With impressive storytelling and engaging art, Children of the Vault #1 perfectly sets up the rest of the exciting limited series. Children of the Vault is already one of the Fall of X era's most interesting series, because it is not only exploring the fascinating history and desires of the Children of the Vault, but also focusing on the complex interpersonal relationship between Bishop and Cable. Read Full Review

Children of the Vault #1 takes advantage of the tragedy befalling mutants to present Bishop's plight since arriving in the present. Writer Deniz Camp capitalizes on the comparisons that are present between humanity's various "people of tomorrow in the series. Since his arrival from the future Bishop's methods were more volatile than his fellow X-Men. The same could be said of Cable. Like the mutants and the Children there is a major distinction between the treatment of these two time displaced mutants. This was even more apparent once Cable was "fathered into the X-Men. But isn't it truly in keeping with the way of X to look beyond the way things appear. The illusions of acceptability or the prejudices they produce. To examine the intentions of the individual in an effort to understand their motivations. Read Full Review

Tune in again next issue to see whether this motley duo of bickering beefcakes can refrain from killing each other long enough to possibly prevail against a sextet of hyper-advanced meta-mutates who have basically already won in a world that thinks B&C are the enemies, and where there are essentially no other X-types around to rely on for, (let's see, avg. Earth Mars distance…) about 140 million miles. Read Full Review

This series is shaping up to be the silver lining of Hellfire Gala 2023 and perhaps a whole lot more. Read Full Review

Children of the Vault #1 is one of the X-Men stories that add additional information missed in the lives of mutant kind. This comic book will potentially be a part of the stories coming up next if there must be anything with the Children of the Vault involved. Be sure to pick this one up at your local comic book store or where copies are sold. Read Full Review

Children of the Vault #1 sets up a triangle of competing interests and hate and it'll be interesting to see how it shakes out. There's some clear possible allies here as well as possible enemies. Overall, it's a “Fall of X” piece of the puzzle that's frustrating in some ways but also creates an intriguing conflict ahead. Read Full Review

To its credit, Children of the Vault #1 is a pretty good package overall. Deniz Camps script moves quickly perhaps at the expense of exposition, which some might need and Luca Marescas action-packed art holds the readers attention. Camp puts some fun little details in the issue, such as Cables safehouse being a flower nursery called DaySpring or the way he hides in plain sight by making someone recognize him as Josh Brolin, which lighten the mood despite the world-shaking circumstances of the characters. The explanation of how the Children are proliferating themselves is also very interesting and relevant to our current times in a way I wont spoil. It may not be for everyone, but Children of the Vault #1 does offer an intriguing story about survival and assimilation that might be worth your time. Read Full Review

In the chaos of 'Fall of X', the boys from the future are fighting an unwinnable fight, and it's very hard to get invested in anything. Read Full Review

Lots of promising ideas and concepts here that make Deniz Camp picking up Ultimates in Hickman's universe a no-brainer.

Much better than I expected, but found the Bishop/Cable sections to be the good parts. Cable and Bishop vs. Orchis as the book would have been phenomenal.

Serafina and the rest of the Children of the Vault have served as a peripheral existential threat for nearly the entirety of the Krakoan Era, including an appearance in Jonathan Hickman’s X-MEN #1 back in 2019. Though they’ve played a supporting role during that time, the Fall of X wouldn’t be complete without the Children getting a chance to make an impression. And that they did in Deniz Camp’s CHILDREN OF THE VAULT #1.

Camp opens the new limited series with a quick retelling of what happened to Forge’s Project Blackbox after Krakoa fell. While it didn’t happen right away, the system’s failsafe mechanisms eventually stopped working leaving an open door for Serafina, Capitan, Perro, Prisa, Luz, and Atomo to leave their prison. Instead of immediately annihilating humans as they were previously programmed by the City to do, we see a more benevolent approach that has the Children becoming global celebrity heroes who help to eradicate large-scale societal issues like homelessness, hunger, and war. It seems like the same humans who turned their backs on mutants with a similar promise are ready for new saviors and popular opinion forces entire governments to completely submit to the Children. Camp does a great job building a world that feels eerily brainwashed by these new de-facto gods.

You may not have expected, but the Children aren’t actually the main characters of their self-titled series. Cable and Bishop act as the protagonists as begrudgingly team up to uncover how the Children were able to infiltrate society so easily. To get these two characters together after the ORCHIS attack, Camp shows us how a kidnapped Cable was able to resist torture and was broken out of captivity by Bishop. Via the effective use of a data page, Camp also informs us how Bishop has been taking out strategic targets and learned where Cable was being held as part of his larger plan to wipe out ORCHIS. Camp shows his knowledge of the pair’s complicated past throughout their time-traveling histories. These are two men who aren’t on each other’s holiday card mailing list and Camp doesn’t shy away from building tension between the two. This isn’t a buddy-cop adventure comic by any means, but Camp also finds way to showcase each character’s strengths and why they make a great team when they’re able to put their prior issues behind them.

Art by Luca Maresca and colors by Carlos Lopez offer a wide-range of skill, complementing Camp’s script well. Action-heavy scenes, such as when Bishop is breaking Cable out of the ORCHIS facility, move effortlessly from panel to panel allowing you to feel like you’re in the thick of things. One highlight for me was the color work Lopez does during an early scene in the book depicting a lithium field that is poisoning a local Chilean village but provides one of the only source of water for thirsty villagers.

With intriguing plot development, gorgeous artwork, and fan-favorite characters leading the way, CHILDREN OF THE VAULT #1 succeeds in further depicting a world turned upside-down after the Hellfire Gala. Not only does it keep your attention from start-to-finish, Camp is offering the type of social commentary that has always been the staple of a great comic book.

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This one JUST got to the 8/10 mark for me. I thought the premise of this was pretty interesting, and I think this issue did a fairly nice job of establishing a solid story going forward. I thought it did have a bit of a faster pace at times, but the book still maintained my interest throughout. I'm intrigued to see how the rest of the story unfolds.

First book from Deniz Camp that I read and it was really engaging.
Gotta set aside the EARTH-SHATTERING stuff that MAY or may NOT be referenced in other titles alongside... idk... the death of all mutants...
It's a LOT, it's a LOT all at once and my suspension of disbelief can only go so far.
But the core main characters of Cable and Bishop are a brilliant care and Camp and Maresca do their best to make these big-ass pills easy to swallow.

When Orchis captured Cable (X-Men #24), wasn't the variant they nabbed KID Cable?

I had a lot of fun reading this. There's entertaining dialogue, oodles of intriguing world-building, and a nice serving of humor. The art's clean and clear, with a lot of detail lavished on settings (something I appreciate because it's rarer than one would expect).

But problems are burbling under the surface. Even with top billing, the Children are STILL flat and forgettable as characters. Though I like the words, I think there are just too many of them. They often slow the pace to a crawl. The scope of the world-building veers wildly, and I think some of Mr. Camp's ideas are too big (The Children bootstrapping the whole world straight to Star Trek tech) or too small (We spend so much time with Rodrigo that he BETTER become Chekhov's orphan in future issues).

It's a hell of a lot of material to digest, and so far the process is fun despite the flaws.

(Also I have a soft spot for a comic that uses the word "semiotic" in an appropriate context.)
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The comic is a bit fast-paced and is based on the rivalry of Cable and Bishop. the worst part is the role of orchis in all this, an organization that plans to send sentinels to the fantastic four is afraid of attacking the children of the vault