I often say don't buy into the hype but when it comes to Tom King's Vision maybe you should. WOOF
WOOF! Hey guys, it's me, Marcus AKA The Maddogg and we're back with another video! Written by
Tom King and Illustrated primarily by Gabriel Hernandez Walta, the first issue of Vision was
published by Marvel Comics in November of 2015. with the 12th and final issue being released in
October of 2016. and Visions now a family man despite being one of the most powerful Avengers
he just wants an ordinary life complete with a family that he built for himself but when
one blip in the code causes a chain of events that he couldn't prevent will Vision realize
that human life has challenges that being a superhero can't solve looking at the art now
and if I'm being brutally honest I know I'm gonna get some backlash for saying this but I
wasn't a massive fan of the style that they had Invasion but at the same time I do think it was
a great match for this story what I mean by that is that I'm very unlikely to pick up a title just
because of the fact that Walter's working on it but even if somebody like Jim Lee or Ryan
otley was working on Vision I don't think it would have matched the tone as well and the reason why I
think Walter's style suited Vision was because it was so different from what you used to seeing in
a Marvel comic he didn't feel overly familiar for something from the big two Publishers and I love
that because it completely threw me off guard the only sort of asterisk to that is that I do
feel like it could have been a bit more refined I was comfortable with a sort of flat Loop but if
you often looked into the background characters would just be missing a face or they'd just have
eyebrows and a line of mouth and nothing else and especially because when I think of vision
I think of somebody who's always got Clarity on situations it seems a bit odd that that would be
the case it is softer with its Line work and more pastel with its colors and works mostly
in a flat 2D plane at the start of the series everything felt upright and at the angle that
every sitcom would be filmed at but the longer it went on and the more that the story unfolded the
perspective would change things will be shown at an angle or a top-down View and I just love
the subtlety in that but my biggest problem is that the Simplicity lacks excitement don't get me
wrong this isn't a story that needs excitement because it is a soybean almost kind of like a
psychological Thriller but there are still a few scenes throughout this run where there's
a fight going on and it just felt a bit lifeless ironic given the subject matter and if that was an
intentional Choice then fair play did a great job but just doesn't exactly help the action to jump
off the page but what I noticed the RTX sellout was Pace the dialogue did help with that but you
knew which scenes to drag out and give more time to even if it could have just been summarized in
one page it knew when to zero in on a specific reaction and went to bring it back up in later
panels and it would often do that thing where it would reveal its importance over time and I love
when a book can do that one issue in the middle is done by Michael Walsh and admittedly I didn't
notice too much of a difference there was enough there so that you could tell it was set during a
different time period but it didn't feel like it was a completely different comic which is kind of
what you want I'm not saying that as a negative for some reason though they are overall just
reminded me a lot of modern genre meter Junior and I think that's probably the reason why I wasn't
allowing myself to enjoy it that much and yeah that might feel like a bit of an unfair criticism
but something that people often forget is that art is subjective because I have read reviews where
they really did enjoy this style but for me I reckon if this would have been an independent book
I might have been a bit more forgiving which are now sounds completely contradictory from some of
the things that I've already said but that's just the way I felt when I was reading it and at first
I was disappointed because I missed out on the oversized hardcore video but now that I've read
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as many times as you like I don't know about anybody else but did this entire series feel
like an episode of Black Mirror normally with any series it comes with a lot of Acclaim I'm really
skeptical going into it because I don't want to be disappointed because it didn't live up to the hype
and then all of a sudden I'm saying something just to be controversial but when it comes to vision
I love this thinking about the series overall I just loved it never paused the story to give a
subtext or allowed the deeper meaning to simmer or disappear when the plot began to ramp up it was a
perfect balance of both and I think it's because it knew exactly how long it needed to be looking
back on the title as a whole it's difficult to see how this series could have been any shorter and at
the same time I never felt like it was dragging and it was great because the scenes that needed
time to develop got that time away rushed it still had plenty of momentum throughout in the
end of each issue really packed a punch this also made me really appreciate a slow being it
doesn't always need to be action straight out of the gate which is something that I do often
praise when I'm doing a review time was taken to build up the premise because it had Intrigue from
the beginning and where I feel like this title succeeds where other similar Concepts might fail
is that the Intrigue really had a payoff there was a concept and an execution rather than just being
a concept that they kind of just explain a bit more and one thing I've never shied away from on
this channel is the fact that I am a dumb reader which has often limited the enjoyment that I can
get from certain titles I'm the guy that it's just reading a book to be entertained I don't need a
philosophical crisis every time I open up an issue but because vision's story was so intertwined with
the deeper meaning and I cared about the plot that he was telling me it made me want to connect those
dots for myself and yet it might sound like I'm giving this glowing unanimous praise but
strap him because it's going to continue because I loved Vision in this if a guy who just wanted this
normal Suburban life and to settle down and wanted to ignore the bigger problems that were going on
in the world but no matter what happened he just couldn't have that and for a non-human character
there's just so much emotion that's conveyed in every action the decision that he made to build
a dog to try and restore normality after one of the most brutal scenes in this series The Moments
where he plays with the kids or he goes to the school and even whilst he's just talking to the
neighbors felt like necessary scenes to help us build this image of who vision is at his core and
what he really Desires in another title they might have felt like fella that are just trying to fill
up Pages because they've got 22 that they need to complete but with vision the little moments
are the stories I also enjoyed the narration going on throughout the series like how often
does that happen there was just something ominous and unsettling about the way it was carrying us
through the story that I think just adding to the overall experience and I enjoyed it first it felt
like it was this homage to self-rage Comics you know the type where the narration is so
obviously almost makes the art feel redundant but the voice of the narration was fantastic
in carrying us forward in some of those slower moments he even gave away some spoilers in the
first issue but because he was in line with the tone I didn't really mind and there was one scene
in particular where Vision was doing the narration and he was going through all the times that he
saved Earth I did like how I could line up some of those events but there was just this sarcastic
undertone throughout it that I just really liked and normally I don't resonate with a family drama
storyline that's going on within a superhero book they often take away from the action and the story
that I wanted to read and they're mostly just there to cause problems for the main character but
that wasn't the case with vision and the plot was the family I can't sit here and say that Virginia
vein and vev were some of my favorite characters that have ever existed but it just became way more
invested in their plot than I'd ever expect the longer that the series went on I was invested in
those scenes that were just going on between the three of them seeing this family that visioned
great be able to hold a scene on their own as just something that I wouldn't have ever predicted and
I think it's an achievement on King's part that he doesn't always need to have Vision
in the scene for it to be interesting and I just love to have the family that he created was the
one causing him the biggest problems but he still needed him there for his happiness and in an odd
twist for myself I wasn't a fan when The Wider Marvel Universe characters started to appear and
I think it actually took something away from the book maybe it's because I'm just not a fan of the
Triangular looking armor that Iron Man had during this era but when the Avengers characters started
to show up I felt like it was the equivalent of a curtain dropping during a theater production
because when this book started I like that it felt like it could be separate from everything that's
going on in the Marvel Universe how many times is it the case that there's an event going on that
completely derails a great story and yes yet again I'm thinking about you Matt fractions Iron Man but
from issue one I felt like that possibility was completely eliminated sure yeah vision's house
was decorated with a piano from what condo and a gift from Captain America but it still felt like
it could be set apart from the main Marvel Universe continuity or at least play fast
and loose with white fitted in don't get me wrong there was a great twist that involved The Avengers
and an action scene that felt pivotal for the climax but I found myself performing this a lot
more when it was just about Vision in his newly created Family in saying that the vision related
established characters that feature throughout this were a welcome addition Grim Reaper Victor
in that fantastic flashback issue with Scarlet Witch were major highlights for this series that
last one in particular was Scarlet Witch I loved it to place him within this run and it felt like
it came at a perfect time and at first it felt like this maybe was going to be pure flashback
and just there to give us a bit of context to Where vision's Heads at but by the end it was
just so Bleak and haunting I felt the emptiness as Vision reiterates that joke to Virginia and
in some ways and I can't really put my finger on it exactly it reminded me of the ending of The
Killing Joke or maybe that's just me so there is a lot to love about this series and I've probably
missed out on a few of the things that I did really enjoy but the only other things that
I can think of that I want to talk about would be spoilers jumping into the spoiler section now
so if you don't want anything ruined skip to the final verdict but that end scene was difficult I'm
talking about the one before the final scene where Virginia drank from the vase and she was slowly
deteriorating and her life was coming to an end and this was just a really fitting ending to this
entire story but it was still just weird to see it unfolding especially because of the fact that
they'd introduced the Rays very early on in issue one so it's almost like chekhov's gun that they
showed it at the beginning so they knew that they had to use it at the end and especially because
of the fact that this is mostly a character story on Vision seeing him just sit there with it and
accept the fact that he couldn't save it was just so impressive that they managed to pull this off
the life that he wanted was falling apart around him and he couldn't do anything except for sit
with him and just let it happen the only thing that I do think slightly ruined this was the
very final scene I'm talking about the last page because it was implying that Vision might not be
done trying to create life and I think that is a little bit of a disappointing take obviously
it's a character that likes to see progress and he wants to see the future advance but he also kind
of felt like maybe he didn't learn his lesson in the first place I don't know no don't get me wrong
if you make a sequel to this I will gladly read it but at the same time it feels like it might
just be a cliffhanger for the sake of it but I do feel like it might have just been a more fitting
close if they'd ended the book with the scene with Virginia dying which crazy thinking about
that scene and how he overshadowed the rest of the series because there was an amazing Cliffhanger at
the end of issue one where the Grim Reaper just burst in and he got killed and this just set off
this amazing chain of events I did not have a clue where this book was going as soon as this happened
I think it was the perfect stick of dynamite they could have thrown in because before that it was
about this slow build and establishing what type of story this was gonna be but then that happened
and it was like nope this is still gonna be a bit batshit crazy and I just loved how the book
didn't let this moment go it did become the plot it was all of a sudden this Snowball Effect and
everything just got caught up in it I thought it might have just been one of those dumb scenes to
show you that yeah the Marvel Universe does still exist here but it was almost like Breaking Bad in
a way that okay Virginia's killed this person so she's gonna have to bury them but then somebody
found out that they did it which is going to lead to death and then so on and so forth and now that
I've finished this series it's just weird thinking how would this series have been if this moment
hadn't have happened were they destined to always create some problem that Vision wouldn't be able
to solve but that leads me on to Leon killing CK this was another one of those moments that
I just really didn't see coming either who knows maybe the narration did tell me about this one
and I really wasn't paying attention but him then blaming Virginia and having this Snowball Effect
on Viv I loved everything that came from this and when I was talking about the Scarlet Witch
issue and it coming at the right time I feel like it was after I needed a bit of a break from this
it's just crazy to me how good the pace was and if I went back and read this again I could probably
bring up other moments in the spoiler section but when I think back on longer series that
go on for way past 12 issues some of them don't have as many memorable moments as Vision this is
my final verdict and my priority when reading a comic is to be entertained I don't have a lot of
spare time to read every book that's out there and I'd much rather spend my time enjoying the book
that's in front of me than working hard to try and figure out what the story is about but Tom King's
the vision and yeah that there is there so that's why I'm gonna call it that even though it doesn't
really sound like like it flows correctly managed to do what many other Comics could and by giving
me an entertaining story but also a deeper level that I wanted to explore I also get the feeling
that the older that I get and the more of life that I experience I will end up getting more out
of this book because it's a fantastic exploration about the pressures of life and how autonomous our
days can become and also just about how the thing that we desire most can also bring us the greatest
misery I do wish that the art was more to my liking that was my biggest hurdle with this title
but again that's just personal preference and I do think it would have benefited from setting itself
apart from the Marvel universe that was going on whilst this was being released because this does
feel like a story that could be remembered for decades to come so it's a shame that it has to
date itself however and with me taking a more positive approach to the books that I review I
thoroughly enjoyed vision and had definitely recommend it to anybody who wants something
a bit different from the regular output coming from Marvel or DC maybe I'm being too generous
but when I weigh everything up and I think about the experience that I had with this book I'm gonna
give this a very high score of 90 woof woof so that's the video hopefully you enjoyed it
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