![]() On the big screen, the Vision has been played, by the English actor Paulīettany, primarily for comic relief: he startles people by phasing Move is to pass an immaterial fist into a villain’s chest, then Hard if he wished to stop bullets like Superman.” The Vision’s signature Ghost if he wished to float through walls or doors, becoming diamond These, as Jonathan Lethem put it, in a short story inspired by theįrom 2004, is “the power to vary the density of his body, becoming a I also thought that the Vision just had the coolest powers. Scarring his plastic cheek-“ Even an android can Posed elegantly, delicately, fingers to his brow, and a single tear Marvel’s most famous: the Vision, his own synthetic heart swelling, The story concludes with a full-page image, one of Instead, he helps them defeat Ultron and is invited Searching for on the doorstep is “synthezoid.”) He was created by theĮvil Ultron, who actually is a robot, not to become part of the Avengersīut to murder them. Him, the Vision is a type of android, “basically human in every wayĮxcept that your body is made of synthetic parts.” (The word Nora is That of such better-known heroes as Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four.Ĭreated by the writer Roy Thomas and the artist John Buscema, the Visionĭébuted in “The Avengers”-not the film franchise but the comicīook-fifty years ago this October. ![]() Marvel character, one with a history nearly as long and as complicated as With “The Vision,” King hasn’t so much reinvented as reinvigorated a Imprint Vertigo, will see the release of its own deluxe edition later Series “Sheriff of Babylon,” an Iraq War-based comic for the DC “The Omega Men,” and, for the past two years, “Batman.” His limited Several highly regarded DC Comics titles, including “Mister Miracle,” Superhero-themed novel “ A Once Crowded Sky,” and he’s been behind Since returning to comics, he has published the following 9/11, eventually working in both IraqĪnd Afghanistan. ![]() He has his own strikingīackstory: after interning at both Marvel and DC Comics, in the nineties, Much of the credit for that goes to King, perhaps the most criticallyĪcclaimed comic writer of the past decade or so. Zeitgeist-powered superheroes than ever before, “The Vision” goes downĪs one of the great comic-book stories-an examination of the limitsīuilt into each of us, a superhero tale not about saving the world butĪbout simply fighting to make sure that you, and your family, fit into Even in an era when our pop-cultural skies are more jammed with Will also take over “Captain America”-declares, “ ‘The Vision’ is theīest comic going right now.” It’s high praise, but perhaps still not highĮnough. Print version of “Black Panther”-and who, Marvel has just announced, Ta-Nehisi Coates, who has spent the past couple of years writing the latest Recently published in a deluxe hardbound edition. Of Arlington, Virginia, invite George and Nora inside for a tour.Ī Marvel comic released in 2015, for a twelve-issue run, “ TheĮisner Award, the comic world’s highest honor, last year, and was Like the good neighbors that they want to be, the Visions Their faces are red not from embarrassment orĪnger-though they certainly heard George’s slur-but because they were “Fancy red toasters.”Īt that moment, the Vision and his family answer the door, wearing broadĬrimson smiles. “They’re toasters,” George snarls at his wife. “They’re robots, Nora,” George tells his wife, irritated. A pair of married neighbors, GeorgeĪnd Nora, come calling with introductions and baked goods. A longtime member of the superhero team theĪvengers, the Vision has just moved with his family into a neighborhood Walta, and the colorist Jordie Bellaire, opens with an ordinary scene of “The Vision,” by the writer Tom King, the artist Gabriel Hernandez “The Vision” is not about saving the world but about understanding the limits built into each of us.
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