Netflix Umbrella Academy: Is this the show to finally do justice to graphic novel adaptations after many false dawns?
With more readers who grew up in the golden age of comics demanding live adaptations for their favorite heroes, it must come as no surprise that 'Umbrella Academy' would be high on the list of graphic novels that will hit the big screens this year. It has to its credit the 2008 Eisner Award for Best Finite Series/Limited Series.
Straight from the mind of Gerard Way, who’s better known as the front runner of the famous Goth-punk band “My Chemical Romance”, the story follows a family of seven super-powered children, born of supposedly “virgin” births, who are lovingly (albeit judgingly) taken under the wing of Sir Reginald Hargreeves, a seemingly eccentric billionaire-industrialist. The viewer is then taken through the harrowing adventures of Hargreeves “children”, as they seek to investigate their father’s demise.
