Gerard Way‘s comic book series ‘The Umbrella Academy’ will return for a new story launching this June.
Variety reports that Way and Gabriel Bá will co-write the series, entitled ‘The Umbrella Academy: Plan B’. It will arrive via Dark Horse Comics with Bá also illustrating.
On continuing the series, Way said “Telling this story with Gabriel would become, as it is today, such a special part of my life. This is not only because we would evolve as artists – but because we had the opportunity to grow up over a pretty crazy adventure together. Each chapter of this story seems to form and coalesce into its own organism— sometimes it’s a screaming baby on a subway car, other times a great big metal bird falling from the sky – and because of this, I am just as excited for ‘Plan B’ as I was when we went on this trip together with ‘Apocalypse Suite.’”
Issue 1 will be released on June 11.
Here is how Dark Horse Comics describes the series: “After the mass release of The City’s greatest foes and the chaos that followed in Hotel Oblivion, the Umbrella Academy faces their most fearsome challenge to date–their other brothers and sisters. Known only as The Sparrows, they share a different connection to Sir Reginald Hargreeves and Mom. No one knows how to hurt each other more than family, and this powerful, ruthless brood will spare no brutality in favor of their sole objective—control and the obedient glare that comes with it.”
Have a look at the cover variants of ‘The Umbrella Academy: Plan B’ Issue 1 below:
‘The Umbrella Academy’ was previously adapted into a successful Netflix series which came to a conclusion last year with its fourth and final season.
Watch our previous interview with Robert Sheehan and Tom Hopper about the show below:
Gerard Way will also tour with My Chemical Romance later this summer for a US stadium tour celebrating their ‘The Black Parade’ album.