Avengers Icons: The Vision #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Eye of the Beholder" is the second chapter of the only solo Vision miniseries produced before the character's destruction in Avengers Disassembled, making it part of the last sustained solo spotlight Vision received in the pre-Bendis Marvel era. The story deepens the synthezoid's emotional quest for familial belonging by introducing Victoria Anderson — granddaughter of Phineas Horton, the man who originally created the android Human Torch — giving Vision a human lineage to claim as his own. That thematic thread, an artificial being desperately constructing a sense of family from inherited biology, would resonate forward through Tom King's acclaimed 2015 Vision series and the WandaVision television adaptation. The issue also represents one of the earliest extended collaborations between writer Geoff Johns and penciller Ivan Reis, a pairing that would go on to define DC's publishing output for over a decade.
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The four-issue Avengers Icons: The Vision limited series was part of Marvel's early-2000s 'Icons' initiative, which gave solo spotlights to prominent Avengers characters who lacked their own ongoing titles. Editor Tom Brevoort oversaw the project under editor-in-chief Joe Quesada, with Geoff Johns scripting and Brazilian artist Ivan Reis providing pencils — notably early in Reis's American career, before his landmark runs on Green Lantern and Blackest Night at DC. The series was collected in 2005 as the graphic novel Vision: Yesterday & Tomorrow (with a bonus reprint of Avengers #57, Vision's 1969 debut by Roy Thomas and John Buscema), and the collection was reissued in 2015 following Vision's prominent role in the MCU's Avengers: Age of Ultron.
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- Issue title: 'Eye of the Beholder'; released September 11, 2002 with a cover date of November 2002.
- Written by Geoff Johns; pencilled by Ivan Reis; inked by Joe Pimentel; colored by Chris Sotomayor; lettered by Paul Tutrone; edited by Tom Brevoort.
- Cover art was computer-generated by Brian Haberlin, consistent across all four issues of the miniseries.
- The issue continues the amnesiac Vision's search for the descendants of Professor Phineas T. Horton — creator of the original android Human Torch — with the help of the boy Derek, introduced in issue #1.
- Victoria Anderson, Phineas Horton's granddaughter, is a key supporting character in this issue; her presence is the emotional and narrative anchor tying Vision's synthetic origins to a living human family line.
- The miniseries' antagonist, the Gremlin — a Nazi-era prototype synthezoid built using Horton's stolen technology — is the machine-hacking threat Vision and his companions must eventually stop.
- By the series' end, Vision regains his memories but with a permanent physical side effect: his robotic skeletal frame becomes visible whenever he turns intangible.
- The entire miniseries (#1–4) was collected in the trade paperback Vision: Yesterday & Tomorrow, which also reprints Avengers #57 (1969), Vision's first-ever appearance; the collection was originally released in 2005 and reissued in 2015.
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Reprinted in Vision: Yesterday and Tomorrow #[nn] (2005), Marvel Série I #6 (2012), Avengers: The Complete Collection by Geoff Johns #1 (2013), Marvel's Mightiest Heroes #42 (2014), Avengers by Johns & Coipel Omnibus #[nn] (2025)
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