Velvet - Ed Brubaker
- Vol 1: Before the Living End
- The Secret Lives of Dead Men
Superb captivating spy story, about a secretary who was once a superb
field agent. When one of her former lovers dies in the field, she
investigates, only to find a very complicated web of betrayals and
former Cold War movers and shakers... not to mention the unwelcome
memory of her ex-husband, whom she terminated for being a double agent.
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Vice Squad - Zidrou [Dargaud]
- Up Against the Wall
- Nine-Month Protector
Aimé, a cop on the vice squad, is sitting around with a German and some townsfolk as Allied bombs explode around them. He remembers how he started on the Vice Squad as a newbie. His father was a defrocked priest who went insane; his apartment's concierge has a crush on him, but he frequents prostitutes and obsesses over an exotic sex worker who has animal shows. Later, the Germans start rounding up Jews, but Aimé does nothing. In the present, the girl he's been talking to gives him some empty words of comfort. It's beautiful and quite philosophic, but rather grim. [3.5]
Vision - Tom King
- Little Worse Than a Man - Vision moves into a house in suburban Virginia with his android wife and two android children, Viv and Vin, which he made. It is just as creepy as it sounds; Vision's cold logic and apparent disdain for humanity is at odds with the image of him wearing a tie, kissing his housewife goodbye, and sending "kids" off to school. When the Grim Reaper appears, calling them imposters and copies, the fiction of the Visions' home life starts to unravel. What won't Vision do to maintain the facade? Extremely intelligent writing creates a grim dystopian scenario leavened with some black humor. [4.5]
Vision and the Scarlet Witch - under Avengers: Vision and the Scarlet Witch
