Cinemas being closed due to the pandemic didn’t help, of course, but a growing fleet of couch hogs got their superhero entertainment on the Disney+ streaming channel, which from early 2021 impressed with a surprising number of original TV series starring Marvel’s Lesser. – Famous superheroes and villains.
That is, they are not so surprising if you’ve read the comics they take inspiration from. World of vision. When Marvel took over television series responsibility from Netflix, they started the ball with “Wanda/Vision”, where Avengers members The Scarlet Witch and Vision overcame the aftermath of “Endgame” by escaping into a small-town world much like an American sitcom.
The story is no taken from the cartoon “The Vision” (2016) by Tom King and Gabriel Hernández Walta, but the TV series is heavily inspired by it, both thematically and visually.
King had worked on counterterrorism for the CIA for seven years after September 11, 2001 before becoming a full-time writer, and within a short time he became one of the rising stars of the superhero genre, essentially Batman for DC Comics. But this is still among his best works so far.
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The rule of thumb for Marvel comics is that the best stories often come where you least expect them to. Flags like the Avengers, X-Men and Captain America also have their spotlight, but often slip into endless stories and commercial compromises.
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