If you haven’t seen The Umbrella Academy on Netflix by now then you probably should. Even though the market for superhero movies is undoubtably saturated, there is absolutely room for Gerard Way’s unique dysfunctional superhero family vision.
If you are a fan of Gerard Way, you might be wondering how the frontman of My Chemical Romance ended up creating a comic book series that ended up being
Speaking with Rolling Stone, Way explained that his inspiration for writing the comics came very much from the feeling that the comic he wanted to read didn’t exist yet. And so he made it.
“The philosophy that I apply to all the art I make is that you should make something that you would want to read or listen to or see, something that you feel doesn’t exist in the specific way you see it in your head, something that can only be told through your lens,” Way explained.
“In comics, I didn’t see anything like The Umbrella Academy,” he continued. “I saw a lot of things that were beholden to continuity that had been going on for 50 years and stories that have continued that long, but I didn’t see anything that threw the reader in the deep end and just got them into the good stuff right away.”
You
can watch The Umbrella Academy on
Netflix now.
