I read Tom King's run on Mr. Miracle not long ago and wondered what all the fuss was about. This one, however, is genuinely good. It reminded me of how good King's writing on The Sheriff of Babylon was. The Vision, like The Sheriff of Babylon, truly deserved the praise it received.
The Vision, by the way, indirectly led to the Marvel television series WandaVision. Kevin Feige was certainly aware of The Vision before production on the television show began, and he even forwarded copies of Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta's work to Jac Schaeffer, the head writer of the show. The Vision doesn't deal with alternate realities or television in any way, but Wanda appears often in the comic, and "Mrs. Vision" could easily be a stand-in for Wanda.
The Vision is set around The Avengers favorite android (or "synthezoid") and his attempt to lead a normal, everyday, domestic life with a wife and two kids. Mrs. Vision, his wife, has been created from the Scarlet Witch's brainwaves, and his two kids have been created from a combination of his brainwaves and those of his wife. Their play at domesticity begins innocently enough, but their home life begins to unravel as local prejudice and individuals from Vision's past begin to emerge.
The author does a neat job of tying things together at the end, and I applaud both his skill as a writer and Gabriel Hernandez Walta's restraint as an artist. It's a good, original story all the way through, and it avoids some of the flaws that made King's Mr. Miracle problematic for me.
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