Before The Visions appearance in 2015’s Avengers: Age Of Ultron, he wasn’t that well known by fans. With large comic additions in Marvels early days and a few recent appearances The Vision has overall in my opinion been a very overshadowed character in the ever growing Marvel Comics roster. Needless to say when Vision got his own comic series in 2016, it was well deserved for many reasons. One of them being that the Vision should have the spotlight due to the sheer character complexities. Writer Tom King only delves deeper into those complexities by placing the synthetic humanoid in a suburb of Virginia, with his newly created synth/humanoid wife, and children. Kings writing is spectacular here, holding the series together by narrating the story of The Visions and in almost every issue, hinting at events to come, shining a light on important parts of Visions past, and haunting character dialogue to keep the readers attention in an almost action-less series. Another reason this series works so well is Gabriel Hernandez Waltas amazing artwork. Walta illustrates all 12 issues and the series is truly better for it. Every detail of The Visions life and story is put on display and the writing and artwork go hand in hand with each other throughout the story. When the series leans towards that often lingering horror side, the artwork shows you, whereas the writing tells you the tone it is taking. Jordie Bellaire, as the color artist, also never misses a beat, putting on display his ability to convey emotion and tone with the carefully chosen colors on every panel. Mike Del Mundo (Issues 1-4) and Marco D’Alfonso (Issues 5-6), the cover artists, treat us every issue with eye candy that is the covers and always whether it subtle, or intentional, convey what will transpire in the issue in some way. If a fan of the character or just looking for a good, inexpensive read, The Vision – Little Worse Than A Man goes highly recommended.

10 out of 10