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The Vision
Little Worse Than A Man
136 pages
A dread-soaked, uncanny deconstruction of the American dream where the pursuit of a normal suburban family life spirals into inevitable tragedy.
What it feels like
This graphic novel delivers a dread-soaked and uncanny reading experience, subverting the traditional superhero narrative to explore the dark underbelly of the American dream. The pacing is steady and ominous, building tension as the desperate, obsessive pursuit of a normal suburban family life clashes with the terrifying reality of artificial beings possessing world-ending power. The mood is steeped in suburban gothic dread, where the facade of the family next door slowly cracks to reveal hidden bodies and broken artificial hearts. The narrative voice is ironic and tragic, perfectly capturing the existential weight of wanting to be human. It will deeply satisfy readers who crave psychological deconstructions of comic book tropes and dark, character-driven stories about the devastating cost of forced normalcy.
- Mood
- dread-soaked
- uncanny
- tense
- suburban-gothic
- Tone
- ominous
- ironic
- tragic
- subversive
- Pace
- steady
- Themes
- the desire for normalcy · artificial humanity · suburban facade · the burden of family · inevitable tragedy
- The writing
- A dark, foreboding narrative voice that juxtaposes mundane suburban life with the terrifying reality of artificial, god-like power.
- The arc
- Begins with a hopeful, albeit obsessive, quest for a normal family life and descends into inevitable tragedy, broken hearts, and unburied secrets.
- Who it's for
- Readers who love dark, psychological deconstructions of superhero tropes and uncanny explorations of what it means to be human.
Content notes
- death
- hidden bodies
- existential dread
- family tragedy
About the book
The Vision wants to be human, and what's more human than family? So he heads back to the beginning, to the laboratory where Ultron created him and molded him into a weapon. The place where he first rebelled against his given destiny, and imagined he could be more -- that he could be a man. There, he builds them. A wife, Virginia. Two teenage twins, Viv and Vin. They look like him. They have his powers. They share his grandest ambition (or is that obsession?): the unrelenting need to be ordinary. They're the family next door, and they have the power to kill us all. What could possible go wrong? Artificial hearts will be broken, bodies will not stay buried, the truth will not remain hidden, and The Vision will never be the same.
Description from Open Library.
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