Just Some Interesting Things I Found In The Umbrella Academy Comics

Ben: Being dead is like being home alone when you’re a teenager. You can say whatever you want, whenever you want, because only one person can hear you and that’s just your annoying little brother

Ben: DICKS!

Ben: THE BIG BANG THEORY WAS A BORING TV SHOW!

Ben: I ONCE SPENT A WEEK EATING NOTHING BUT NACHO CHEESE!

Klaus: [exasperated sigh]

Robbie: why are you blue?

Justin: cause I’m a ghost

The sass level is high

Umbrella Academy cast reacting to their Pop Vinyls

slightly shittier power au

luther is still super strong. but to activate his strength he has to use a dumbbell with one arm.

diego can only curve shitty plastic cutlery. they surprsingly do a lot of damage.

allison can still rumour people but she has to say “want to know the hot goss?” first. 

klaus can still see the dead. thats it. thats the power.

five’s time travel only works if he makes the tardis flying sound before jumping through time.

ben still has the horror but its not tentacles. its a bunch of spider legs and its somehow more terrifying 

vanya still has her sound powers but they only work if she listens to pop music made in the last decade. she causes the apocalypse by listening to despacito

lookie here its our fave ghostly duo !!! finally finished this after a long while OOF– 

Umbrella Academy as Buzzfeed Unsolved

Luther

Diego

Allison

Klaus

Five

Ben 

Vanya

piano ben

after the not-apocalypse, ben is kind of lost

he doesn’t really have any skills other than fighting, because he died pretty young

so ben is constantly jumping from hobby to hobby, trying to find something he likes

klaus suggests art, which ben does try, but it doesn’t really click for him

he keeps asking people what they like but none of the things they suggest really work? they’re either way too complicated or he just doesn’t really like them

but then vanya suggests he learns an instrument

at first he wanted to try the violin, because vanya already knows it and she could teach him

but then he decided that it’s too painful

(ive played the violin for a little. ouch my fingertips)

he also tries the saxophone and trumpet but no luck

then it hits him

the ultimate instrument. the one that if he knows how to play it, learning how to play another one wouldnt be as hard

that’s right its the fucking piano

if he learns it, he learn how to read music, he learns chords, he learns all of that music theory shit, hes basically music man at that point

piano it is

ben is actually pretty good, for somebody who’s been dead for over a decade

he starts out with all that basic shit, yanno? im not going to describe the process of learning piano and the stuff that comes with it. he learns piano okay

once he gets pretty good, like maybe fur elise level good

he plays with vanya

because she needs a piano accompanist for practice sometimes! and he can play the piano! its perfect

he learns a bunch of classical and contemporary music, but also the notes to songs and showtunes and stuff

so he can accompany klaus, because def sings at least a little bit

for fun, minimum.

it becomes a family thing they do

ben playing piano, vanya playing violin, and the rest either singing or dancing

or both

ben learns i think we’re alone now! because he loves his family

sometimes when ben is questioning if he’s alive or not he goes and plays the piano

they have a keyboard in the house, but after ben shows that he’s like, really serious about the piano they buy a piano

i want to say they buy a grand piano, but honestly i also kind of feel like ben would really like playing stand up pianos??

idk there really isn’t much of a difference, he enjoys both

eventually he starts teaching lessons, like vanya

instead of teaching at a music school or something he just has lessons in the mansion

so there’s often these little kids playing piano

and ben trying to show them the scales

ben writes a couple of his own songs at one point

he doesn’t really compose because he can never make the notes fit together in the right way, but sometimes just playing out a little melody he made up on the spot is really nice

additionally: he can play memes on the piano, and because he missed out on it in his previous life ben rickrolls his siblings a lot

five doesn’t understand why klaus is dying of laughter after ben starts playing a song

because he’s an old man who has little to no understanding of pop culture

in conclusion: ben plays piano and i love him

Test post w quick sketch.

guess who loves colouring but sucks at it ayyyy here’s Ben Hargreeves, no.6!

Diego: I turned out perfectly FINE!

Luther: This morning you thought a ghost made your toast

Diego: I DIDN’T PUT THE BREAD IN! YOU DIDN’T PUT THE BREAD IN!

Ben, putting more toast into the toaster: Toasty toasty for my broski

I made TV klaus in comic Klaus style and I'm really happy with it! But i forgot to do the eyes and I cba so he wears sunglasses now.