Tom King manages to take one of the less popular Avengers characters and uses him to tell one of the most poignant superhero books released recently. He dissects the character, finds the thing that really defines him (his desire to be human), and turns it into a 12-issue tragedy that shows what happens when The Vision decides to build a synthetic family of his own, in an effort to set himself up with a normal suburban life. It's a darkly comic, tragic, and complex look at what it means to be hum...

You can find my review on my blog by clicking here.Sometimes you just want to belong, to be part of something bigger, to be normal when everything else hints that you are not. While life presents itself as an open playground where one can fully actualize himself with the proper means, it is the pursuit of happiness that remains integral to achieving contentment. For a synthezoid created to destroy and not embrace life, happiness might just be the attainment of normalcy, to be human, and to relis...

Hands down easily the best thing I've read from King.* King takes a now classic character and in a era where people trying to be creative are destroying the classic characters and replacing them, King does something different. He deepens the character by creating new characters around him. He doubles down on what has made Vision compelling and different than other characters. He builds on his history and fans who know his story will have the deepest understanding of the story. Vision has always

Read as Little Worse Than A Man & Little Better than a Beast

He's only a robot, after all. We knew that; we saw him born, we saw who fathered him. It was we who named him though, his true parents. We are his true assemblers, we who brought him into our family. We watched him grow, oh so quickly. A robot grows up fast. We saw him long for acceptance and search for meaning, we saw him find love and crave family. We thought we were his family. Much like a human, a robot is designed to protect his family, and will seek vengeance upon those that would hurt the...

The Vision by Tom King was simply amazing. When it first came out I didn't know if I'd be interested in this or not. I stand corrected.The Vision has created himself a synthetic wife, son and daughter. They move into the burbs of D.C. in an attempt to be "normal". But this book challanges what is "normal". Without giving away spoilers- events occur where the Visions find themselves on the defensive as the children try to integrrate in school, the parents try to integrate with neighbors and the V...

This came to me (as a gift from a former student), with a strong recommendation, ... and I thought it lived up to its billing. I read the two graphic novels (both volumes, collecting the original issues 1-12) back-to-back, and I thoroughly enjoyed them.The two books together comprise a surprisingly cohesive and poignant family-and-friends soap opera, or, maybe more accurately, a super-hero (or, I dunno, AI/cyborg) Shakespearean tragedy, ... almost the kind of thing I'd expect from Neil Gaiman .....

This was a re-read and a buddy read with Grim over at Booklikes. It was just as good this time as it was the first. All the stars!

”To assert as truth that which has no meaning is the core mission of humanity.”Tom King has always been a hit-or-miss writer for me, as I either absolutely love or loathe his work, and this thankfully falls into the former category, as King weaves an almost horror-like story about family and fitting in. This was a story I meant to read over the course of a couple weeks, but I ended up reading the first half one day and the second half another.Really strong story, with some solid twists I didn’t

I read this for book club, and it may very well be my favorite read since I joined this group at my local comic shop. Until now, I never really had any interest in Vision or Scarlet Witch as characters, but this 12-issue series changed that! At least as far as my handsome toaster man is concerned. Tom King does something really incredible in this series, making the less-interesting or varied character in the Marvel universe and making him such a complex and wonderful character that is not only g...

We...are..out of Time If there was ever a Tom King or a Vision story people unanimously love its this one. Like holy crap this book has something crazy like 4.59 stars on the consensus score. And it’s not hard to see why. I thoroughly enjoyed the shit outta this one but I feel kinda bad saying that I don’t love it. But then again, Tom King has written bullcrap like Batman I am Suicide so I cant feel to bad. This is a stunningly mature book and an amazing standalone character study for the Vis

An absolute pleasure to read this. It is a masterpiece. I've been reading comics since I was 8 years old and this is probably the best I've ever read. Pure genius.

So I came to this pretty late. Almost embarrassingly late. I read it after hearing all the hype behind, all the while wondering if I really wanted to read a solo Vision book. I mean do I really? But I love Marvel books that do something different. The push the boundaries of the medium a bit. Hawkeye is a perfect example of that. And so is The Vision.It is actually fantastic. An android attempting to have a family wife while also having a break down. There's so much in this to like. The craft beh...

I've itched for the chance to read the completed Vision by King, Walta, and company. I've read the occasional issue from the run, but I felt I would have a better experience binge-reading the entire 12 issues; comics in the time of Netflix.King made a made for himself in comics with the Vision and his own creation with M. Gerads, the Sheriff of Babylon. I made the mistake of missing out on Vision when it came out. This would be his one and only Marvel work for the foreseeable future. His recent

Loved this.People are going to say things like "heartbreaking" about it, and I'm not certain that's too far off the mark. It is awesome, it is deep, and it is melancholy and downright sad. Again, Marvel cuts someone loose and lets them explore what it means to be this sort of person, and what being a person really means. What it demands. The conceit that the Vision moved out to the suburbs and started a family seemed silly to me and I avoided this, but it isn't, and I shouldn't have. This is bea...

Saw the cover, knew we were reading it for book club. After a weird Monday at work, I laid in bed with my Maltipoo and ripped off the shrink wrap and was like I hope this is good.One question- did he kill everyone?Ok.This like blew my mind. The story, the artwork, the history, I loves me some Scarlet Witch, I mean this is a real winner and a testimony to the comic genre evolving in the marvel universe, catching up to what DC did with Vertigo like decades ago. But what a treat.Haunting.

Finally! It has been a while since I read a legitimately good superhero comic. And here this comes out of sheer praise. I was hesitant. But damn if I didn't enjoy the hell out of it. A superhero story about family. In fact the superhero stuff is mainly prior history since the main focus is what it is like to do whatever you can to protect your family. What lengths you are willing to go and if you are willing to put work responsibilities above family and vice versa. Tom King, I'm so excited to re...

This is a masterpiece. Vision, the android member of the Avengers, builds his own family in his quest to become more human (and to get over his separation from Scarlet Witch). As anyone who has been a member of a family (all of us) knows, it's not always easy. The members of his family struggle to find their place in the world, often with disastrous results. We often hear people say, "I would do anything to protect my family." This story explores the limits of that expression. Overall, the story...

I was underwhelmed by this hardcover collecting the Eisner award-winning maxi-series. Perhaps the tried and true trope of an android exploring ways to be human is also a tried and tired trope. The Vision builds his own family and plants roots in the suburbs. Kids go to school and the wife is a homemaker. But soon enough things go awry and people get killed (both with intent and without) and the story goes down a dark, farcical path that frankly did not keep me interested at all. This hardcover c...

That Was Totally Unexpected.I loved It, it is Just as the Back Cover Say " A Superhero Story Like no Other "The Story Was Amazing and Tom King's Lines Was Deep and Visionary *no Pun Intended* Glad That I Picked this Up For My First Tom King's Read