“The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: Apocalypse Suite”

“Just circling back to confirm: book is better than the show by A LOT. it’s much weirder and moves much faster. This is the ticket.

Comics have been adapted into super fun movies and shows, but if given the Sophie’s choice of all of comics or all of movies, one has to go away forever…I’d pick comics for the duration.

One because I guess i have a death wish or something. I feel like a lot of people would be reasonably upset if I just made that decision for everyone without taking a poll first. But how could I? The outcome would then just force me to go against everyone’s wishes anyway. Wouldn’t it be better for me to just do it instead of marching everyone through a vote, saying “thanks for your feedback,” and then pushing the button (or switch or whatever mechanism makes this work)?

Two because I think that movies, being such a big money industry, are generally less likely to be interesting than comics. What I mean is: a “micro budget” movie costs more than I’ll make in 20 years. A micro budget comic, hell, I could make one right now.

Of course this zero sum game isn’t real. You can enjoy both. For now…I haven’t accidentally unleashed this very specific and pop-culture-aware genie yet.

But might I advise you to start working through your Netflix queue now?

Because, as I said: I haven’t found that genie YET. “