“I’ve found over the years that all your creativity is circular. It’s the same ride going into all this stuff.”
Gerard Way is the creator of"The Umbrella Academy” comics, which have inspired the new Netflix show where he’s credited as a co-executive producer. chose a uniform. Just like a superhero in a comic book. Or maybe the villain.
Way has emerged as a singular and respected voice in comics, whose contributions aren’t considered just a vanity side project. He’s a talented writer who embraces the bizarre and the postmodern possibilities of the medium. Issues of “The Umbrella Academy” have become increasingly and joyfully complex, while his take on the weirdos in “The Doom Patrol” is reliably brain-bending.
Though there are flashbacks, the action focuses on when the children have all become bitter grown-ups, reunited after the death of their unloving father. This was before the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe opened up all the possibilities available for superhero properties, and most comic-book movies were hung up on retelling elaborate origin stories, which “The Umbrella Academy” dispenses with over only a few pages. Way worked with screenwriters on draft after draft, but nothing got greenlighted. When the film option ended, “Umbrella Academy” was repackaged into a new series for Netflix.
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