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A review by unladylike
The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man by Tom King
5.0
This is a damn near perfect horror comic. That's right, you might notice I'm not shelving this with "superheroes," and it's surprisingly not even a family or high school drama, despite some of the plot points and elements coming from those genres. Issue #1 alone accomplishes so much quality story-telling across a broad spectrum that I had to pace myself carefully and re-read text captions throughout the whole collection.
The Vision by Tom King is a story based on real-world and contemporary bigotry against POC, immigrants, and synthezoids. Every panel is laid out and illustrated deliberately and in a manner Neil Gaiman, David Lynch, or Stephen King would likely applaud. We the readers are given myriad reasons to sympathize with the protagonist family of misfits, just trying to exist with some semblance of normalcy, even though they were brought into being through science, and hold power and potential far beyond anyone else in their environment.
Like a good horror story, the violence is suspended and comes as a shock. I gasped when I realized this was not the kind of comic I thought it was going to be. And then the quality in writing and visual storytelling just continues strong through the finish of #6. We are given ominous tidbits of information about the future which serve well to increase the anticipation and tremulous heartbreak.
I'm going to have to read this multiple times, and own it, because I haven't read a comic this good, and certainly not a horror story of this caliber, in some time.
The Vision by Tom King is a story based on real-world and contemporary bigotry against POC, immigrants, and synthezoids. Every panel is laid out and illustrated deliberately and in a manner Neil Gaiman, David Lynch, or Stephen King would likely applaud. We the readers are given myriad reasons to sympathize with the protagonist family of misfits, just trying to exist with some semblance of normalcy, even though they were brought into being through science, and hold power and potential far beyond anyone else in their environment.
Like a good horror story, the violence is suspended and comes as a shock. I gasped when I realized this was not the kind of comic I thought it was going to be. And then the quality in writing and visual storytelling just continues strong through the finish of #6. We are given ominous tidbits of information about the future which serve well to increase the anticipation and tremulous heartbreak.
I'm going to have to read this multiple times, and own it, because I haven't read a comic this good, and certainly not a horror story of this caliber, in some time.