6/11/2023 0 Comments The Vision, Vol. 1 by Tom KingOne of the most effective elements of Vision is the use of narrators as well as the color-coding of narrative and dialogue balloons. Vision is much more than source material for WandaVision, however this work also offers a powerful addition to science fiction’s enduring questions about what it means to be human-often explored through androids and artificial intelligence-as well as unpacking the essence of love, justice, and the frailty of life (or sentience). King repeats motifs and phrases around normalcy and the conditions of being a family member-such as Virginia’s proclivity for crying: Visions entire family, not just Vin, are obsessed to the point of existential dread with their goal of being a normal family (see also Normality in Sayaka Murata). While WandaVision expands the stereotypical nuclear family trope through pastiche, Tom King (writer) and artists Gabriel Hernandez Walta (issues 1-6, 8-12) and Michael Walsh (issue 7) ground the philosophical questions running through the narrative around Vision’s synthezoid family living in Arlington, VA with the children attending Alexander Hamilton High in Fairfax, VA in the traditional family trope. 2, 2016), award-winning and critically acclaimed, sits behind the Disney+ series WandaVision by providing important and substantial backstories for Wanda and Vision but also because the Disney+ series and the twelve-issue comic book series share a framing: The normal American Family.
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