Dynamite Reopens The X-Files With Joe Harris and a Post-Series Mystery

Dynamite Entertainment is bringing The X-Files back to comics, teaming writer Joe Harris with artist R.D. Brown for a new series launching December 9. Harris isn't new to the franchise, he's written X-Files comics for Dynamite before, and this time picks the story up after the events of the show's eleventh season.

The new series digs into the fallout from the Cigarette Smoking Man's death, Mulder and Scully's son William, and a fresh pregnancy for Scully, all while reopening the conspiracy-of-the-week engine that's always powered the franchise. Harris has said the premise only feels more relevant with each passing year, pointing to how comfortably the show's paranoia-driven storytelling maps onto the present.

With talk of a screen revival for the franchise having come and gone in fits and starts over the years, Dynamite's comic line continues to be the most consistent home for new X-Files stories, and issue #1 looks to lean hard into the show's unresolved mythology rather than starting fresh.

Original reporting: Comic Book Club Live.