Reviews

Avengers: Vision and the Scarlet Witch: A Year in the Life by Richard Howell, Steve Englehart, Al Milgrom

amazeinbooks's review

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

amysreading_nook's review

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Book 1/67 TBR

Well starting off my year well 🤣 I was so bored reading this it was painful and I almost DNF’d but I didn’t want to start my year off with a DNF 🤦🏻‍♀️

It was just very long and repetitive and I’d much rather just stick to WandaVision. 

starlightcatherine's review

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.25

Although I enjoyed a good amount of this while reading this, looking back and collecting my thoughts made me realize how all other the place it was.

k_aldrich's review

3.0

It was fun to read about Wanda and Vision and see some of the plot lines that are playing out in the show. It's definitely old style Marvel comics which I'm not as big a fan of, but the story line is still interesting.

morgcxn's review

4.0

"the scarlet witch is never helpless"

chelsldav9's review

adventurous emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

emmyn_erin's review

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

This was the first set of comic books that i actually sat down to read, so I don't have much to reflect on other than that i thought it was fun.

alicea's review

emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

After watching WandaVision I found myself wondering just what differences there were between the show and the comics that inspired it and so this is where I chose to begin. I didn't realize going into it (and I should have based on the title) that it was going to span an entire year's worth of holidays/significant events. (They even cover tax season which I found very amusing.) If like me you have never read any of the Marvel comics at all then this is a really interesting (and very confusing) place to begin. For one thing, there's a whole host of characters that I had never heard of and the assumption is that as a reader you're very familiar with all of them (luckily they do tell you which issues to go back and read for more info). So a lot of the backstory was unknown to me and at times this was a hindrance to my understanding but I got the hang of it after a while and found myself thinking of these two characters in a very different light from the cinematic universe. For one thing, Scarlet Witch is a mutant and a witch in this series while the Vision has recently discovered that while he's a synthetic being at his core he's a human. The central idea of this volume is that Vision and the Scarlet Witch have decided that they want a different kind of life but this proves rather harder in practice than in theory to accomplish.

Overall, it was a pretty fun series. It's definitely a product of its time so there are for sure some outdated concepts and references. The art was *chef's kiss* and the sass gave me LIFE.  

PS Pietro is the worst. I have no idea if he has a redemption arc later on down the line but ugh I couldn't stand him.

harlequingemma's review

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0