The Vision #12 - "Spring" (final issue)

[laughing_tree]

"’Vision’ was the big game-changer in my career. Specifically, ‘Vision’ #1. I was very much a struggling writer. I was writing half of ‘Grayson.’ ‘Omega Men’ had been cancelled. ‘Vision’ #1 came out in the midst of a ton of other #1’s, and it didn’t sell like gangbusters. But it hit a nerve with critics and fans in such a way that people started looking at my other work and saw that I could write. I was no longer a guy trying to write, I was an actual writer. I got ‘Batman’ on the strength of that issue." -- Tom King

Virginia Vision tells the police a story:

Comments

[byc]

So tragic. So good.

[sanjuro]

Is anybody reminded of Cotton Hill any time it's mentioned that Vision saved the world 37 times?

[capnduckman]

I was more thinking of Clerks.
"How many times have you saved the world?"
"36"
"36? Including me?"
"37"
"Try not to save the world while you're walking through the parking lot!"

[zylly]

...I am now.

[burkeonthesly]

"...and when I woke up, I was in pieces in a warehouse again."

[zylly]

Really loved this series. I don't think it required killing Victor (having him only have been gravely wounded would have worked just as well), but considering he's a robot built by Ultron, it's not like he isn't amazingly easy to bring back.

[cyberghostface]

They'd also have to deal with Victor being retconned into a drug addict and having him kill a kid.

[zylly]

The drug addict thing I could solve with one page and the phrase "Ultron hacked his memory and made him think he had a vibranium addiction."

The other one... well, my proposed retcon of the retcon there would absolve him of any blame.

[thehood]

Except neither would make sense since Ultron isn't even on earth and he's fused with Hank Pym.

Also, character flaws aren't a bad thing and don't need to be retcon. It would be far more interesting if he dealt with it his addiction and recovered. You know, like real people who can't just retcon it away.

[zylly]

Interstellar wi-fi. And/or the Vision series takes place before the Uncanny arc. Or some other villain hacked him for some unrevealed nefarious purpose.

I've no problem with a character being presented as an addict. It's worked well with Roy Harper, Carol Danvers, and Rick Tyler, among others. But I think it was badly handled and out of the blue here.

[thehood]

I thought he was a Cyborg or Android? Besides, that begs the question of why haven't they done so already.

[zylly]

Robot is just my catch-all term for mechanical life-forms. Though even by that standard, Victor's... weird.

[shadowpsykie]

so Wanda knows the whole truth and told Viv?

also, What is this thing about their... flowers... did they have lesbian sex?

*some one please get the really random Now and Then reference...*