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November 19, 2015
The X-Files: Season 11 #7 Solicited for February
IDW has released their solicits for product shipping in February, 2016 including THE X-FILES: SEASON 11 #7 (which, incidentally, is Part Three of “Endgames” our Season 11 Finale)!
The X-Files: Season 11 #7
Joe Harris (w) • Matthew Dow Smith (a) • menton3 (c)
“Endgames,” Part 2 (of 3): Gibson Praise sees his master plan close to becoming reality. Will Mulder and Scully be able to stop him? Will they really want to? Find out in the stunning finale of Season 11, which starts here!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
The X-Files: Season 11 #7—Subscription Variant
Joe Harris (w) • Matthew Dow Smith (a) • photo (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
The X-Files: Season 11 #7—Valentine’s Day Card Variant
Joe Harris (w) • Matthew Dow Smith (a) • Robert Hack (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
•Leading up to next month’s season finale!
•Executive produced by The X-Files creator Chris Carter!
•Based on the TV show, which has returned to Fox!
•Part of IDW’s big Valentine’s Day promotion!
Exclusive Expanded Preview of Snowfall #1
The Onion’s A.V. Club is running a special 10-page expanded preview of SNOWFALL #1!
With their last Image Comics series, Great Pacific, writer Joe Harris and artist Martín Morazzo revealed their fascination with climate change and political intrigue by telling the story of a fugitive oil heir that settles the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Those two plot elements are also at the core of their new ongoing Image endeavor launching in February: the politically charged sci-fi thriller Snowfall. Set 30 years in the future, Snowfall imagines a world where corporations rule the “Cooperative States of America” and climate change has gotten so bad that snow has become a phenomenon of the past. This extended preview of Snowfall #1 details the status quo of the series and introduces the one man fighting against a broken system, The White Wizard, combining world-building and action to thrust the reader into the setting. Joined by colorist Kelly Fitzpatrick, letterer Michael David Thomas, and designer Tom Muller, Harris and Morazzo kick off the book with an intriguing start, but readers will have to wait until February to learn more about this bleak near future.
Snowfall On the Cover of December’s Previews Catalog
I’ve been in and out of the comics industry for too many years to count, honestly, but this is the first time I’ve ever had a book on the cover of Diamond’s Previews catalog!
Also… check out Image Comics’ special #OwnIt ad they’re running inside!
November 17, 2015
Coming this February from Image Comics: SNOWFALL
SNOWFALL #1
STORY: JOE HARRISART / COVER: MARTÍN MORAZZO
FEBRUARY 17 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
Writer JOE HARRIS (The X-Files) and artist MARTÍN MORAZZO (Vertigo Quarterly), creators of GREAT PACIFIC, reunite for a brand new ongoing science-fiction series and an OVERSIZED DEBUT ISSUE featuring thirty-two pages of story!
In the year 2045 it no longer snows. A catastrophic crash has left the climate ravaged, society splintered, and the newly-christened “Cooperative States of America” propped up and administered by the powerful Hazeltyne Corporation. Only one man wages an all-out weather war against the system, wielding the forces of nature themselves as weapons. He is the White Wizard. The ghost in the night. Genius. Terrorist. Outlaw. Hero?
You can read the press release from Image Comics here, with preview pages to follow:
An all-new series set in a post-snow world where weather is a weapon
Bestselling writer Joe Harris (The X-Files) and artist Martín Morazzo (Vertigo Quarterly), creators of GREAT PACIFIC, reunite for an all-new ongoing science-fiction series set in the year 2045—where it no longer snows.“With Snowfall, we’re presenting a 21st century America in which the climate has gone completely to shit and where fully recognized corporate personhood and control isn’t just accepted, but necessary. The time for industry forces lying about the effects of climate change have long passed,” said Harris. “They’ve moved on to profiting mightily from managing the fallout now. The haves enjoy the resources to mitigate the damage while the have-nots suffer the effects more acutely, living in these resettlement zones that are jointly administered by those same corporate forces with their fingerprints all over the crash. And it’s against this backdrop that resistance takes place. It isn’t clean, pretty or neat. Sometimes, we’re going to see, it’s not even that noble a fight. But desperation makes men do desperate things. This is a series with plenty of sci-fi action, ‘mad scientist’ manipulations and schemes, and a protagonist who may—or may not—be the greatest super-villain in history, depending on who writes it. It’s a story about humanity seeking dominion over forces beyond its control, the inevitable backlash, and the desperate attempt to reclaim, rebuild and redeem.”
In SNOWFALL #1, readers are introduced to a world where a catastrophic crash has left the climate ravaged, society splintered, and the newly-christened “Cooperative States of America” propped up and administered by the powerful Hazeltyne Corporation.
In the bleak world of SNOWFALL, only one man can wage an all-out weather war against the system, wielding the forces of nature themselves as weapons. He is the White Wizard. The ghost in the night. Genius. Terrorist. Outlaw. Hero?
Morazzo added: “As we strove to do with Great Pacific, this new series presents a visually unique world where environmental catastrophe meets science fiction adventure. The look and feel for 2045 is both bleak and beautiful and filled with both dread and promise all at once. I am incredibly proud of this work!”
SNOWFALL #1 (Diamond Code DEC150539) will hit comic book stores on Wednesday, February 17th. The final order cutoff deadline for comic book retailers is Monday, January 25th.
November 7, 2015
The X-Files: Season 11 #4 Preview
The X-Files: Season 11 #4, the finale of our Peacock Family Reunion, “Home Again” Part Three comes out next week, 11/11 and IDW has dropped a preview.
October 6, 2015
My 2015 New York Comic Con Details & Schedule
The hometown show looms this week and I’m bringing a lot of stuff down to the Javits Center including all the X-FILES books you could possibly want… the SEASON 10 hardcovers, the SEASON 11 comics (including issue #3, out this week), scripts, a highly limited print illustrated by my wonderful collaborator, Matthew Dow Smith and signed and slipcased by me and the brand new MILLENNIUM collected edition trade that just came out… in addition to the usual compliment of GREAT PACIFIC trades, my Oni Press graphic novels, GHOST PROJEKT, SPONTANEOUS and WARS IN TOYLAND, and those spiffy new ALICE COOPER hardcovers Dynamite just released.
First off, I’ll be spending the great majority of the convention in ARTIST ALLEY — the best room in comics, for my money — TABLE #AA-2.
I’m also going to be signing at the following places:
THURSDAY 10/8 – 3:00 – 400: X-Files Signing (IDW Booth #1844)
SUNDAY 10/11 – 3:00 – 3:45: Great Pacific Signing w/ Martin Morazzo (Image Comics Booth #1544)
**I might have a sneak peek at our upcoming Image series on hand at the show too (just don’t tell anybody!)
The X-Files: Season 11 #3: “Home Again” Part Two Out This Week
Part of “Home Again,” featuring the return of the nefarious Peacock Family, is out this week when The X-Files: Season 11 #3 drops on 10/7 and IDW Publishing has released a preview.
The X-Files: Season 11 #3
Joe Harris (w) • Matthew Dow Smith (a) • menton3 (c)
“Home Again,” Part 2 of 2: Despite his fugitive status, Mulder continues to investigate X-Files along the highways and byways of America. His latest stop is a secluded farm, which happens to be the new home of the infamous Peacock family!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Bullet points:
· The X-Files is back with an all-new status quo!
· Executive produced by The X-Files creator Chris Carter!
· Featuring the infamous Peacock family!
· Part of IDW’s Artist’s Edition Month promotion!
September 17, 2015
Coming In December: The X-Files: Season 11 #5 and X-Files X-Mas Special
Two big installments of our new SEASON 11 comics are dropping for THE X-FILES this December as the single-issue spotlight on Gibson Praise leads us into an all new, double-sized X-FILES X-MAS SPECIAL that will continue our Mytharc action as things really start heating up.
The X-Files: Season 11 #5
Joe Harris (w) • Matthew Dow Smith (a) • menton3 (c)
In this standalone tale, we delve in the past of Gibson Praise, the current source of antagonism for agents Scully and Mulder. The Syndicate wasn’t the only faction that pursued the child prodigy—and continues to do so to this day…
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
The X-Files: Season 11 #5—Subscription Variant
Joe Harris (w) • Matthew Dow Smith (a) • photo (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
The X-Files: Season 11 #5—Archie Anniversary Variant
Joe Harris (w) • Matthew Dow Smith (a) • Robert Hack (c)
A variant cover from Robert Hack, where Mulder and Scully meet Sabrina the Teenage Witch!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Bullet points:
The X-Files is back with an all-new status quo!
Executive produced by The X-Files creator Chris Carter!
· Featuring a tribute cover Celebrating Archie’s Anniversary by Robert Hack!
The X-Files X-Mas Special—SPOTLIGHT
Joe Harris (w) • Matthew Dow Smith (a) • menton3(c)
Special Season 11 tie-in! Just in time for the holiday season, the Lone Gunmen learn of the impending arrival of some unwelcome visitors. But before they can raise the alarm, they receive some other unexpected guests…
FC • 48 pages • $7.99
The X-Files X-Mas Special—Subscription Variant
Joe Harris (w) • Matthew Dow Smith (a) • photo(c)
FC • 48 pages • $7.99
Bullet points:
· Double-sized story by the regular Season 11 team ofJoe Harris, Matthew Dow Smith and Jordie Bellaire!
September 4, 2015
The Peacocks Return in The X-Files: Season 11 #2
The second issue of our spiffy new THE X-FILES: SEASON 11 series comes out next week and features the return of everyone’s favorite incestuous mutant family, The Peacocks in “Home Again” Part One. IDW has dropped a preview for your previewing…
The X-Files: Season 11 #2
Joe Harris (w) • Matthew Dow Smith (a) • menton3 (c)
“Home Again,” Part 1 of 2: Despite his fugitive status, Mulder continues to investigate X-Files along the highways and byways of America. His latest stop is a secluded farm, which he soon discovers to be the new home of the infamous Peacock family!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Bullet points:
– The X-Files is back with an all-new status quo!
– Executive produced by The X-Files creator Chris Carter!
August 5, 2015
The X-Files: Season 11 #1 Previewed
Possibly the most controversial preview we’ll ever drop: THE X-FILES: SEASON 11 #1 comes out next Wednesday, 8/12…
Written by: Joe Harris.
Art by: Matthew Dow Smith.
Cover by: menton3
Mulder has become a fugitive from a government that considers him a “secrets stealer” on the order of Julian Assange or Edward Snowden thanks to the mechanizations of “The Glasses-Wearing Man.” It’s up to Scully, and what allies Mulder has left, to work to clear his name and keep the government itself from falling further into the villain’s clutches.
Pages: 32.
Price: $3.99.
In stores: August 12.
