Vision Vol. 12

Tom King / Gabriel Hernández Walta / Jodi Beller

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Series: Vision

Summary

This volume is the twelfth and final chapter of the 12-issue Vision miniseries written by Tom King and drawn by Gabriel Hernández Walta (original run: November 2015 to October 2016; issue #12, titled "Spring," was published on October 26, 2016). The series follows the synthezoid Vision as he pursues his wish to "live like an ordinary person": he builds a wife, Virginia, and twins, Viv and Vin, in his own image, and the family of four moves into an ordinary neighborhood on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., trying to maintain a normal life under the eyes of neighbors, school, and the Avengers. Yet this fragile domestic facade is built on lies from the start: a "Grim Reaper" who breaks into the home is accidentally killed by Virginia and buried, and the extortion, concealment, and mounting deaths that follow push the family step by step toward collapse. By Volume 12, Vision has lost his family and faces the wreckage alone: he must decide whether to go on and how, and that decision will shape the Marvel Universe for a long time to come. This volume is the convergence and conclusion of the whole tragic arc—emotionally heavy, with almost none of the traditional hero combat, closer to the final act of a science-fiction tragedy about family, responsibility, and cost.

Editor's review

《幻视》12期系列被普遍视为21世纪漫威最受推崇的短篇之一：它拿下艾斯纳奖最佳迷你系列，乔迪·贝莱尔也凭本作获最佳上色奖；《纽约时报》称其为“漫画杰作”，评论界反复提到它“几乎不像超级英雄漫画”，而更像一部阴冷的科幻家庭悲剧。汤姆·金把“幻视想要成为人”这个老命题推到了极端：他造出妻子和孩子，把家安在郊区，然后让偏见、谎言与爱一起发酵。沃尔塔的构图克制、留白多，把日常的客厅、学校和草坪拍成令人不安的场景。第12册是全系列的终点，也是所有伏笔集中回账的一册——它不给爽快的反派胜利，只留下一个人（或者说一台机器）在废墟上做的选择。建议先把前11册读完再来这一册，否则会觉得过于安静、过于残忍。

Who it's for

A good fit for

已读完《幻视》系列前11册、想看到结局的读者
喜欢汤姆·金内敛叙事与悲剧结构的漫画读者
对“人工智能能否成为人”这类科幻伦理题材感兴趣的人
想了解《旺达幻视》剧集灵感来源的漫威影视观众

Not a good fit for

期待密集打斗与复仇者群像动作戏的读者
初次接触漫威漫画、想从这本入门的读者
对压抑、家庭破裂题材比较敏感的读者

Reading tips

务必按第1至第12册的顺序读，本册是收束全局的结局，倒着读会失去大半张力。
读这一册时可以留意“家庭”与“程序”两种语言的交替，那是全系列的核心矛盾。
若想对照改编，可在读完后再看《旺达幻视》，注意两者只共享“幻视组建家庭”的设定框架。
篇幅不长，建议一次读完，中途搁置容易冲淡悲剧的累积感。

FAQ

第12册是整套书的最后一册吗？

是。这一册对应原版《Vision》(2015) 第12期《Spring》，于2016年10月出版，是整个12期迷你系列的最终章，全系列的主要线索都在这里收尾。

没读过前11册能直接看这一册吗？

不建议。本册几乎不回顾前情，直接处理此前累积的谎言、死亡与家庭破裂，脱离前文阅读会很难理解人物动机，也体会不到结局的重量。

这本书和《旺达幻视》剧集有关系吗？

有间接关系。《旺达幻视》借用了“幻视拥有家庭生活、住在理想化郊区”的设定框架，但剧情、人物与结局都不同，不能把本册当作剧集改编本来读。

这一册里有大量复仇者登场吗？

复仇者的介入是系列后段的重要背景，但整体仍以幻视一家的内部崩解为主线，战斗与群像戏份有限，重点在家庭与选择。

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About the author

Tom King Author

Tom King is an author whose works are catalogued under categories such as art, film and television, premium fiction, film and television adaptations, literature, and foreign literature, with 50 titles held in the collection. His representative works include Miracle Man Vol. 5, Omega Squad V3 Vol. 6, Vision Vol. 11, Penguin issues 3 and 5, Supergirl: Girl of Tomorrow, and Batman: Rebirth Part One. Because public information is limited, his nationality and dates of birth and death cannot be confirmed. These works suggest that he excels at driving narratives through character psychology and relational tension, weaving suspense, emotion, and coming-of-age threads into a superhero framework with a strong cinematic rhythm and visual sense. He is skilled at portraying loneliness and struggle within limited space, layering delicate emotional depth beyond action scenes, which makes his stories both readable and emotionally resonant—an important reason his work has drawn reader attention.

Gabriel Hernández Walta Author

Gabriel Hernández Walta is a comics artist about whom limited public information is available; his nationality and dates of birth and death are not reliably recorded. Judging from the seven works held in our catalog, his output centers on the Vision series, including volumes 1, 3, 4 and 6 as well as issues 9, 10 and 12, which shows how closely he is associated with this series. On this site these works are grouped under children's books, comics and cartoons, fine fiction, film and television tie-ins, quality web fiction and mystery, suggesting that his visual storytelling combines the expressive power of comics with the tension of mystery narratives and reaches a fairly broad readership. Readers wishing to understand his drawing style and panel composition can begin with the individual volumes of the Vision series and observe his sustained engagement with visual narrative.

Jodi Beller Author

Jodi Beller is an author about whom limited public information is available; her nationality and dates of birth and death cannot currently be confirmed. Judging from the library's holdings, two of her works have been brought into Chinese publication, namely volumes 9 and 12 of The Vision, which suggests a close connection between her writing and comic storytelling. The Vision series spans categories including children's books, comics and cartoons, fine fiction, and film and television tie-ins, indicating that her writing is aimed at young readers and combines images with text, balancing readability with narrative pacing. Such works typically rely on visuals to drive the plot and on dialogue to shape characters, placing considerable demands on an author's sense of paneling and dialogue. Based on the available material, Beller's creative profile remains thin; her full body of work, writing career, and creative philosophy await further public information, and readers can presently glimpse only one corner of her style through these two Chinese editions.