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4.47 AVERAGE
4.47 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A masterpiece. So beautiful, so heartbreaking, so thought-provoking. One of the best comics I've read. It tells the story of the android avenger Vision, having made himself a wife and twin teenage children androids, moving into a normal DC suburb and trying to live a normal life. We are told in captions in the first issue, from a narrator who knows the ending, that this will not go well. Writer Tom King's elevator pitch was "Breaking Bad Vision", and it does not disappoint. The layering of caption, dialogue, art and color create pure poetry on the page. The use of cyclical and recurring dialogue and themes, along with the aforementioned future-narrator really give the series a cinematic quality, a '50s domestic dystopian noir. The entire 12 issue series is illustrated by Gabriel Hernandez Walta, who did the majority of Magneto's solo series from a few years ago. It is very different than most superhero comics, darker, more real without being photographic in any way. And I can not stress the value of Jordie Bellaire's colors. She is perhaps my favorite colorist, and this series shows why. It is not that she is flashy or over the top, nor simply placid and realistic. She knows how to set a mood and show it slooooowly change. A special shoutout to the fill-in artist who did the series' midpoint #7 issue, which was full of flashbacks to the Vision's relationship to the Scarlet Witch. It was very well done, tied in thematically so well, and gave a slightly different feel but not too different.
A major comparison struck me often while reading this book. It reminded me at many points of the best Issac Asimov robot stories. Stories where robots push at their limits, trying to quantify the difference between robot and human. As Rainbow Rowell puts it in her introduction to the book,
"At first, The Vision seems like a story about how impossible it is for a machine to be human. Only pain can come of it - pain and bloodshed.
But at some point, it becomes a story about how impossible it is for any of us to be human. What is life? Pain and bloodshed, and going through the motions."
A major comparison struck me often while reading this book. It reminded me at many points of the best Issac Asimov robot stories. Stories where robots push at their limits, trying to quantify the difference between robot and human. As Rainbow Rowell puts it in her introduction to the book,
"At first, The Vision seems like a story about how impossible it is for a machine to be human. Only pain can come of it - pain and bloodshed.
But at some point, it becomes a story about how impossible it is for any of us to be human. What is life? Pain and bloodshed, and going through the motions."
An amazing entry into comics, this explores a premise that isn't too unusual in Sci-Fy, androids wishing to be human, and it predictably goes wrong.
However, the use of characters many readers know and recognize, but written in a different light makes the story come alive. While this is a marvel story, it reads and is drawn like a science fiction master piece. Color is subtly used to promote certain moods and feelings.
Comic panes end up works of art, able to provoke emotional responses from the readers, without the use of any speech bubbles.
The story itself in many ways is a tragedy, but the journey of the Visions is also an exploration of humanity, and what it means to be human.
If you are hoping for a story filled with heroics, action, and humor, this is not the story for you. However, if you want a story that is filled with subtlety, emotion, discussions of right and wrong, of humanity, and the things that make us human, this is the story for you.
Despite depicting a bleak turn of events, the story has a combination of dark humor and creepiness that I loved.
Despite all these amazing things, I felt like it ended very abruptly, especially after some of the foreshadowing earlier in the story. It was still a good and satisfying ending, just a little abrupt.
However, the use of characters many readers know and recognize, but written in a different light makes the story come alive. While this is a marvel story, it reads and is drawn like a science fiction master piece. Color is subtly used to promote certain moods and feelings.
Comic panes end up works of art, able to provoke emotional responses from the readers, without the use of any speech bubbles.
The story itself in many ways is a tragedy, but the journey of the Visions is also an exploration of humanity, and what it means to be human.
If you are hoping for a story filled with heroics, action, and humor, this is not the story for you. However, if you want a story that is filled with subtlety, emotion, discussions of right and wrong, of humanity, and the things that make us human, this is the story for you.
Despite depicting a bleak turn of events, the story has a combination of dark humor and creepiness that I loved.
Despite all these amazing things, I felt like it ended very abruptly, especially after some of the foreshadowing earlier in the story. It was still a good and satisfying ending, just a little abrupt.
A Marvel limited series very nearly on par with such masterpieces as Watchmen and V for Vendetta.
challenging
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Unlike other Marvel comics I've read. Quiet even when violent. Like many great tragedies, the inevitability of one action to the next felt wholly rationale yet simultaneously mad (and maddening). Glad I picked this volume up.
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
sad
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:
Complicated
Deserves all the accolades it received. This book is completely masterful - writing, art, colors, and lettering. This edition also includes many scripts, layouts, and rough pencils, showing the reader the process from start to finish, which is interesting.
Desde mi desconocimiento del universo Marvel me ha resultado un cómic interesante. Lejos de la espectacularidad del mundo superheroico aquí tenemos una historia más íntima que gira alrededor de la familia Vision.
Me gustó bastante más el primer tomo de los dos que incluye este volumen, quizás porque es donde se va desarrollando la situación que el segundo resuelve. O también porque ese narrador que va puntualizando la narración en casi cada viñeta ha acabado cansándome.
Me gustó bastante más el primer tomo de los dos que incluye este volumen, quizás porque es donde se va desarrollando la situación que el segundo resuelve. O también porque ese narrador que va puntualizando la narración en casi cada viñeta ha acabado cansándome.