X-Files: Season 10 #10 Preview: A Sequel To One of the Show's Most Memorable Episodes

In tomorrow's issue of The X-Files: Season 10, Joe Harris and menton3 take on the daunting job of [...]

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In tomorrow's issue of The X-Files: Season 10, Joe Harris and menton3 take on the daunting job of crafting a sequel to 1996's one-and-done X-Files episode "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man." In the episode, the Cigarette Smoking Man is depicted as having assassinated John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as orchestrating a numebr of other 20th Century historical event such as the American defeat of the Russians in the "Miracle on Ice." It's set against a subplot of the Cigarette Smoking Man as an aspiring novelist, nearly giving up a life of secretly running the world when it seems as though he may have had his first big breakthrough. While many of the events depicted in the episode were later dismissed as apocryphal or exaggerated, it lent some context to the Cigarette Smoking Man's personality and helped to humanize him at a time in the series when that was something the producers felt needed to happen.  Glen Morgan, who wrote the episode, described it as having been based on The episode was inspired by the DC Comics graphic novel Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography, and said that the idea was to show just how dangerous and ruthless the Cigarette Smoking Man was. Check out the solicitation text and preview pages below. THE X-FILES: SEASON 10 #10 Written by Joe Harris Art by menton3 Published by IDW Publishing Release Date: March 12, 2014 "More Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" The ubiquitous foe of Agents Mulder and Scully has returned from the dead, raising many questions and burying many answers. Find out more about his resurrection, along with his past, in this special stand-alone story, which sets the stage for the next big story arc!

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