Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon’s Daytripper was one of my most anticipated comics of 2009. “It’s not fair but I went into Daytripper looking for a return of the type of stories they told in De: Tales. Daytripper #1 shares similar elements to De: Tales; the Brazilian setting and the emphasis more on the little [...]
Tags: Fabio Moon, Gabriel Ba
I’ve become a huge fan of Gabriel Ba’s artwork, really discovering it on Matt Fraction’s Casanova and following it over to Gerard Way and Ba’s The Umbrella Academy. December’s Daytrippers from Ba and his twin brother Fabio Moon is probably one of the books I’m most eagerly anticipating for the remainder of the year. The [...]
Tags: Gabriel Ba, The Umbrella Academy
Monkey children. Dead fathers standing against a background of a mushroom cloud. Broken televators. Secret organizations involved in the assassination of JFK. “What happens when you die? I mean… what’s on the other side?” “There’s nothing. Nothing at all.” These are just a few of my favorite things from The Umbrella Academy: Dallas #4. What [...]
Tags: Gabriel Ba, Gerard Way, The Umbrella Academy
Umbrella Academy Dallas #1 begins the day after. Well, it may not be the day but it is soon after the events of Apocalypse Suite, the reunion of the childhood team and adopted family after years apart when their surrogate father died and one of them went crazy. As reunions go, it probably wasn’t the [...]
Tags: Gabriel Ba, Gerard Way, The Umbrella Academy
CBR has a nice post up about the upcoming The Umbrella Academy 2: Dallas, featuring some great Gabriel Ba artwork. Ba, along with his brother Fabio Moon, may be one of my favorite artists currently working. The above image is some kind of freakish mix of Jack Kirby, Mike Mignola, Art Adams and Jim Lee, [...]
Tags: Casanova, Gabriel Ba, Gerard Way, Jim Lee, Matt Fraction, The Umbrella Academy