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The Vision
488 pages
A poignant, foreboding comic that explores the tragic and devastating cost of an artificial being's obsession with domestic normalcy.
What it feels like
Reading this celebrated comic feels like watching a slow-motion collision between earnest domestic longing and inevitable tragedy. It immerses the reader in a poignant, foreboding atmosphere where a desperate, unrelenting obsession to achieve an ordinary family life hums with underlying tension. The narrative pace accelerates as the quiet desire for humanity twists into devastating conflict, blending the visual storytelling of science fiction with the heavy emotional weight of a domestic drama. The style balances quiet explorations of identity and destiny with the escalating dread of a looming confrontation. It is a perfect fit for readers who are drawn to character-driven stories that peel back the layers of artificial life to reveal the raw, heartbreaking complexities of what it means to be human.
- Mood
- foreboding
- melancholic
- tense
- poignant
- Tone
- ominous
- tragic
- earnest
- intense
- Pace
- propulsive
- Themes
- the desire for humanity · the weight of destiny · domestic tragedy · the illusion of normalcy
- The writing
- A visually and narratively intense blend of quiet domesticity and escalating science-fiction dread.
- The arc
- Moves from a hopeful, earnest pursuit of domestic normalcy into a tense and devastating descent into tragedy.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave emotionally heavy, character-driven comics that explore the dark side of the desire to be ordinary.
Content notes
- tragedy
- family conflict
- violence
About the book
One of the most celebrated comic books of the century, collected in full alongside an expansive array of special features! 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 as a weapon. The place where he first rebelled against his given destiny and imagined that he could be more - that he could be a man.
There, he builds them. A wife, Virginia. 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. Behold the Visions! Theirs is a story of togetherness and tragedy - one that will send the Android Avenger into a devastating confrontation with Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
Description from Open Library.
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