X-Files Comics Coming From IDW

IDW Publishing, who has one of the most critically-acclaimed and successful lines of licensed comics in American publishing, announced today that they had entered into a partnership with Fox that will allow them not only to reprint old X-Files comics from the series’ heyday, but also to release new X-Files comics.The new comics will launch in June of this year.”The X-Files is a classic property that helped redefine fans’ expectations for the science-fiction and horror genres,” said IDW’s President/Chief Operating Officer Greg Goldstein. “The possibilities for new comic stories are virtually unlimited!””The fans of The X-Files have remained loyal to the series since its conclusion. What better way to continue the show’s legacy and give back to them than through new stories in a different medium,” said Jeffrey Godsick, President of Fox Consumer Products. “IDW has worked with a number of our Fox properties, and we know they’re going to do great things with these iconic characters.””Few shows have captured the zeitgeist and fans’ imaginations like The X-Files, and fewer shows still have left people hungry for more in the way this one did,” said Chris Ryall, IDW’s Chief Creative Officer/Editor-in-Chief. “Our new series will be picking up where the second film left off, which will hopefully be as exciting for fans to read as it is for us to develop.”The X-Files saw sales success under Topps Comics back when the television series was on TV, and subsequently published a low-selling but critically-acclaimed miniseries from WildStorm comics. Whether former TV writer Frank Spotznitz, who wrote the 2008 miniseries, might be involved in the new IDW series is unclear.In 2009, The X-Files and IDW’s best-selling horror title 30 Days of Night crossed over, marking the more recent time Scully and Mulder appeared in any media.A third movie based on the long-running television series has been rumored ever since the second movie was in theaters, but no movement has happened on that since the release of X-Files: I Want to Believe in 2008.