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One year ago, at the final Hellfire Gala, the dream of a unified mutant nation was forever shattered by a cowardly sneak attack by anti-mutant forces. To mark the moment and to proclaim loudly and strongly to all concerned that mutantkind still stands, the time has come for X-Men of all stripes to come together in solidarity and celebration. Written and drawn by the creators of the entire X-line, and featuring the meetings and moments that fans have been asking for since FROM THE ASHES began! A keystone moment marking the movement of one era into the next and setting up story threads that will play out across the X-line across the next year!
X-Men Hellfire Vigil Issue 1 is warm, engaging, and expansive. There's a delicacy to the dialogue and details in the drawings that show every mutant's individuality. Read Full Review
X-Men: Hellfire Vigil #1 was a beautifully put-together comic with talent from all across the board. Seeing all the writers and artists from the mutant stories I've loved since the end of Krakoa come together on one event was spectacular, to say the least. Hats off to everyone who worked on X-Men: Hellfire Vigil #1! Read Full Review
Your enjoyment of X-Men: Hellfire Vigil #1 may come down to how involved you already are in the associated series. As an introduction to the current status quo and sample of the series, it isn't bad. However, it is disappointing how roughly a third of the book seems like a distraction from the title event. Read Full Review
X-Men: Hellfire Vigil #1 is not a bad comic, it is a bad Hellfire event comic. Trying to balance the first Hellfire Gala's crossover format with the page limits of the following two galas, the Hellfire Vigil becomes a mishmash. The feeling it leaves behind is that Marvel Comics wanted to have its cake and eat it too. It wanted the fan engagement of a Hellfire Gala without putting in the time to build a book worth the moniker. The result reads like a series of rushed, disparate stories that are confusing and contradictory at times, sprinkled with far too few satisfying story beats. In a sense, it's a very accurate reflection on FROM THE ASHES... as a whole. Read Full Review
X-Men: Hellfire Vigil is a disappointing wasted opportunity by the X-Office. This comic book simply has way too many creative teams involved that the narrative is a mess. Editorial put each creative team in a box of only having a handful of pages to tell their segment before another team took over. All of the clashing art style further damper the experience that highlights how there was no momentum carried over to each segment. It is an unfortunate result for a comic book that had the potential to reach the heights of the Hellfire Gala at its best. Read Full Review
Just a mediocre release. Professionally made garbage. Storm deserves a better treatment.
It pains me to say it, but this was purest trash. The big scenes with Dazzler and Siryn are totally unbelievable, and the “romances” feel more forced and arbitrary than almost any on memory in X-Men comics. What happens to Dazzler simply would not be permitted by the X-Men—ever—and the whole “Graymalkin is a mutant prison now and the X-Men do nothing” story feels artificial and silly. This book badly needed editing and streamlining before it was ever allowed to be published.
I could write a detailed review, but I just don't know where to begin. Everything about this issue is horrible - the story, the art, the dialogue and especially the forced shipping of characters. Let's not even talk about Ororo's pregnancy test. It's as close to a saccharine Manga comic for girls as a superhero comic can get. You'd have to pay me to read another issue of this poor quality.
I'll probably check in again with the x-books in a few years, when all this woke bullshit has faded out of existence, but for the time being, I'm done. This was the final straw.
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