One thing that really ends up dating a comic is when it starts trying to talk about worldwide computer networks, and the subjugation of same, in a world that hadn't yet heard of the Internet. It all seems so...crude. As the Vision's plan swings into motion, and he catapults himself into the aether, I find myself wondering exactly how he's moving from computer to computer. In 1985, I'd imagine that there were only a very few networked computer systems in the world, and I'm pretty sure they weren't networked to one another.
Of course, I'm very probably demonstrating my complete ignorance of how pre-Internet (and, for that matter, post-Internet) computers were set up. It might be that his movement from the Pentagon to a S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, to the Kremlin is completely feasible.
Y'know, for an artificial psyche reduced to a coherent, sentient data package.
What I'm curious about for the next few issues is how the Avengers handle the Vision's plan. They know now what he's doing - and what he's doing is not really all that different from the vast majority of would-be world-conquerors, though he's certainly leaving much less of a mess. But then, how much easier would it be to take over the world in just this fashion if you had, basically, the trust of the world? This, perhaps, makes the Vision even more evil, though not from his own point of view, than someone like Doctor Doom or Darkseid. Not only is he removing choice and taking over, but he's also betraying a trust. The world might recover from a Vision-run computer network, but the Vision himself may not recover from this breach of trust.
To be continued.
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