The Umbrella Academy: Dallas is the second comic book limited series of The Umbrella Academy created and written by Gerard Way and illustrated by Gabriel Bá. It is the follow-up to Apocalypse Suite. The series ran for six issues from November 2008 to April 2009. Tony Ong provided back cover art for this series only. A trade paperback was released on September 30, 2009. The story revolves around Number Five and his association with the Kennedy assassination.
Plot
Issue #1: "The Jungle" The first issue was released on November 26, 2008.
In a flashback, the young Umbrella Academy battle the now-living statue of Abraham Lincoln as part of a deal between their adoptive father Hargreeves and President John F. Kennedy. Following the events of Apocalypse Suite, Kraken has taken more of a leadership stance on the team as Spaceboy has become morbidly obese due to depression. The Rumor, unable to use her reality-shifting powers due to the severing of her vocal cords, holds a grudge against a now-paralyzed and amnesiac White Violin. Number 5 is hunted by men in gas masks; after a battle from which Number 5 emerges the victor, a survivor manages to request the intervention of "Hazel and Cha-Cha", to which Number 5 responds with horror.
Issue #2: "Boy Scouts" The second issue was released on December 24, 2008.
Hazel and Cha-Cha (two time-traveling serial killers who wear oversized cartoon animal masks) are at a diner eating pie. Hazel asks what is in it, but the cook won't tell them. The cook fondly explains his encounter with a businessman from Barcelona offering $5000 for the recipe, which was refused, and that the cook had told him that he'd have to chop off all his arms and legs in order to get the recipe out of him. The two men then proceed to do so. The Kraken encounters Lupo in his office at the police station as he is skimming through photos of a massacre caused by Number 5, and is questioned about Number 5. Kraken is clueless about his brother's whereabouts. The Kraken returns home and is infuriated at Spaceboy. The Rumor discovers the Monocle's monocle and with it, Number 5. The Seance is captured by Hazel and Cha-Cha, who want to use him to locate Number 5.
Issue #3: "Television" or "Are You There, God? It's Me, Klaus" The third issue was released on January 28, 2009.
The chapter starts with the Seance inside of a television left on by the obese Spaceboy, who is asleep on the couch. As Seance is trying to tell Spaceboy that he will be killed, the television then breaks and Spaceboy wakes up. The Seance was communicating with Spaceboy through the television and Hazel and Cha-Cha found out, breaking the television. After some words about the Seance's shoes and powers are exchanged by the three, Cha-Cha puts a gun to the Seance's head. The Seance tries to pay his way out of his situation with money or "hooker amputees", but Hazel and Cha-Cha state that they have all they want, that is, the nukes referred to in the first issue's flashback. Hazel then shoots the Seance. Number 5 starts to tell the Rumor about his time in the future in which he left out major details. During his travel back to the present he was captured by the Temps Aeternalis, an agency that preserves the time continuum and recruits "anomalies" like Number 5 and puts them to work. He was changed through numerous surgeries and training, which explains much of the skills and other abilities he acquires through the series. Number 5 was considered the best and was specially trained by a Shubunkin Goldfish (Carmichael) with a genius-level intellect to handle specific individuals. Number 5 was then assigned to assassinate President Kennedy but rebelled. Spaceboy flies to where the Seance was held and finds him dead. An electric prod handled by Hazel shocks Spaceboy, believing that it killed him. The Seance, on the other hand, is seen in a perception of Heaven with a figure implied to be God, who is depicted as a cowboy. The cowboy implies that the Umbrella Academy is a modern-day incarnation of the Messiah and tells Klaus that he is to return to Earth. Carmichael appears and talks with Number 5. Number 5 threatens his former officer, that is, until he states that he has his biological mother in the eyes of two agents that can kill her if he doesn't finish the Kennedy assassination. Allison is reluctant to travel along, but Carmichael responds by informing them that Number 5's biological mother had twins, revealing that 5 has a biological twin sibling.
Issue #4: "A Perfect Life" The fourth issue was released on February 25, 2009.