Well, now, that was unsettling. But really good.

"They seemed nice."I have no particular interest in Marvel’s world of the Avengers, but this one surprised me. Takes place in Alexandria, Virginia, where Avenger Vision moves with his wife and twins. Suburbia. Welcome to the neighborhood, toasters! A darkly satirical commentary on contemporary American society through a domestic comic! Here’s two key quotes that may get at the philosophy and somewhat robotic tone of it all from Vision, who spouts this kind of thing and in this kind of tone throu...

Also available on the WondrousBooks blog. From the moment I started reading The Vision, I felt that something was creeping in on me. I knew that this was mostly supposed to be a dark comedy, at least from most of what I had read or heard about it. However, that was not the feeling that I got from the volume itself.First and foremost, there is something that I really enjoyed: the ominous chill running through the entire volume. From the very beginning, I felt slightly disturbed by the characte

I like the idea of a volume about Vision and his family. I don't think it was all that well done. I don't know the character all that well, so maybe it is. The vision is their own family unit. They are fairly normal but school is tough for the kids. Villains do attack the house at some point. Vision is out with the Avengers saving the world much of the time too. All the pressure of having a family on present here and then some.It's not a bad volume, and it's not a great volume. I might read the

I get into some spoilsies later in the review so I guess “be warned”. The short version of this review is that the book is overrated, boring and poorly written and I wouldn’t recommend it. Ok, on with the review proper! The Vision suddenly has a family! His wife is Virginia, his son is Vin and his daughter is Viv (oh the cute alliteration) and they reside at 616 Hickory Branch Lane (geddit, like Marvel-616, the main Marvel universe). Not a lot happens for most of the book until something does an...

You know the Vision? That red android from the Avengers, son of Ultron? That guy from the latest Avengers movie? Well, he decided to create himself a happy family, and it's gone very, very wrong. Yeah, I thought that premise was kinda dumb, too. Who knew this comic would be such a revelation.I am torn between this and Doctor Strange as Marvel's best new series of the year. This brilliant, creepy, haunting story is so good, I can't wait for the next issue every month. I would tell more about the

When Tom King came onto the comic scene in the last decade, he was definitely doing something new with the superhero genre. Deconstructing in all new ways, albeit while the whole 'dark reboot' thing still being a cliché, but even then his take was original. This time, a familial and almost sitcomesque suburban setting with which to explore these characters... In the Vision--which might as well be known as the Visions--the MCU movie star builds himself a family with kids who go to high school and...

“I Have Said It. Therefore It Is Confirmed.”Whoa, that was fun! I mean, what a character, just listen to the guy: “To assert as truth that which has no meaning is the core mission of humanity.” Or: “Hmmm, yes, this is typical of most human endeavors. They change but they do not change.” Or: “The pursuit of a set purpose by logical means is the way of tyranny... The pursuit of an unobtainable purpose by absurd means is the way of freedom. This is my vision of the future. Of our future.” I hear ya...

The Vision builds himself a family and moves to the suburbs with them. Things are great until they aren't.After reading the first issue of The Vision via Marvel Unlimited, I knew I wanted to read the rest. Little Worse than a Man collects the first six issues.The Vision and his family experience prejudice from their human neighbors, Viv and Vin's classmates, and later, the cops. Virginia lies to the Vision once and it snowballs, sending their quiet suburban life out of control. I saw someone ref...

The hype is real!Aside from a select few comics I've switched from floppies to trade waiting in the wake of Marvel's Secret Wars. The comics are a bit more affordable in collection, and I don't feel as obligated to continue reading a series in trades if the first one isn't very good. But there's been a few series whose near unanimous praise has me itching to dig in, Ta-Nehisi Coates' Black Panther and Tom King's The Vision. I'd heard the series was an amalgam of Breaking Bad and the wackiest stu...

A lot darker in nature than I thought, but a well told story none the less. Lovely artwork, the story reminded me of a horror movie, but I can't quite think which one. Maybe the shining, when the wife has realised that her husband is crazy. It provokes some interesting debates about AI as well. Exterminate!

Tom King’s Vision is literary sci-fi, dark and satirical, with sharp commentary on race and humanity, life and death, in a Marvel super hero comic. Extraordinary. "For a moment, as she listened to her family argue and laugh, Virginia felt content. She belonged here. They belonged here. Everything in the end would be good. This moment lasted 1.72 seconds."

As the concept of artificial intelligence is becoming more of a reality in our current day and age, it is an idea that though has been used over the decades of science-fiction, the more relevant it becomes the more we feel fearful towards it. This is perfectly summed up in the first volume of Tom King’s solo comic about Marvel’s “synthezoid” superhero.Although he was created to be a weapon by the evil robot Ultron, the Vision’s greatest desire is to be human and what’s more human than family? Mu...

Whoa. Nothing is creepier than the 'burbs.This seems to have fairly positive reviews, but there are those that thought this was pretty boring. And I can kinda understand where they're coming from. It's a slow moving story about androids. Sorry..synthezoids? Whatever. At any rate, I get why this might not be some people's cuppa. Also? Hype. Anything that gets too over-hyped tends to be a letdown to me. And this one has tons of rave reviews. So, there's that, as well.Lower your expectations. <--th...

Has the feel of a horror or thriller movie using Stephen King's common narrative device of alluding to things ending badly in the future. Covering up a mistake slowly snowballs out of control. Some people will say it moves to slow, but I thought the plot moved at the right speed. Tom King's best written work to date. Gabriel Hernandez Walta's art has grown in leaps and bounds. His style fits very well with this book.

They say that good fences make good neighbors, but what if your neighbor was an android with the ability to manipulate the density of his body so that he could simply phase through the fence?Vision decides he wants a family so he creates some more synthezoids to function as his wife and two children and moves to the suburbs of DC to lead a more ‘normal’ life. However, some of the neighbors are worried about what a family of robots will do the property values, and it turns out that his family hav...

The Vision tries to slice off a bit of Americana home life for himself, only things don't go entirely as planned.Interesting concept, and the last few panels were just exactly what we don't want in an overpowered AI-made-flesh. I thought it could have been more effective in a smaller space though, it felt like it plodded a bit, just to build up the ((gasp)) at the end.

"I am the astro-creep, a demolition-style hell American freak yeah . . . More human than human!" -- White ZombieLittle Worse Than a Man was a breath of fresh air after reading a handful of bland, not particularly memorable graphic novels in the last week. Part of the uniqueness was its dark, sort of dreadful atmosphere -- it was like the twisting together of a Twilight Zone episode with a Richard Matheson short story, with a pinch of certain David Lynch films hinting at the evil lurking undernea...

Holy Crap, I think I just P'd on my NP. Or rather, the reverse. Maybe a little phase-out.I don't know why I didn't read this when it first came out. It looked funny. It looked interesting. I mean, I never felt COMPELLED to read anything with Vision in it. Not really. But just looking at this cover, seeing the nominations and reviews it got, I really SHOULD have picked it up sooner.Well, color me shamed. I LOVED this. Super smart, super cray-cray, and with a big fat mirror held up to us all, prov...

Youtube Video Review - https://youtu.be/CK5UQwuwwbMEvery once in a blue moon you read a graphic novel that blows away any expectations no matter how much good you heard about it. Earlier this year it was American Alien. The Vision is the second Graphic Novel made this year to blow me the FUCK away! Vision is building a home for his family. His wife, his kids, all he's trying to do is be normal. It's simple, for humans we try our best to achieve great things. For Vision he's saved the world a bun...