The Umbrella Academy, the comic book series about the adopted siblings and misfit heroes who inspired the Netflix show by the same name, is getting a spinoff: You Look Like Death.
This six-issue story is written by Gerard Way — who cocreated the comic book series and is an executive producer of the TV show — with Shaun Simon. It will be drawn by I.N.J. Culbard. This is Simon’s first work on the Umbrella Academy, but he previously wrote the comic book The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys with Way, in 2013.
Dark Horse Comics will publish part one of You Look Like Death in June. The comic will focus on Séance (also known as Klaus Hargreeves), who is a heavy drinker and drug user who can communicate with the dead. Séance finds himself in Hollywood and alone when he runs into trouble.
It is a flashback tale set around 10 years before Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite, which was the first volume of the comic book series. “I imagined a pretty wild decade for Klaus — full of ups and downs, seedy places, supernatural excursions and internal battles,” Way said in a statement.
The Umbrella Academy, which debuted in 2007, was created with the artist Gabriel Bá, who is also an executive producer of the TV show. The comic won an Eisner Award, the industry equivalent of an Oscar, for best finite series in 2008. The third and most recent volume, Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion, was published last year. For fans of the TV series, a teaser about Season 2 appeared on Wednesday: An image showing the umbrella logo was posted on Twitter with the tagline “When are they?”
Source: Television - nytimes.com
