The Umbrella Academy

The Umbrella Academy Guía y cronología

The Hargreeves siblings were raised to save the world and grew up barely able to live with one another. Their reunions tend to bring old resentments and impending catastrophe together. Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá's comics and the Netflix adaptation give this damaged superhero family different encounters with time travel, responsibility and the end of everything.

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Timeline guide

The Umbrella Academy: Reunite with One Version of the Family

Read The Apocalypse Suite for the comic introduction, or begin Netflix's first season. Follow the chosen Hargreeves family before comparing its alternative screen or page history.

Entries
9
Released
9
Span
2007-2025

You Look Like Death turns toward younger Klaus. Its earlier perspective does not replace the main comic family's introduction.

Overview & recommendation

The Hargreeves siblings reunite carrying damage from the same upbringing but very different ideas of what it meant. Starting at that reunion lets their arguments become a history you recognize before later travels and altered circumstances complicate the family further.

The comics and Netflix adaptation share people and premises while taking them down different paths. The source's Klaus spin-off also has another scope: an earlier individual perspective, not simply the next larger apocalypse. Choose the version before trying to explain every contradiction as a time-travel event.

Follow the comics from Apocalypse Suite through their main arcs, with You Look Like Death as an optional earlier-Klaus excursion. For Netflix, stay with season order from the first reunion. Do not alternate a comic arc and a television season as if they were interchangeable halves of one adaptation.

Two Hargreeves Histories Comic family and television interpretation

The source and screen routes have distinct developments. Within the comics, a personal spin-off and a main arc are different kinds of story rather than automatically later events.

  • Comics (5 entries)

    The main Umbrella Academy comic arcs and Klaus's earlier personal spin-off, with collection dates distinguished from first-issue and story placement.

  • Netflix Series (4 entries)

    Netflix's Hargreeves interpretation in season order, separate from treating the comic arcs as interchangeable parts of the same history.

The Reunion Before the Time Problems 9 entries

Begin at the family's first presented reunion in the selected version. Later worlds and relationships draw on that first understanding of the siblings.

  1. 1
    The Apocalypse SuiteNovel · 2007
  2. 2
    The Umbrella AcademySeries · 2019
  3. 3
    DallasNovel · 2008
  4. 4
    The Umbrella AcademySeries · 2020
  5. 5
    Hotel OblivionNovel · 2019
  6. 6
    The Umbrella AcademySeries · 2022
  7. 7
    You Look Like DeathNovel · 2021
  8. 8
    The Umbrella AcademySeries · 2024
  9. 9
    The Umbrella Academy: Plan BNovel · 2025

Young Klaus and Changing Histories 9 entries

Publication years do not establish the siblings' calendar. Time travel and You Look Like Death's earlier perspective require their own version-specific context.

  1. 1
    2007The Apocalypse SuiteNovel · 2007
  2. 2
    2008DallasNovel · 2008
  3. 3
    2019Hotel OblivionNovel · 2019
  4. 4
    2019The Umbrella AcademySeries · 2019
  5. 5
    2020The Umbrella AcademySeries · 2020
  6. 6
    2021You Look Like DeathNovel · 2021
  7. 7
    2022The Umbrella AcademySeries · 2022
  8. 8
    2024The Umbrella AcademySeries · 2024
  9. 9
    2025The Umbrella Academy: Plan BNovel · 2025

Frequently asked questions 6 answers

Must I read the comics before watching Netflix?

No. The first television season introduces its own family. The comics offer an alternative source route to compare, not mandatory missing backstory.

Should You Look Like Death be the first comic?

It focuses on younger Klaus. Apocalypse Suite introduces the central family and remains the recommended main-story beginning, with the spin-off explored later.

How many Umbrella Academy shows and books are there?

The Umbrella Academy has 9 entries: 5 books and 4 TV shows, released between 2007 and 2025.

What is the chronological order of The Umbrella Academy?

In chronological (in-universe) order, The Umbrella Academy begins with The Apocalypse Suite (2007) and ends with The Umbrella Academy: Plan B. The full chronological list of 9 entries is above.

What is the release order of The Umbrella Academy?

By release date, The Umbrella Academy starts with The Apocalypse Suite (2007). The most recent release is The Umbrella Academy: Plan B (2025).

What is the newest The Umbrella Academy release?

The newest released entry is The Umbrella Academy: Plan B (2025). See where it falls in the chronological and reading order lists above.

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