Wild Internet Speculation – The Good in Comics

One of my most anticipated upcoming comic series is Strange Adventures, featuring DC space hero Adam Strange. The award winning Mister Miracle creative team of writer Tom King and artist Mitch Gerads is back for this series, joined by artist Evan “Doc” Shaner. I’m a big fan of all three of these creators, but because the series isn’t scheduled to come out until 2020, we don’t know a lot about it yet. We do know, from a Mitch Gerads tweet, that the series will be mostly based on the original Gardner Fox/Carmine Infantino Adam Strange comics. So, I tracked down a library copy of the Adam Strange Omnibus and read the entire original Adam Strange run. Armed with that knowledge, and a pretty good knowledge of these creators’ previous work, I set out to explain the character of Adam Strange and make some predictions about the upcoming Strange Adventures.

The Man of Two Worlds. Cover by Carmine Infantino for *Mystery in Space* 82.

Marvel just announced a whole lot of movies and TV shows as part of Phase IV of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Out of all of the announced projects, the WandaVision TV show on Disney Plus is the one I’m most excited for. Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, and the super-android Vision are two of my favorite Marvel Comics characters, and I love the way they’ve been adapted in the movies. The romance between Wanda and Vision was undoubtedly my favorite part of Avengers: Infinity War.

Cover to *The Vision* 7 by Mike Del Mundo.

The series is scheduled to come out in the spring of 2021. With a release date that far out, there hasn’t been a lot of information released about the series. We know the show will star Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany as Scarlet Witch and the Vision, and we know Kat Dennings and Randall Park will reprise their roles as previous MCU side characters Darcy Lewis (Thor and Thor: The Dark World) and Agent Jimmy Woo (Ant-Man and the Wasp). The cast will also feature Kathryn Hahn and Teyonah Parris. Director Matt Shakman has said the show will feature sitcom elements, which matches the theme established in the series’ one released poster. The poster features Wanda and the Vision dressed in 1950’s fashion, sitting in front of the TV in a well-kept suburban home. This hints at WandaVision being influenced by traditional 1950’s sitcoms such as Leave it to Beaver and Father Knows Best. In this post, I will explore other likely influences on the series, and make some guesses as to what the show will be like based on comic book history.

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