The TV show kicks off this week, so columnist Fred Van Lente takes a (wise)crack at bringing you the best of robot-mutant love… By FRED VAN LENTE With the imminent arrival of the MCU show WandaVision on Disney+, I thought I’d try something a little different for this column. The trailers for the show feature Avengers paramours Wanda (Scarlet Witch) Maximoff and the Vision (no surname) trying to make a go at suburban bliss, the same theme as two Vision and the Scarlet Witch miniseries from the 1980s fondly remembered by me. The first, from 1982, written by Bill Mantlo, features some of the best work of one of the unheralded artists of the 1980s and ’90s, Rick Leonardi. The second, from 1985, drawn by Richard Howell and written by Steve Englehart — in whose Avengers run these two finally cashed in their mutual attraction and tied the knot — revolves around the Scarlet Witch’s… well, let’s call it her unexpected pregnancy. I’ve already told you about my fondness for Adam Strange and his Space Girlfriend as a goofy, romantic kid; my fandom for the star-crossed love between the robot and the mutant is of a kind. They could undoubtedly relate to each other because they have two of the most convoluted backstories in superhero history. Joss Whedon, regardless of his other flaws, did the world a service by providing a clean origin story for the Vision in Avengers: Age of Ultron. (Which also features a character co-created by Yours Truly.) Likewise, Scarlet Witch is the heroic daughter of the arch-villain Magneto, except for when she isn’t. WandaVision appears to be playing a lot with her tenuous grip on reality. Comics writers like doing this because of the sheer strangeness of her power set. “Hex bolts?” Hell is that? The MCU braintrust probably wisely made the Elizabeth Olsen version (also introduced in Age of Ultron) Jean Grey with Jazz Hands. In comics, things really started going downhill for Wanda when John Byrne rather spitefully undid her marriage in a West Coast Avengers run that out Alpha-Flighted his Alpha Flight in terms of sheer hero misery. He was the first person to drive Wanda crazy and literally broke down Vision. Did they owe him money? Brian Michael Bendis’ later Disassembled storyline hammers the nails into the coffin Byrne built by...