True Believers: Empyre - Mantis No 1 (re:view)

Welcome to a whole new adventure with... a comic for your dollar! This time I'm bringing you origin goodness in the form of the Vision and Mantis. Let's dive in.

And so the story begins with giving us some hex realness with her amazing po-wah! It's ended with her trainer Harkness giving us chic psyches which actually befittingly and beautifully transitions into the next story in which takes place outside Earth. This employs a unique style of storytelling of origins which I really love. I'm wondering if there is actually room for characters being able to revisit their origins in a meta way which will also offer fresh insights but that's a whole other conversation.

It's pretty interesting to see Vision's origins as the original Human Torch as he was an android that was also part of the Invaders. From that, I'm not really clued up and this does offer a fresh undertaking of the origin which flows well in an Avengers comic. Same could be said for Mantis but it's only the groundworks of her origins that was placed into view but not her full. In fact, it was also in part a Skrull vs. Kree origin story which was actually something else that I was consciously aware of but did not know of how it came about.

The artwork is amazing with great visuals especially coming off the strong origin stories of the Vision and Mantis. The staffs that they hold to travel back into their times offers a gorgeous and unique way of providing hot strong semblances of art against the backdrop of space visuals.

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The comic forms a unique form of storytelling coupled with great intergalactic visuals that offers a strong foundation for the origin stories of the Vision and Mantis. It ends on strong suspense on how the Skrull vs. Kree origin story links into Mantis's origin.

True Believers: Empyre - Mantis No 1 (originally published as Avengers Vol 1 # 133)
Steve Englehart - author
Sal Buscema & Joe Staton - artists
Tom Orzechowski - calligraphy
Phil Rachelson - Colouring
Len Wein - editor