Comics THORsday: The Vision, a normal family?
Comics THORsday starts a new comic to read little by little: the Vision. Maybe you remember the Vision from the movie the Avengers: Age of Ultron. The Vision is created in the comics by Ultron to destroy the Avengers. He is a highly evolved intelligence, an android composed of synthetic human blood and organs. He decided to go against his father, and instead, he joins the team of the Avengers. Well, he makes himself a family: the Visions. The Visions are a special family who aims to be normal. They move to a new house, and they set themselves to live ordinary lives. And so, their two kids are also sent to school. So far, so good.
This comic series has only three issues at the moment, and it’s already a masterpiece. A drama about a family who moves in a new neighborhood and wants to integrate themselves. But can they really? They are too alien from the rest: they are red, have green hair, are indeed correct and look like the perfect family. When they first arrive, they seem welcomed. They are bizarre, and so, people are curious. But soon clashes appear and the Visions are set to have problems.
We’ll find the narrator in purple captions with white lettering. The Visions speak into yellow and speech balloons with black lettering, but humans do so with the usual white speech balloon and black lettering. Here we start to notice that the Visions are different from their fellow humans. They are also quite logical, since they’re synthezoids (organic robots).
When they arrive in the new neighborhood, some neighbors pay them a visit. Please notice the furniture and things that the Vision show them. They are all out of the ordinary! Presents from other Superheroes objects from other worlds… Even if they strive for being an ordinary family, even the furniture tells volumes about how different from humans they are!
So, the tour that the neighbors take into the Visions’ home is a tour for us to know a little bit about them and to notice details. We also get to see his wife and kids as almost perfect beings who try hard to be normal. However, the tour goes not that well. The neighbors find them weird. What seemed a curiosity, feels like fear and suspicion now. What’s going on here? Isn’t Vision one of the Avengers? Why are people reacting in this way?
Please read carefully what the narrator explains. Very much like an old radio drama, it explains to us what’s going on. How the Vision has troubles to find a paid job, and how his wife spends most of the time sad on the sofa. And while the kids started to have fun, are now beginning to have some problems at school as well. Can they really be members of society, then? Will they be accepted?
Beware of the comic: it’s deep, and it makes you think. The first issue introduces us to the Vision’s family adventures. This is a weird comic book series that is a jewel so far. It poses several questions, and it makes you think about all those alien families who choose to go to another place to make their lives, and who try to be members of society.
Let’s attempt to find these topics in this issue:
- Unrooting. Going to a new place and leaving another one makes you feel somewhat lost. Take a look at the Vision’s wife very closely.
- Unemployment at a certain age. The Vision is an Avenger, and he does have savings. However, as many dads who are used to bring the bread home, he finds himself without a paid job at the moment and is trying to do his best.
- Integration. The family looks very weird for the neighborhood, and they find it difficult to integrate. People welcome them at first, but they soon fear them because they are too different.
- Bullying. The Vision’s son is asked if he is normal by a girl. It’s not nice, it’s during the class, and it leaves the poor guy disturbed. The issue offers a potential to explore bullying as well.
And because this is a Superhero family, we find a villain in the issue. Sometimes villains are metaphors of those people who just hate and want to erase those who are different. So it looks like in this issue. But, will it be so?
If you decide to read this comic book series with me, you’re welcome here! We’ll have this section once a month, following the rhythm of Marvel with a slight delay of two months. There are three issues out there at the moment. You can go ahead and read the other two if you feel like you want to know more about the Visions.
Be advised: this is a mature comic book with many layers and many issues. It’s not common to see a family drama into the Superhero genre. His uniqueness is as surprising as the fact of the Visions wanting to embrace being normal. But, that’s one of the key questions of this comic book: what does to be normal mean?
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