tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post6216075785904138234..comments2024-03-19T10:41:35.976-05:00Comments on Bronze Age Babies: Avengers: The Serpent Crown Affair, part 5Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248324005584963229noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-28429253899332379072010-12-21T16:01:15.381-06:002010-12-21T16:01:15.381-06:00One more thing worthy of comment is the number of ...One more thing worthy of comment is the number of ideas that appeared in Englehart's stories. The Vision shunting away so much mass that he practically becomes invisible makes a lot of sense as a tactic, but no one thought of it, to my knowledge, before Steve E., nor did anyone use the ability again until Englehart's VISION & SCARLET WITCH #1. The maxiseries was filled with ideas, especially in the area of magic(k).<br /><br />As frustrating as the absence of Wanda and Vizh might be (how well he's handled in DEAD AVENGERS remains to be seen), he and Wanda <b>are</b> just fictional characters, only as realistic as the writer of a story makes them. The classic couple could return any time if a Marvel editor paid for a story about them.<br /><br />SRSSteven R. Stahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03455970917202165964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-34358413893541328662010-12-21T14:49:19.171-06:002010-12-21T14:49:19.171-06:00Last week I mentioned how much I loved the scene w...Last week I mentioned how much I loved the scene where Vision makes mincemeat of Hyperion. Vision was such a badass back then. <br /><br />The last page is another reason I mourn the end of their marriage.J.A. Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15800901321134394272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-58559854553987106862010-12-20T21:47:37.604-06:002010-12-20T21:47:37.604-06:00Tbat two month wait to get to this issue was horri...Tbat two month wait to get to this issue was horrid, but Englehart & Perez really delivered the goods with this issue. And those highlights you pointed out, Karen, were excellent. The Vision's response to Hyperion's boasting was hilarious, perhaps made even more so as the Vision wasn't particularly famed as a great quipster of the superhero set. But, as with Spock in the old Star Trek, the Vision's droll sense of humor came through every so often to great effect. And remembering the way Vizh and Wanda were makes it aggravating to know how later writers essentially ruined them, first as a couple, then as characters.Fred W. Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07602124919964053532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-77690795303049204112010-12-20T09:17:56.174-06:002010-12-20T09:17:56.174-06:00This was my favorite issue of the storyline. The f...This was my favorite issue of the storyline. The focus on Wanda and Vizh, was great, of course, but so was the parody of the JLA. The issue still reads wonderfully well, 34 years later, because of that unforced humor -- one can easily imagine Hyperion being an overconfident oaf -- and because of the political references, which are as relevant today as they were when the issue was published.<br /><br />The artwork, as noted, worked very well. It's hard to imagine anyone else at the time doing the sequence in which the Vision flies over the Lois Lane and Lana Lang stand-ins (?).<br /><br />Reading your review brings back all the pleasure I felt as I read that issue. It made my comics-reading month.<br /><br />SRSSteven R. Stahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03455970917202165964noreply@blogger.com