Critical Role Vox Machina: Origins Volume 1

Read it the day it arrived, the art style is superb and it's good to see the characters while they were a bit dorky. Loved every page, it's a candy to look at

Amazing drawings

Simply Brilliant. Excellent quality graphic novel. Love silky feel to the cover. Beautiful artwork and a riveting storyline. I can't put it down!

Great read. Kept me booked from the beginning, right up to the last page. If your a fan of the show you will love this.

A must for critters out there! This is the story if how Vox Machina met, essentially re-telling the Critical Role gang's antics up until we join them at the beginning of Ep1 of campaign 1. The artwork is gorgeous and I love the look of the characters. Really colourful, clean lines. The writing is spot on as well as I can really link the characters with how they are portrayed by the CR team. Also I've really been waiting for this to come out hardcopy as althought digital is cool, I prefer having the real thing in my hand.

My husbands review of this graphic novel 🎲⚔️ Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins Vol 1 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨️ Art style - Very animated and engaging, fun noticing little details in the background. Plot - A very exciting introduction to the characters, plot lacking initial depth but has opened up room for a ton of expansion, as I'm sure there will be. Characters - Every character is lovable in very different ways, all with extremely different personalities, allowing for some fun conflict and banter between each of them. Readability (panel layout, lettering etc) - There was a lot of animation shown in each panel, which gave very clear indications of how characters were moving and descriptions of their actions. There were some panels that I found hard to discern between who was talking and in what order, but these were very few. Q - Was it as enjoyable as the show? Yes, the excitement, drama and the comedy matches up very well with the show. Q - Who was your favourite character? I love them all, although Vex and Vax both stand out as being extra bad*ss. I hope Tiberius sticks around for a while so I can see more of his character come out.

Only just hit the 50th episode of Vox Machina's journey and am already so incredibly invested in this amazing story. The comic is beautiful and I'm so happy to be able to learn more about their journey and support the amazing creators along the way! This would make a great gift for any one invested in Vox Machina's antics - though fair warning Percy is not present from the get go!

Bought as a gift, we’re both Critters and are obsessed. High quality product, amazing story, above and beyond our expectations

Giving a group of well-known heroes an origin story is no easy feat. When you've become a classic, it seems weird to work backwards and remember - how did this character feel 10 years ago? 20? Already having completed so many arcs and accomplishments, I would think it would be easy to get steeped in foreshadowing or forget to make a character more immature than we last saw them. No such thing happens with our beloved Vox Machina! We're immediately brought to a place of character where they are young, a little naive, struggling to understand each other and how they tick, not fully grasping the incredible friendships about to form in their future lives. It's very well done. Having been a very new fan to Critical Role and more familiar with the second season than the first season (the second being a new story with new characters) I thought that since I haven't seen every episode of the first season I would somehow be lost in the shuffle. I would feel like a newbie fan on the outside looking in, wishing I could get those inside jokes too. But I never felt that way! I felt like Matt Mercer and crew took my hand and said, "Here's what you need to get started! A little bit of Vex, Vax, Keyleth - and now, here's Scanlan, Grog, and Tiberius! And don't worry, there's more soon!" I am STOKED for the next comic that will hopefully see more of Pike and Percy. As far as a comic book goes, this is actually coming from someone who doesn't read comic books. My brain has never been able to quite enjoy nor grasp the graphic novel style of reading, it jumps from panel to panel in the incorrect order and I usually threw aside a comic in frustration of having read the same page over and over and realizing I was tuning it all out. I read the Spider-Man comics as a kid and that was IT for me. Recently, I picked up Jessica Jones (Alias Investigations) and Stumptown graphic novels. I worked really hard to read them and if I found my eyes were bouncing all over the page because *SoMeTiMEs* panels read left to right, or top to bottom, or spread across two pages from left to right and then the bottom half of both pages switched from top to bottom - I kept at it! I realized having characters that are admired and beloved honestly makes all the difference. Despite the difficulty I kept reading because I LOVED them. ANYWAY, that's just context for this: I didn't have ANY SUCH TROUBLE with the Critical Role/Vox Machina story. AT ALL. The pictures are so beautifully placed, thoughtfully drawn, the word bubbles don't spontaneously lead me on an eye labyrinth across the page. At no point did I hold a page under a lamp and squint so I could see what on earth the picture was. It read more like a gorgeous picture book. It felt organized. It went broad for big, cinematic scenes, and then narrowed again for intimate conversations. I never had a moment of confusion whatsoever. It didn't spontaneously give my eyes ADD or throw my gaze every which way to keep up with the action. I felt like without these distractions I was fully able to SOAK IN the story. And now instead of remembering my favorite scenes in flashes of big white word bubbles, I remember them by color and character expression. Favorite moments: Keyleth in the swamp, healing Vax, and her sweet friendly nature. Scanlan's way of greeting the group when they run into each other unexpectedly. Tiberius's warmth towards perfect strangers. ANYTHING WITH THE TWINS. At no point did I feel distracted by the format of a graphic novel as I usually would be. It's elegantly crafted, beautifully written and colored. Character voices SHINE through! I feel like I could hear each individual and distinct voice, never once did I think - huh, I wonder who wrote THIS line for this character? It felt like I was listening in at the Critical Role table and each actor came forward to read the lines out loud for me. It feels genuine and true to their character, while at the same time, portraying that younger self I mentioned. Congrats to the artists and the Critical Role team. What a great story!

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Como siempre, excelente historia de Criticsl Role

I had to send this back. The book came damaged on the edges. If it was for me, I'd survive it...sure, I'd be mad, but would survive. But that was not the case - I bought it as a Christmas present for someone. So yeah, no, I won't be giving anyone a book that was damaged in the packing process. I chose the option to get a new one. That one came less damaged, but still a bit ugly on the edges. Handle it with care, please!

If you're here by choice, you already know what this is, and yes, it's as good as the show. If you're here accidentally, and don't know what Vox Machina, or Critical Role are, do yourself a favor and lookup the following on YouTube: Arrival at Kraghammer - Critical Role RPG Show: Episode 1 (This is a short 3 hour episode). The story telling starts out awesome, and just gets better, and better as time goes by. Note: First few episodes used copyright items when initially streamed for small parts of the show (mainly intros, and breaks) so some items may be blurred out until they have their own to replace them on the You Tube versions. The show starts with characters at level 7 so you miss much of what happens before this first episode, including their origins. These Origins volumes aim to fill in the gaps of what happened before episode 1 aired, one story at a time. This is the first of at least 3, hopefully more, origins volumes!