FEW HEROES IN the Marvel Cinematic Universe have had it as rough as Vision. Since his debut in 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, the Vision was mistrusted by the Avengers and forced to kill his creator, the homicidal robot Ultron. He fell in love with teammate Wanda Maximoff, only to fight against her in Captain America: Civil War, and then get killed by Thanos.
A grief-stricken Wanda resurrected Vision in WandaVision and made him a father, using her hex powers to create twin sons. But when Wanda had to surrender her hex at the end of the series, he lost those children and was wiped from existence—but not before he transferred his memories into a white doppelgänger created by the government agency SWORD. So where does that leave Vision?
VisionQuest picks up with the White Vision from WandaVision, once again played by Paul Bettany. As he tries to make sense of the memories in his mind, memories that aren’t quite his, Vision seeks help from a collection of AIs from around the Marvel Universe, including personal assistant F.R.I.D.A.Y. (Olra Brady) and thrill-seeker E.D.I.T.H. (Emily Hampshire). When a mysterious stranger sets a bounty hunter called the Paladin (Todd Stashwick) to hunt him down, the Vision must call upon his worst enemy, Ultron (James Spader).
Together, Vision and Ultron go on a journey that somehow reunites him with one of his sons, Tommy (Ruaridh Mollica), and takes him to the very beginning of artificial intelligence in the MCU. But if you want your quest to go beyond the MCU, then check out these great Marvel Comics about Vision and his strange synthetic friends. It all starts here, with Ultron’s first appearance in Avengers #55, his initial battle against Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, and his attempt to mimic his creator by making his own robot, a robot we know as the Vision.
To MCU fans, the origin of Ultron and Vision broadly matches the plot beats of Avengers: Age of Ultron. But the specifics are different in the comics, where Ultron is the creation of Hank Pym aka Ant-Man, and the Vision is based on Wonder Man and the original Human Torch (more on that last guy in a minute). Those differences alone would make “Behold… The Vision!” worthy reading material.
But these issues stand on their own merit, classics of the Silver Age with delightfully wordy scripts by Roy Thomas and dramatic pencils by John Buscema. From these early beginnings, its easy to see how Ultron and Vision became Marvel mainstays. If you’re going to read comics related to a show called VisionQuest, you should probably read the comic book storyline called VisionQuest, right?
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