The Jennifer Incident has bedeviled Umbrella Academy fans for nearly as long as The Umbrella Academy has been around. It was first teased in one of creator Gerard Way’s earliest comics as an inexplicable headline framed on a wall. “I have no idea what it even refers to. I just came up with something that sounded interesting and could be thought-provoking,” he later confessed.
More than 16 years later, the Jennifer Incident seems poised to pay off in a big way.