What a weird book! (in a good way) 
 I ran across The Umbrella Academy at my local library and loved the cover images and info enough to give it a try. Never having heard the name Gerard Way, it wasn't until I added the book on Goodreads that I realized he's the guy from My Chemical Romance (a band I don't think I've ever listened to, but I taught art students who wore their T-shirts...) 
 As it turns out, the Umbrella Academy is a group of superhero kids adopted by a monocle-wearing old dude with a chimp assistant. The mask-wearing siblings (who each answer to a seemingly endless number of names) have a falling out in adulthood but are brought back together by familial tragedy and the threat of imminent doom. While none of that sounds too strange (right?), the execution is decidedly weirder. Noirish, but surreal. Spacey, but urban. Victorian affectations wrapped in absurdist humor. With tentacles coming out of an abdomen and a mother made from a dressform. You know, the usual. 
 While I love so much of what is happening in this story, I finished the volume not really knowing any of the characters. They all seem well thought-out, but the fast pace of the global destruction doesn't give them much time to reveal themselves. If this storyline were turned into a full-length novel, I would definitely read it.