Celestial Bodies - Hiatus

As a stand-alone comic, similar to What If? #38, I loved it and found it very sweet and endearing. It also reminded me of the Doctor Who episode, The Husbands of River Song, which is one of my favorites!

But, do I think they're back together? Judging from the content of the comic... no. I think that was very much Orlando saying 'they could be happy together, even though I'm not putting them together right now'. I'm okay with that. If nothing else, it's very affirming to what I think has been true of their characterization, which is that they love each other and have never really stopped loving each other. I like that Orlando sort of nodded to the transient nature of comic book relationships. These characters are constantly changing, nothing is really permanent if you're not Reed and Sue or Lois and Clark. So, I do wonder if he knows he's not going to have Wanda under his wing, or if she's going to get carried off to do something else in a short time, and he doesn't want to have them go the way of Wanda's last relationship.

It's super short and is more like a introspective thing about his relationship to his powers (I think). it's rendered in this really nice kinda realistic style.

him and the others avengers are rescuing people after a building collapse. he phases through the rumble, then phases through people he finds to kinda pick them up and crawl to safety. the whole thing is him trying to calm down a kid he's got tucked away by talking about his powers, all while using torn pieces of his cape to do like, field triage on other survivors he finds that he has to come back for later.

if you know it, incredible. if not, thanks for reading this quick word vomit. 🙇‍♂️💖

I'm sorry I didn't see this sooner! I'm more or less on hiatus and I guess the tumblr mobile app just stopped telling me if I got asks? There's a couple from this last May I'm just seeing now...

Anyway, you are talking about Paolo Rivera's short story in Marvel v1 #2, "The Vision: Unphased", I believe. In my opinion probably the best Vision story written since Avengers: Disassembled.

His Marvel Infinity Comic was actually correct lore-wise, which is a great bonus.

And I was a HUGE fan of how he finished Darkhold Omega--I've said before that when it comes to making lasting changes to characters in comics it only works if you can do something big & impressive & memorable, otherwise it gets 'written over by the common take on the character. That is, telling stories about Chthon being a threat to Wanda will always be vogue, but if you sort of wiggle the context around so that Wanda has some inherent agency to the situation, I think you'll tempt other writers who are less interested in the character to do better by her.

(Plus fan of Chthon That Fucks. More memorable/unique design than Clayface or not-Chthulu.)