The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite (2007)

The Umbrella Academy, starting with Apocalypse Suite Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá's comic is far stranger and faster than the Netflix show. The first season followed this opening volume while borrowing from the second, Dallas, but where television spends hours on family drama, the comic throws out a dozen absurd ideas a page and trusts Bá's angular art to hold them together. Each volume is short, so this is a weekend read rather than a commitment.