Tom King, Gabriel Hernandez-Walta and Jordie Bellaire's The Vision was a landmark series for the Android Avenger and Marvel at large. And now, following in its footsteps is a brand new series from Chelsea Cain, Marc Mohan and Aud Koch.

The end has come. Twelve issues later, the story of Marvel's premier android avenger and his quest to make the perfect family has come to a close. The final issue, out this week, gave the Vision and his family closure: It was tragic, it was hopeful and, as ever with this series, it was all immaculately delivered.

The Vision is a comic that has an almost oppressive aura of inevitability to it. From the very first pages, we've known that doom is coming to the synthezoid and his newly-born family. Well, the first part of that doom has finally arrived, and it is completely gut-wrenching.

The Vision is one of the biggest surprises to come out of Marvel Comics in years. The company announced the android would get his own comic, just as the character was about to appear in Age of Ultron, so fans expected a light, action-y series to cater to movie fans. The Vision took that preconception and smashed it to pieces.

Tom King says that a lifetime of reading superhero comics helped him get ready to work for the CIA. And working for the CIA, in its own way, got him ready to write Batman.

That second half of that headline right there? Basically the entire premise of The Vision as a comic series, in all honesty.

The Vision comic has come to the point of no return for its synthezoid hero -- a true turning point, in what has been an incredibly haunting and fascinating journey so far. But Marvel's best current comic isn't going to get any less bleak. In fact? It's only going to get darker from here.

The Vision is trying to be human. He has an android wife and two kids. Sometimes, just like regular folks, he's going to get phone calls while he's at work.