Niku wrote:I literally just read Tom King's Vision mini-series like a month or two ago in preparation for this; so far it seems like there's not a lot of overlap aside from "superheroes move into suburbs, are weird", but I definitely recommend it on its own merits.
Yeah, it's fantastic. I wasn't expecting a horror comic going in, but it's a great damn horror comic. King's really good at portraying depression, the existential dread of mundanity. His Mister Miracle series (with aritst Mitch Gerads) is another great book along the same lines. There's one issue in particular, where Scott and Barda are fighting the forces of Apokolips while simultaneously discussing how they're going to arrange furniture in their new apartment, that really stuck in my brain. (He's also working with Ava DuVernay on the upcoming New Gods movie, which...okay, I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he's good enough at this to understand that that shit would never work in a movie.)
There's a lot of King's work I haven't read (never picked up his higher-profile books like Grayson or Batman) and some that really didn't work for me (I picked up the first issue of Heroes in Crisis, didn't care for it, grabbed a copy of #2 that I found on the ground next to a Dumpster, read it, and conceded that the person who left it there had a point), but Vision and Mister Miracle were both something special. And like you say, WandaVision doesn't really share anything with the King/Walta Vision series except "Vision in the suburbs" and the pervasive, suffocating sense that Something Is Wrong, but those aren't bad jumping-off points, either.