X-Files' comic book

[ethsnafu]

Hi chaps,

You are absolutely right. Photorealism brings a truly cinematic feel to his work and his X-Men covers are some of the most energetic and engaging I have seen in a long while. It is worth noting that in sharing with you the tone of critique coming from comic's fandom that the comics community appraises comic books with a totally different set of criteria than a genre fan who will critique the series as a 'Phile' rather than a comic aficionado. I must say I purchased the issue and it is wonderful and Denham's work is wonderful and as he has always stated the ability to trace would not on its own allow anyone to create the stunning work he produces. The problem, retrospectively, was that Denham sourced images from Google Image, adult magazines and fellow artist's work and so on with without securing the rights or acknowledging references. I am sure that Marvel's intervention has changed all that and I for one will support this comic for the duration of its run.

Best wishes,

Eth

[Blackoil]

News about issue #2:

Mulder and Scully race to uncover the truth about the apparent suicide of a government scientist. All evidence points to it being nothing more than a case of one man choosing to end his own life, but Mulder is convinced the evidence isn’t revealing everything. For Agent Fox Mulder, uncovering the truth is literally a case of life or death.

From show writer Frank Spotnitz, art by Brian Denham, cover by Tony Shasteen. 32pg. - Color - $3.50 US - On Sale December 17, 2008

COVER:

Source: https://weeklycomicbookreview.com/2008/09/1...-the-x-files-2/

[Guest betweenthelines]

Thanks for posting this! I was wondering when they were going to get around to releasing another issue of this comic.

[Guest Benocles]

Friends,

A few months ago I bought the entire X-FILES comic book series published by Topps (on eBay) and was very, very disappointed by the lack of originality and poor artwork. I tried the first couple of issue of the new series by DC and while the art is slightly better, I can't say I am a fan. It's very hard to engage in comic book series based on television shows as they never seem to be able to harness its 'feeling'. My two cents...

[Blackoil]

Read this interesting interview by Brian Denham, X-Files comic book illustrator!

https://www.xfilesnews.com/index.php?option...&Itemid=153

He talks about photo tracing. ;)

[Blackoil]

‘X-Files’ Producer/Director Frank Spotnitz Makes The Mythology Matter In New Wildstorm Comic Series

Published by Kiel Phegley on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 5:21 pm.

X-Files comic books — in the ’90s, four color tales of Agents Scully and Mulder heated up the comics charts and nabbed scores of cash on the back issue market before the comics industry and publisher, Topps, took a turn for the worse…along with the whole “X-Files” franchise (check out Kurt Loder’s visit to the “X-Files” set here). Now in November, DC’s Wildstorm imprint looks to reignite the series’ comic popularity with a miniseries featuring something the ’90s comics never had: a direct tie to the show’s overarching mythos.

“They are connected with a part of the mythology that we introduced but did very little with at the beginning of season five,” said writer Frank Spotnitz, a longtime scribe for the series and co-writer of July’s “I Want To Believe” film. “We introduced this corporation Roush and so that was part of the mythology that we could have gone a lot deeper with but never got the chance. So the next two books connect with Roush. And I’m going to take a little break from writing comics after this and get back to my screenwriting career, but at some point I hope to get back to write more and do more with the mythology.”

But while Spotnitz’s direct exploration of the show’s most successful period will only last a few months, the series will continue for five issues after that, presenting new stories of Scully and Mulder in classic form mixing it up with FBI Deputy Director Skinner, conspiracy nuts The Lone Gunman and the villainous Cigarette Smoking Man, all of whom appear in upcoming issues.

“It’s just fun to play with again,” he explained. “This is kind of an interesting thing about the comic books – in my imagination anyway – [it's] that they’re sort of ‘out of time.’ The situation is the situation that we found between seasons two and five of the series. And yet, they’re wearing clothes and using technology that is contemporary of today. It’s not like they’re period pieces. It’s sort of like they’re unstuck from time. I look at them as if that situation in ‘The X-Files’ were still going on today; a sort of parallel universe to the one that we have in the movie.”

With that last movie underperforming at the box office this summer, long time X-Philes will be glad to know that the creator’s plans for future comics series will continue to play in the show’s glory years with new stories focusing on various mythological elements not fully developed in the show. And if Spotnitz has his way, those tales will be penned by both past “X-Files” writers as well as some of his big name comic writing pals, including Brad Meltzer and Brian K Vaughan.

“We have some writers from the TV series who have expressed interest like John Shiban and David Amann, but they all have busy television careers. But in the meantime I’d love to see some other established comic book writers try their hand at the ‘X-Files.’ And that’s what’s great about comic book series is you’re a lot freer to explore and experiment and do things that are out there.”

And if readers get behind the expanded in-continuity comics treatment “X-Files” is getting, Spotnitz doesn’t rule out more series based on his friend Chris Carter’s universe of TV series. “I think it’s a great idea; I still love all those titles. Every single show we did with Chris at 1013 I have great affection for. Especially ‘Harsh Realm’ and ‘Lone Gunman’ I think ended before their time. And I have to tell you, everywhere I go people are always asking me if there’s going to be a ‘Millennium’ movie or something, so I suspect there’s a hardcore audience out there that’s still wanting it.”

Source: https://splashpage.mtv.com/2008/10/22/x-fil...m-comic-series/ --- There are 6 fisrt pages of the new issue!

[Blackoil]

I'm not really into comic books but I've heard that Brian K. Vaughan is a really big name in comic book industry. Is it right?

[Guest Laurent.]

Pretty cool! Thanks Blackoil

[Orodromeus]

“They are connected with a part of the mythology that we introduced but did very little with at the beginning of season five,” said writer Frank Spotnitz, a longtime scribe for the series and co-writer of July’s “I Want To Believe” film. “We introduced this corporation Roush and so that was part of the mythology that we could have gone a lot deeper with but never got the chance. So the next two books connect with Roush. And I’m going to take a little break from writing comics after this and get back to my screenwriting career, but at some point I hope to get back to write more and do more with the mythology.”

Roush! On that part I fully agree with Frank, Roush was one thread that offered huge narrative opportunities! You will understand my excitement when I read that more canon mythology is on the way! Although I haven't bought beyond issue #0 yet -- Juri, you order them off the internet?

[Blackoil]

Although I haven't bought beyond issue #0 yet -- Juri, you order them off the internet?

I have to shamefully admit I haven't bought it yet. Although I won issue #0 in a contest at WeeklyComicBookReview.com but I didn't receive my copy because of my stupidity. A letter informing me that I won a zero issue dropped to my inbox on August 1st -- at that time I was on my vaccation and I didn't check my inbox for 3 weeks. And when I checked it and wrote a letter to the contest coordinator he said that my issue had been already shipped to another person because I didn't answer his letter in 72 hours LOL I have to say I was REALLY frustrated and angry LOL But this dude was kind enough to send me a link to download a digital copy of the comic book LOL So the moral is: you have to check your inbox every day! ;)

I plan to order issues #0 and #1 though. Oro, can you recommend some online comic book shops that ship internationally?

And yes, I'm also excited about Roush storyline! I really liked those teaser pages!

And I'm curious about Shiban and Amann's stories! Shiban can write something very bad or something very good LOL