It began with a limited-issue
series created by Gerard Way and drawn by Gabriel Ba for comic book publisher
Dark Horse Comics that first came out in 2007. Since then, “The Umbrella
Academy” has accrued three volumes, a spinoff anthology title and even a TV
series adaptation streaming on Netflix that has a second season arriving at the
end of the month. That is not half bad for a superhero team story that
initially sounds like “X-Men” but stands out for how dysfunctional the members
can get. Now it looks like the umbrella-carrying “heroes” are about to
transition to a new media: trading card games.
According to Comic Book Resources, “The Umbrella Academy” is being adapted in
card game form by Studio71 Games, in collaboration with Dark Horse Comics. That
means the characters will be depicted in their comic-book art form rather than
the live actors from the Netflix show. And to get this product off the ground,
Studio71 Games has put “The Umbrella Academy” card game on Kickstarter for
funding. An initial blurb about the game describes it as players assuming the
role of any one of the seven members the titular Umbrella Academy gathered by
Professor Hargreeves and must fight against multiple antagonist super-beings
from the comic books.
The Kickstarter campaign for the
card game set a relatively modest goal of $30,000 to launch the product, and it
has already been reached and surpassed. Even as Studio71 Games and Dark Horse
Comics prepare to start its mass manufacture of “The Umbrella Academy” card
game, the franchise’s original writer and first illustrator Gerard Way and
Gabriel Ba announced in a joint statement how very impressed they are, not just
by the by this new iteration of their story but of the entire franchise thus
far and its grand reception with print and Netflix audiences.
Netflix’s adaptation of “The
Umbrella Academy” stars an ensemble cast including Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David
Castañeda, Robert Sheehan, Mary J. Blige, and Justin H. Min. Season 1 premiered
on the streaming giant in February 2019. Season 2 is set to arrive this July
31.
Image courtesy of Hollywood Reporter
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