A suitably strange, eerie, and sad end to a surprisingly good series.

As The Vision's perfect family continues to unravel, Victor Mancha comes to town to spend some time with them. However, he has ulterior motives...Tom King's run on The Vision comes to an end. We finally find out who the source of Vivian's brain patterns were, the source of some odd behavior on the part of the Vision over the course of the series, and whether or not The Vision is an ass-kicking machine that can take on the entire Avengers roster.Vin's Shakespeare obsession foreshadows quite a few...

This is amazing in the way that it weaves together the weird history of Vision along with this new story of family and existence to come up with something completely original and heartbreaking.

The conclusion to Vision's gothicish family horror story turned out to be far more readable and complex than I originally thought it would be. <--and I suppose it's not really gothic or horror-y, but it still felt that way to me.There's this slow build-up to something you just know will be terrifying and sad, and it all unfolds within the confines of a picturesque suburbia. And let's face it, nothing is creepier than the 'burbs. I thought all the characters were wonderfully layered, which just a...

Portia: When he is best he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst he is little better than a beast. --Merchant of VeniceWow, this volume, this series, ended after 12 issues and 2 volumes, alas. And this Tom King, whose Sheriff of Babylon and The Vision I have read in the same two week time period. King is a fine storyteller, by my lights, and especially a fine writer of tight dialogue. And in this series, he creates his own perspective about a Marvel superhero comic and that world. A...

Vision’s brother Victor visits but brings complications with him, forcing Vision to make some hard choices about his family. The Vision is one of those books that occasionally crops up like Saga that everyone goes gay for but totally baffles me as to its appeal. The second and final book in this series is a slight improvement over the first but it’s still only mediocre at best. I couldn’t get past how contrived the events of the first book were. Virginia does things that shouldn’t have been esca...

This makes me excited for the new Wanda Vision show on Disney plus. I hear some of the story plots will come from this little run. Vision lives with his family, who were programed to have all the normal problems families have. They love each other very much. The problem comes when Visions son is killed by his uncle, also a robot. The story gets very good and you wonder if the Avengers would be able to take down Vision if they had too. I'm sure they would find a way.I love the twist at the end. I...

Note to self: do NOT read this series when you’re feeling even remotely depressed, anxious, or otherwise less than delighted by life, because it is DARK. Instead, eat cookies, pet puppies, and tap dance across a rainbow, ideally without falling through and smashing into the ground at terminal velocity because OUCH. Trust me—you’ll thank me. I mean you. Whatever.That said, Tom King is so good at this kind of heavy, psychological, introspective take on superheroes. I think I liked Mister Miracle j...

Although he is predominately writing for DC including his current run of Batman, Tom King made a stop at Marvel where he has now made one of the best runs for the publisher in recent memory, albeit twelve issues. Continuing on with what happened in the last volume, everyone’s favourite “synthezoid” is trying to maintain the safety of his artificial family, despite the Avengers’ fear of him razing the world.From its beginning, the series has acknowledged the Vision’s history (with the occasional

Just too sad in the end. Tom King was certainly doing something different with the Vision, but I wish there was more of a happy ending. Not just because I am corny when it comes to the superhero genre, but because of the mixed messaging. I get that tragedy can be smart storytelling (if not overused these days), but the way everybody dies seems to confirm the view of the bigoted neighbors who were against living among the androids. I dunno, maybe the lesson is that the whole American suburban fam...

I don't have much to say, except that this is the best Marvel comic since Fraction's Hawkeye, and one of the best comics of the year. And definitely Tom King's best work to date. Absolutely brilliant stuff.

Such a good book... more pathos than really a superhero story... the story of Vision and his new robot family veers towards an inevitable confrontation between Vision determined to protect his new family no matter what the cost and Worlds mightiest heroes, whom Vision used to call friends and allies... concludes one of the best superhero comics of the last few years

REVIEW: The Vision Vol. 2: Little Better Than a BeastThis volume actually gives us a quick crash course of Wanda and Vision's love story, which I’m excited to explore more of in the show. But once again, Vision and his family are the best part of this run. I feel as if I'm a part of their family now. (Little Tony Vision.)The art takes a big step forward, or maybe it’s just the beautiful one-pagers, which I’m always a sucker for. Plus, we get some Avengers action, which is as amazing as it sounds...

"KILLER" book, but VERY dark.Volume 2, and the end of King's short run on the groundbreaking Vision, expands on the Vision pathos and his past. We see Vision with the Scarlet Witch, whose personality and memories became Vivian, much to her distress. And the introduction of Vision's brother, Ultron's son, Victor Mancha, an android with a dark purpose, is the catalyst to send the Vision Family spiraling further out of control. Tom King oddly reminds me of Cormac McCarthy, but he tries much harder

The only thing from Tom King that has impressed me until his run on Batman. The stand alone issue flashing back on Vision's relationship with the Scarlet Witch may be the best single Marvel comic I've read in the last few years. The rest of the book is pretty dour, missing the dark humor of the first book. Things continue to escalate to the point where Vision is fated to destroy the Avengers which culminates in a nice twist. It's a shame King's Grayson run hasn't been nearly as good as this seri...

This twelve issue run of The Vision has got to be one of the smartest, most vicious, absolutely brilliant runs in comic history.Think I'm joking? Read it. Come back to me. Comics rarely make me cry. A few have. Some are really awesome in other ways. This one is pure tragedy masquerading as vicious comedy, irony, and satire that neatly sidesteps the very idea of satire because the Vision and his family are SO FAR OUTSIDE, looking in, that they actually become everything that we are.People. Gettin...

I wanted to love this as much as the first. I didn't. However, saying that, it's still filled with a ton of great moments. Let's start with the fantastic issue about Scarlet and Vision. Might be one of my favorite issues of the entire run. Heartbreaking, sad, and TRUE. Relationships can be bumpy as fuck, and watching a reflection of that with V is soooo sad. I also love the issue when the Avengers come into play. The way Vision acts and does things just goes to show you how important and valuabl...

". . . where nothing can possibly go worng!" -- tagline for the original Westworld filmBut things continue to go awfully 'worng' in the conclusion Little Better Than a Beast. Vision's family situation spirals out of control (wife Virginia - "That is . . . good. Good. Good. Good. G-G-G . . ." Oh boy) as they try to keep a lid on their secrets and maintain the facade of an 'average' family from the 'burbs. A timely substance abuse allegory was even briefly dropped in and did not seem heavy-handed

A worthy, if not entirely satisfactory, conclusion to The Vision maxi-series. I really, really enjoyed the first volume's moody, dread-filled, dark take on the Marvel Universe's favourite synthezoid. It felt like an independent-publisher take on a classic Marvel character. However, as I feared in my review of the first volume, the imminent entrance of the rest of the spandex- and armour-clad super-folk does put a bit of a damper on the second half of this series. I think that all faults laid at

"In sooth, I know not why I am so sad..." - First line of The Merchant of Venice. "It all just goes through me!" - Viv VisionI have been wanting to review this graphic novel (and I mean this volume and The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man) in its totality for months now. My top 3 if not top read of 2016. I said in in my review of the first volume that Tom King's The Vision was on its way to becoming one of the greatest graphic novels of all time and now I will say that, in my opinion, i...