduction by Eisner Award-winning creator Jeff Lemire! 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.
Thoughts:
I honestly have no idea what was going on in this volume. Every page seemed to focus on something different, and how the threads tied together was not really explained in my opinion. Anyway, by the time I’d got to the end, I’d forgotten what was going on in the early chapters because I found it so hard to follow. The artwork did not help. I’ve not been a huge fan of the Umbrella Academy artwork, but I found it almost impossible to follow in this one, burdening the already complex story. In fact, I think I got more out of the extra notes bit at the end which explained some of the thought process behind designs or characters. I really want to like the comic version of the Umbrella Academy, because I’m a big believer in source material, but I truly feel the Netflix series version was superior. Disappointing.
5 / 50 books. 10% done!
1555 / 15000 pages. 10% done!
Currently reading:
Journey to the West by Cheng-En Wu - 673 pages
The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion by Matt Whyman - 320 pages
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers - 135 pages
And coming up:
The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: Volume 3: White Gold Wielder by Stephen Donaldson - 500 pages
The Odyssey by Homer - 324 pages
Love in a Nutshell by Janet Evanovich & Dorien Kelly - 310 pages
Description from bookdepository.co.uk:
Umbrella Academy is Netflix's most watched show of 2019 with over 45 million viewers and a second season on the way! Now the best-selling graphic novel returns 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. Features an introduction by Eisner Award-winning creator Jeff Lemire! 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.
Thoughts:
I honestly have no idea what was going on in this volume. Every page seemed to focus on something different, and how the threads tied together was not really explained in my opinion. Anyway, by the time I’d got to the end, I’d forgotten what was going on in the early chapters because I found it so hard to follow. The artwork did not help. I’ve not been a huge fan of the Umbrella Academy artwork, but I found it almost impossible to follow in this one, burdening the already complex story. In fact, I think I got more out of the extra notes bit at the end which explained some of the thought process behind designs or characters. I really want to like the comic version of the Umbrella Academy, because I’m a big believer in source material, but I truly feel the Netflix series version was superior. Disappointing.
5 / 50 books. 10% done!
1555 / 15000 pages. 10% done!
Currently reading:
Journey to the West by Cheng-En Wu - 673 pages
The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion by Matt Whyman - 320 pages
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers - 135 pages
And coming up:
The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: Volume 3: White Gold Wielder by Stephen Donaldson - 500 pages
The Odyssey by Homer - 324 pages
Love in a Nutshell by Janet Evanovich & Dorien Kelly - 310 pages