At my job, I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I just realized that I could listen to people talk about marvel comics.
The podcast “Marveling at Marvel’s Marvels” is one guy telling two other guys (who don’t know anything about it) all the wild details about the origins and stories of comic characters, and then having them rate the characters.
I listened to the Vision and Scarlet Witch episodes (the episodes back-to-back and joined because the two characters are so inseparable in canon) and I was sad when the dudes were about to give them bad scores.
But then the narrator (who actually read all the comics) when into this beautiful, beautiful speech about how Vision and Wanda are fascinating compared to other super heroes because their plots are the opposite of what you’d expect – while Captain America is an average man who becomes more interesting through gaining power, Wanda and Vision start as horrifically over-powered characters who the writers constantly work to try to show as human, to use to tell small, intimate, emotional, domestic stories.
Captain America is the story of normal-grown-greater. Vision and Wanda are the story of great-made-human.
I don’t know, I didn’t expect that kind of insight and poetry out of these kinds of podcasts. I got starry-eyed listening to him wax poetic about something I also love, that the others were about to just dismiss. They reconsidered and gave them better scores.
ok while I was reading these old comics, I took screenshots because I don’t want to have to go looking back through them again. Here’s my favorite parts of Scarlet Witch/Vision’s old romance.
Those Celestial Bodies 