4) The Vision
With Vision making his big-screen debut with Avengers: Age of Ultron and returning almost immediately for Captain America: Civil War, it seemed like the right time to give the character his own ongoing title. It also just seemed like a logical business move. As it turns out, it actually wound up being one of Marvel’s best comics of the year.
This is a series about Vision attempting to live a normal, quaint suburban life. He’s settled in Virginia with a wife and two children. It’s all very picturesque and Norman Rockwell-ish, except of course that Vision and his family are all synthetic.
There’s a consistently balanced lightness and darkness to Vision that makes it such a standout book, and I’m not sure anyone was really expecting this series to be as great as it turned out to be. It’s got a retro feel but expresses ‘50s-era tropes and themes in a way that is exceptionally current, and the story moves at a surprisingly fast pace, dropping some shocking revelations as to what role Vision and his family could potentially play in the future.
