Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins

Vox Machina
Trade paperback cover art by Stjepan Sejic
Group publication information
PublisherDark Horse Comics
First appearanceCritical Role: Vox Machina – Origins vol. 1 #1 (September 2017)
Created byMatthew Mercer
Cast of Critical Role
In-story information
Type of organizationAdventuring party
Agent(s)Vax'ildan "Vax" Vessar
Vex'ahlia "Vex" Vessar
Keyleth of the Air Ashari
Scanlan Shorthalt
Grog Strongjaw
Tiberius Stormwind
Pike Trickfoot
Percival "Percy" Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III
Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins
Series publication information
ScheduleIrregular
FormatLimited series
GenreFantasy
Dungeons & Dragons
Publication dateSeptember 2017 – present
Number of issues18
Creative team
Writer(s)Matthew Colville (vol. 1)
Jody Houser (vol. 2–4)
Artist(s)Olivia Samson (vol. 1–3)
Noah Hayes (vol. 4)
Letterer(s)Chris Northrop (vol. 1)
Ariana Maher (vol. 2–4)
Colorist(s)Chris Northrop (vol. 1)
MSASSYK (vol. 2–3)
Diana Sousa (vol. 3–4)
Creator(s)Matthew Mercer
Cast of Critical Role
Editor(s)F. Avedon-Arcadio Barrera II (vol. 1)
Rachel Roberts (vol. 1–2)
Jenny Blenk (vol. 1–2)

Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins is a comic series, published by Dark Horse Comics, based on the American Dungeons & Dragons web series Critical Role. The comics act as a prequel story and covers how the characters became the adventuring party known as Vox Machina before the events of the web series. Matthew Colville was the writer on the first volume with Jody Houser becoming the writer on the subsequent three volumes. Olivia Samson was the artist on the first three volumes with Noah Hayes becoming the artist on the fourth volume.

The first six issues were published digitally, starting in September 2017, followed by print collections of the issues released in May 2018 and October 2019. A second set of six issues followed in 2019, both digitally and in print, and was also collected into a printed volume in August 2020. A third volume, with six issues released both digitally and in print, was published in 2021 with its print collection following in November 2022. A fourth volume has been announced for release in 2024.