This issue
introduced me to yet another Timely character that I had never heard of. Well,
actually, I have heard of the Vision, but brother, this isn’t the Vision I grew
up with in issues of the Avengers. This Vision is an other-dimensional alien
who can enter this world through smoke and flame. He’s powered by those very
elements and often appears to his victims but is invisible to the naked eye of
other observers. So when a baddie has a grisly demise, it looks like a suicide.
This
vigilante hero is very gritty. His modern story was pretty gruesome with
visions of rape, mutilations, and gore. I had to remember half way through this
story that this is the modern tale, and not the 1940s version. But the 40s
story was just about as violent.
I actually
liked this issue. It’s definitely not for kids under age 13 though. It’s like
Rob Zombie and Quentin Tarantino got together and created a noir supernatural
comic book. Very unusual stuff. But who ever said unusual was a bad thing.
Worth
Consuming.
Rating 9 out
of 10 stars.
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