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4.35 AVERAGE
4.35 AVERAGE
I find that it takes a lot more from a trade paperback comic collection for me to get really emotionally involved and for me to feel all the feels. this one slipped right under my skin and completely thrilled my with the depth of feeling it stirred up.
Probably hyperbole as it's difficult to remember everything I've read, but I'd say it's the best trade paperback I've ever read. Slowly builds up to an uncomfortably harrowing finale and a beautifully touching epilogue.
6 stars from me.
And thus the series concludes. I told you all I would review the whole thing eventually, but it's just...so good. You've just got to read it for yourselves really!
Seeing how a storyline like this has been integrated into the MCU's Wandavision has been extremely enjoyable. King manages to pack so much emotional depth into all of the characters despite the story being twelve issues long. You begin to lose track of the fact that Vision is still just a android, no matter how intelligent or emotional he may appear (he doesn't really have feelings...right?)
King also employs a few unique narration trick in a few of the issues, such as when he basically tells the reader what tragic thing is going to occur soon, yet you are still glued to the page watching the events unfold. Additionally, you never find out who this mysterious outsider of a narrator is until the very end. (Or at least I didn't. I'm sure someone smarter than me probably guessed it in the first volume.)
Still, a story in comic book form will still always falter if the art is not operating at the same caliber. In this case, Walta and Walsh knock it out of the park. Whether its creating the comforting, suburban home environment of the Vision residence with its symbolic pieces to contrast with the sinister events, or drawing so much more emotion than most artists care to do into the facial expressions of an android, the artistic team really sold the suspense that King provided. If you have been a fan of Marvel for decades, or are simply searching for something to whet your Marvel appetite after binging on the MCU saga for the fifth time, this series will have something for you.
*Review may be slightly affected in quality due to the book having Victor Mancha and a Runaways cameo. Sorry not sorry.*
I've never been a fan of Vision but I thought Viv was an interesting character in The Champions and wanted to know more about her. While it didn't have much Viv, this amazing story gives a true insight into her actions in The Champions.
This was very interesting and made me think of Vision in a much different way, going on not much more than the movies. I would highly recommend this to fans looking to branch out from the normal big name heroes. There's a lot to be said about the nature of humanity, technology, and family in this series.
But this is not a family. This is a lie.
And what good can come of this lie?
HOO BOY. I really loved [b:The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man|27163019|The Vision, Volume 1 Little Worse Than A Man|Tom King|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1466479787s/27163019.jpg|49571362], but this is possibly even better, a capstone to the series and a devastating ending to the story. I feel like I've been punched in the gut with this duology: the whole series is just 12 issues (!!), but it's still such a feelsy rumination on family, love, artificial intelligence, beating destiny, and what it means to be human. I've never known much about Vision or cared about him, but this makes me so deeply invested in him; it's absolutely haunting in the way it bounces back to his history with Wanda Maximoff and then to present-day, the family he's built for himself, the space in suburbia he's carved out for them.
Virginia is still a lynchpin of the emotional heart of this series: glitching from her actions in the previous volume, a harried housewife coming apart at the seams, until that ending, man. That ending. Their love for each other.
It's all so foreboding, with the story unfolding like a trainwreck in the shadow of knowing Vision is going to turn on the Avengers, and in knowing that Victor Mancha is trying his best to shake his destiny too. They're like inverted coins, versions of each other.
I feel heartsick at this ending. And I want more one-off Marvel series like this tbh, so they can rise to an astounding climax and then finish. Recommending this for pretty much everyone, especially if you have any interest in AIs as characters at all.