You Look Like Death: Tales from the Umbrella Academy is a superhero comic miniseries written by Gerard Way and Shaun Simon, illustrated by I.N.J. Culbard, and published by Dark Horse Comics. It follows young Klaus Hargreeves on his journey to Hollywood, where he explores his ghostly abilities and becomes involved in a conflict with a vampire drug lord.
The comic is part of the Umbrella Academy spin-off label Tales from the Umbrella Academy, and is set about ten years before Apocalypse Suite. It was published between 2020 and 2021, and received positive reviews.
Synopsis[]
When 18-year-old Klaus gets himself kicked out of the Umbrella Academy and his allowance discontinued, he heads to a place where his ghoulish talents will be appreciated--Hollywood. But after a magical high on a stash stolen from a vampire drug lord, Klaus needs help, and doesn't have his siblings there to save him.[1]
Issues[]
| Issue No. | Cover | Summary | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| When 18-year-old Séance gets himself kicked out of the Umbrella Academy, and his allowance discontinued by Hargreeves, he takes to a place where his ghoulish talents will be appreciated--Hollywood. After a magical high on a vampire-drug-lord's stash, Klaus needs help, and doesn't have his siblings there to save him. | |||
| When Klaus channels the ghost of a renowned actor at a Hollywood party, his retired paramour realizes he might be exactly what she needs to regain the limelight--and gives him a taste of real magic. Meanwhile, the vampire-chimp drug lord takes a red-eye to Hollywood to search for the Umbrella-brat who stole his stash... | |||
| Klaus's contact with the dead comes in handy when his former movie star friend needs help wowing a casting director. Beneath Hollywood, we catch up with Shivers, the vampire-chimp drug lord, in his vampire amusement park, where he continues his search for the Umbrella Brat who stole his stash, while Klaus's aging paramour distracts him with booze... and relish. | |||
| The Hollywood Gods reveal why the once-famous Vivian Clarke was blacklisted, and Klaus sees a side of Vivian that scares even him. Business is booming at the underground vampire amusement park--funhouse mirrors don't really work for the undead, but the bobbing-for-apples-in-blood-station is a hit. The vampire chimp boss discovers that Klaus could serve him better alive than dead. | |||
| Klaus travels into the Void in search of the dead wife of the vampire chimp boss. While he's there, Klaus's author friend provides dangerous insight about want-to-be-starlet, Vivian. Vivian bombs a rehearsal, but it's the cast and crew that really suffer. | |||
| With funding from the Hollywood Gods, Klaus directs his new film, starring ageing starlet Vivian Clarke, in a longshot attempt to rein in her evil, while finding some peace for his doomed author friend. But the real ace in hole may be the vampire chimp lord who's put a price on Klaus's head. |
Publication[]
In February 2020, Dark Horse Comics announced they would be publishing an Umbrella Academy spinoff miniseries centered around the Séance entitled You Look Like Death, written by Gerard Way and Shaun Simon, and illustrated by I.N.J. Culbard.[2] It is part of the Tales from the Umbrella Academy series, and is potentially the first of other miniseries set in the ten years between the Umbrella Academy disbanding and reuniting for their father's funeral in Apocalypse Suite[3]