The Umbrella Academy: Plan B is built as one continuous six-issue story, not a set of standalone chapters, which makes reading order genuinely matter here.
Four issues have shipped as of this guide, with issue five and the finale, issue six, still ahead on Dark Horse's own release schedule.
Reading the series out of order, or skipping straight to a later issue because it sounded more exciting in a preview, makes some of the smaller character beats land flat.
Here is the full issue-by-issue order, what actually happens in each one, and where the two unreleased issues fit once they ship.
Plan B opens directly on the fallout from Hotel Oblivion, the prior Umbrella Academy volume where the City's imprisoned villains get loose and the Academy ends up exiled inside the hotel itself.
Skipping straight to Plan B without that context still works story-wise, but the Sparrows' sudden takeover of the city reads as a much bigger jump if you haven't seen what put the Academy on the back foot first.
After the chaos of Hotel Oblivion, the Umbrella Academy faces its most personal challenge yet: the Sparrows, a different set of Hargreeves-connected siblings aiming for control rather than chaos.
This is the setup issue, establishing who the Sparrows are and why this fight is framed as a family problem. Bag your copy in a current-age comic bag right away, since issue #1 alone carries an unusually large run of variant covers worth protecting.
With the Umbrella Academy exiled inside Hotel Oblivion, the Sparrows tighten their grip on the city while Rumor tries to find a way to counter them.
A subplot involving the President of the United States and an upcoming election starts threading through here, alongside open questions about Vanya's role and a mysterious figure Deever keeps talking to.
With the Sparrows firmly in charge, issue #3 slows down to check in on how each Academy member is handling it — Klaus in a support group, Five chasing a normal job, Spaceboy talking through old hero worship.
Rumor gets a personal surprise in this issue too, while Mom's wish to see her children reunited becomes a clearer emotional throughline for the back half of the series.
After the long gap following issue #3, issue #4 catches up with Allison confronting mistakes from her past instead of continuing to bury herself in work.
Jennifer's visions keep nudging at the plot in this issue too, alongside a lighter beat involving presidential security and a chimpanzee dressed as Marilyn Monroe.
As of this guide, issue #5 hasn't shipped yet; Dark Horse's own solicitation describes the Sparrows planning a counterstrike while an ally races to reunite the scattered Academy and Mom turns to a mysterious power for help.
Check Dark Horse's own listing closer to the date, since issue #4's schedule already slipped once earlier in the run.
Issue #6 is billed directly by Dark Horse as the series finale, with the Umbrella Academy finally confronting the Sparrows head-on after being caught off guard the first time.
Whatever the outcome, Dark Horse's own copy for this issue promises the family coming out of it smaller — a clear signal this ending isn't meant to be a soft one.
With nearly five months between issue #4 and the finale, a lot of readers are planning to reread issues #1 through #5 right before issue #6 ships rather than relying on memory from over a year earlier.
That's especially worth doing given the smaller character-focused beats in issues #2 and #3, like Deever's mystery conversations and Rumor's personal surprise, which are easy to forget once the bigger Sparrows showdown takes over the later issues.
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It isn't required, but it explains why the Academy starts the series exiled.
Issue #1, published June 11, 2025.
Yes, Plan B is told as a single continuous story in numerical order.
Two — issue #5 and the finale, issue #6.
With two issues still shipping, now is a good time to set up a system for keeping your run in order rather than sorting it out after the fact.
A comic book divider makes it easy to keep Plan B separated from the rest of your Umbrella Academy back issues as the run grows.
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