Vision
This is one of the most unique comics Marvel has to offer. When the android Avenger known as the Vision decides to try to lead a more normal life in the suburbs, he creates a family for himself in the form of a wife and teenage twins, a boy and a girl, also androids. The Vision assumes that the knowledge he has provided for them will sustain them, and actually doesn’t spend much time with his new family, a big reason why things fall apart so quickly and violently. From the beginning, the book’s narration makes it clear that this little experiment will not end well, so dread is quickly imbued in us and keeps building as the family is forced to confront everything from supervillains to school bullies to the prejudice of their neighbors. The detached tone, the robotic way the family converses, along with the constant philosophical discussions and debates about normality and the nature of humanity itself builds the escalating tension as the bodies pile up and the horrors of everyday life begin to seem more frightening than the threat of world destruction.
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