X-Men: Hellfire Vigil #1

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

An impressive, if overpriced, achievement, uniting the the entire cast of the X-books, with some wonderful bits and bobs and emotional moments to be had. 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

Roberneusa

Jul 03, 2025

It's not a big, impactful event or a great saga. But there's something special here. Characters who are little remembered or underrated ,appear. Doop, Caliban, Feral (yes, they told me and I didn't believe it, but in the background if we enlarge the image we see her with a black dress and her unmistakable hair). Some justice was done.

Jawnyblaze

Jul 10, 2025

I mostly enjoyed this book. With such a huge cast and so many stories to address it was always going to be difficult to completely nail it, but I enjoyed a lot more of it than I didn't. It was certainly distinct from a Gala, and appropriately somber as a Vigil. I especially appreciated Cyclops' reaction; it felt very in character to look at it through a more pragmatic lens and it took someone else to make him realize that something like this is needed. What worked least for me was all the Dazzler singing. I really like Dazzler as a character and I read her books when she gets her own, but any time there's "singing" scenes I skip all the lyrics. It's a lot of wasted time and page real estate. That's a minor gripe, though. My only oth er minor gripe is that the outfits were very subdued. I get that's also appropriate for this sort of event, but the flashy new outfits were always my favorite part of the Galas heh. Again, a tiny gripe and I completely understand why it was how it was. more

Kenjamin

Oct 07, 2025

Art: 3.5/5 Story: 3/5 Total: 6.5/10

Williamflipper

Jul 02, 2025

Just a mediocre release. Professionally made garbage. Storm deserves a better treatment.

Criminology.

Jul 07, 2025

i would love to write a review on this, but honestly it's so boring and so stuffed with characters and writing styles and things i kinda like and i dont really that i dont know where to begin. I understand the need to unite for a bit an era that is at its core very isolated, but in this issue also the different titles feel isolated and a lot of it feels dragged out. Also its overly santimental, not in the griefing for krakoa, but just in the characters interacting with each other. It does not ring true to them and to the nuances and maturity that those character are prone to displaying.

Briton

Jul 09, 2025

A mess.

DabidK

Jul 02, 2025

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.

Chris Y

Jul 02, 2025

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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JBL Reviews - Jul 2, 2025

Yeah I literally stopped paying for any X-Men books. I read a couple on Marvel Unlimited for free, but not worth my dollar. I thought about preordering this, but wanted to see reviews. I think the crowd that LOVES what’s happening in the X-Men books have much different tastes than I do.

Chris Y - Jul 2, 2025 (edited)

Yeah. I think the crowd that loves the current X-books doesn't really exist. They are trying to cater to a demographic that doesn't actually read superhero comics. And you can't trust the professional reviews anymore. I don't believe that any of the pro reviewers actually think this is good.

Chris Y - Jul 2, 2025

The Comic Book Revolution review is pretty accurate, but much too kind and forgiving.