The Umbrella Academy was created by Gerard Way and the My Chemical Romance singer has a cameo in the Netflix show, albeit without actually appearing.

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Based on the popular and award-winning Dark Horse Comics graphic novels created and written by Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance) and illustrated by Gabriel Bá, the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy follows the “children” of Sir Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feore), a billionaire industrialist who adopts seven of the 43 infants inexplicably born on the same day in 1989 to random women who showed no signs of pregnancy the day before. While they’ve been prepared to save the world, things are never that easy, and now that the impending apocalypse is very real, Luther (Tom Hopper), Diego (David Castañ…

Spoilers ahead for The Umbrella Academy, both Netflix series and comic book. The Umbrella Academy is one of the most batshit symphonies composed by Netflix in a long time, building insane movement by insane movement until it crescendos in its tenth episode, ultimately ending on a suspended note, a deliciously frustrating cliffhanger that leaves the entire Earth a fiery, scorched mess. Now that I've used literally every musical term in my vocabulary, let's discuss that ending, and how it improves on the comic book source material by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá by turning the end of the …