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9. The Umbrella Academy

(Dark Horse Comics)

With a Netflix series in development, the Umbrella Academy are starting to gain some notoriety, and that's a good thing.

Created by artist Gabriel Bá and musician/comic book writer Gerard Way, I've previously described the team as What if Tim Burton had created the X-Men?

Years ago, the cosmic forces aligned, and an atomic elbow drop radiated throughout the universe. This caused babies with great potential to be spontaneously born worldwide. Professor Hargrieves gathered seven of these babies and raised them as the Umbrella Academy heroes. Much of the series takes place around the grown-up versions of the kids, but we do see them as child heroes a few times, and it's always great. Plus, Number 5, "The Boy" is perpetually a child. Spaceboy, Rumor, Séance, they're all interesting and weird and fun to watch. I only hope Netflix gives us even more of their childhoods.

Fingers crossed, guys.