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The X-Files Classics #3
X-Files Classics Volume 3 (The X-Files
Mulder and Scully continue to chase down leads in the most bizarre and unexplained cases the FBI has ever seen! Collecting issues #20-29, X-Files Classics Volume 2 features the two-part "Family Portrait," "Donor," "Silver Lining," the three-part "Remote Control," and more!
236 pages, Hardcover
First published January 21, 2014
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Kevin J. Anderson
1,029 books3,085 followersYes, I have a lot of books, and if this is your first visit to my amazon author page, it can be a little overwhelming. If you are new to my work, let me recommend a few titles as good places to start. I love my Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. series, humorous horror/mysteries, which begin with DEATH WARMED OVER. My steampunk fantasy adventures, CLOCKWORK ANGELS and CLOCKWORK LIVES, written with Neil Peart, legendary drummer from Rush, are two of my very favorite novels ever. And my magnum opus, the science fiction epic The Saga of Seven Suns, begins with HIDDEN EMPIRE. After you've tried those, I hope you'll check out some of my other series.
I have written spin-off novels for Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E., and The X-Files, and I'm the co-author of the Dune prequels. My original works include the Saga of Seven Suns series and the Nebula Award-nominated Assemblers of Infinity. I have also written several comic books including the Dark Horse Star Wars collection Tales of the Jedi written in collaboration with Tom Veitch, Predator titles (also for Dark Horse), and X-Files titles for Topps.
I serve as a judge in the Writers of the Future contest.
My wife is author Rebecca Moesta. We currently reside near Monument, Colorado.
I have written spin-off novels for Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E., and The X-Files, and I'm the co-author of the Dune prequels. My original works include the Saga of Seven Suns series and the Nebula Award-nominated Assemblers of Infinity. I have also written several comic books including the Dark Horse Star Wars collection Tales of the Jedi written in collaboration with Tom Veitch, Predator titles (also for Dark Horse), and X-Files titles for Topps.
I serve as a judge in the Writers of the Future contest.
My wife is author Rebecca Moesta. We currently reside near Monument, Colorado.
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December 23, 2020
This started off with some weak issues but really picked up in the second half.
#20-#21: Family Portrait: Gallery / The Camera Eye (2 Parts) · ★★
The mummified corpse of Henry Franklin, a tourist photographer, is found. Mulder and Scully investigate, learning that his neighbors feared him and tourists who had their pictures taken by him got sick and died. An old portrait camera may help solve the mystery. Mulder finds Henry Franklin's journal, learns about the camera's original owner, and discovers that the camera captures a subject's life force, feeds it to a parasitic incubus, leaving a mummified corpse. The incubus is starved for souls and Scully is its next victim.
#22: The Kanishibari · ★★½
Students at a Hawaii university are dying mysteriously. Native superstition suggests that they may be the target of a Kanishibari - a choking ghost . Scully and Mulder are stonewalled by the survivors and the killing spree accelerates as they uncover the reason for the students' silence.
#23: Donor · ★★★½
Someone is harvesting transplanted organs from recent recipients. All of the organs came from the same man. Mulder and Scully interview the organ donor's widow and family while the killer collects his remaining organs.
#24: Silver Lining · ★★★
Scully and Mulder investigate a series of murders in which all of the victims claimed to have been adbucted by aliens. A link to all the murders is a disfigured man wearing a black coat with a metallic silver lining, which one victim claimed was an alien broadcasting unit.
#25-#26: Be Prepared (2 Parts) · ★★★★
In Montana, Mulder and Scully listen to a young scout describe an attack on his scoutmaster and the scoutmasters' subsequent horrific behavior. Following a lead on snowshoes, the agents may become the next victims of Windigo, cannibalistic giants lurking in the woods. Mulder and Scully find the scoutmaster suspected of killing several members of his troop, but he gets away with Mulder's gun. Continuing their search, the agents find the rest of the scout troop and have a final showdown with the killer.
#27-#29: Remote Control (3 Parts) · ★★★★½
Psychics who participated in CIA and DIA programs are dying unnatural deaths. A former program director informs Mulder and Scully that it might be an inside job. One of the psychics is missing and might be working for Libya. He is watching a government facility housing a saucer. Libyans hijack a government convoy transporting an alien craft. Mulder and Scully convince a psychic to track the Libyans, but the agents are themselves tracked down and captured by unknown assailants. Scully is badly injured. Mulder is a prisoner of the Libyans. Scully returns to the psyhic and asks him to find Mulder. Mulder is about to die when Crocket arrives, a killing ghost who lets Mulder live but doesn't give any answers.
#20-#21: Family Portrait: Gallery / The Camera Eye (2 Parts) · ★★
The mummified corpse of Henry Franklin, a tourist photographer, is found. Mulder and Scully investigate, learning that his neighbors feared him and tourists who had their pictures taken by him got sick and died. An old portrait camera may help solve the mystery. Mulder finds Henry Franklin's journal, learns about the camera's original owner, and discovers that the camera captures a subject's life force, feeds it to a parasitic incubus, leaving a mummified corpse. The incubus is starved for souls and Scully is its next victim.
#22: The Kanishibari · ★★½
Students at a Hawaii university are dying mysteriously. Native superstition suggests that they may be the target of a Kanishibari - a choking ghost . Scully and Mulder are stonewalled by the survivors and the killing spree accelerates as they uncover the reason for the students' silence.
#23: Donor · ★★★½
Someone is harvesting transplanted organs from recent recipients. All of the organs came from the same man. Mulder and Scully interview the organ donor's widow and family while the killer collects his remaining organs.
#24: Silver Lining · ★★★
Scully and Mulder investigate a series of murders in which all of the victims claimed to have been adbucted by aliens. A link to all the murders is a disfigured man wearing a black coat with a metallic silver lining, which one victim claimed was an alien broadcasting unit.
#25-#26: Be Prepared (2 Parts) · ★★★★
In Montana, Mulder and Scully listen to a young scout describe an attack on his scoutmaster and the scoutmasters' subsequent horrific behavior. Following a lead on snowshoes, the agents may become the next victims of Windigo, cannibalistic giants lurking in the woods. Mulder and Scully find the scoutmaster suspected of killing several members of his troop, but he gets away with Mulder's gun. Continuing their search, the agents find the rest of the scout troop and have a final showdown with the killer.
#27-#29: Remote Control (3 Parts) · ★★★★½
Psychics who participated in CIA and DIA programs are dying unnatural deaths. A former program director informs Mulder and Scully that it might be an inside job. One of the psychics is missing and might be working for Libya. He is watching a government facility housing a saucer. Libyans hijack a government convoy transporting an alien craft. Mulder and Scully convince a psychic to track the Libyans, but the agents are themselves tracked down and captured by unknown assailants. Scully is badly injured. Mulder is a prisoner of the Libyans. Scully returns to the psyhic and asks him to find Mulder. Mulder is about to die when Crocket arrives, a killing ghost who lets Mulder live but doesn't give any answers.
November 29, 2022
(Zero spoiler review)
Three volumes in and sadly, very little has changed. Whilst the writing and art duties are currently being shared. The new writer artist combination is a marked improvement on Charlie Adlard's dreadful art and Stefan Petrucha's horrendous writing, but its still a far from anything approaching decent. Trying to tell an authentic X-files story in 22 pages is far from an enviable task, so I can empathise with the writers to a certain extent, although they signed up for the gig. Unsurprisingly, the two and three issue arcs come the closest to actually yelling a full and complete story, even if they are still a far cry from compelling. Occasionally I'll buy into the fact that the characters I'm reading are Scully and Mulder, but for the most part this is limp, lamp and about the furthest thing from the lightning in a bottle they stumbled upon during the television series. The first few years of it anyway.
I'm legitimately shocked at how high the current score for this book is on this site. I certainly disagree, and would suggest considerable caution before dropping any money on this disappointing collection. 2/5
OmniBen.
Three volumes in and sadly, very little has changed. Whilst the writing and art duties are currently being shared. The new writer artist combination is a marked improvement on Charlie Adlard's dreadful art and Stefan Petrucha's horrendous writing, but its still a far from anything approaching decent. Trying to tell an authentic X-files story in 22 pages is far from an enviable task, so I can empathise with the writers to a certain extent, although they signed up for the gig. Unsurprisingly, the two and three issue arcs come the closest to actually yelling a full and complete story, even if they are still a far cry from compelling. Occasionally I'll buy into the fact that the characters I'm reading are Scully and Mulder, but for the most part this is limp, lamp and about the furthest thing from the lightning in a bottle they stumbled upon during the television series. The first few years of it anyway.
I'm legitimately shocked at how high the current score for this book is on this site. I certainly disagree, and would suggest considerable caution before dropping any money on this disappointing collection. 2/5
OmniBen.
November 18, 2018
X-Files stories that ring true to the series!
This volume continues the Tops Comics X-Files series. I love it when an X-Files tales ends on a cliffhanger! That indicates that there is more to the story, yet to be revealed. The basis of X-Files is deception and misdirection. I wonder if we could ever consider any X-File solved.
The book opens on a new case…
An old camera hides a sinister secret…
A supernatural strangler haunts Hawaii…
An organ donor returns for his donated body parts…
A man deformed in an automobile accident is somehow draining life force from other people…
A scout troop finds themselves menaced by a wendigo—or are they?
A secret airbase holds a UFO, and people are being remotely controlled…
The stories are solid X-File cases! Monster of the week, hidden secrets, and UFOs always marked the TV series. I believe these could have easily been TV plots! I give this graphic novel five stars!
Quoth the Raven…
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This volume continues the Tops Comics X-Files series. I love it when an X-Files tales ends on a cliffhanger! That indicates that there is more to the story, yet to be revealed. The basis of X-Files is deception and misdirection. I wonder if we could ever consider any X-File solved.
The book opens on a new case…
An old camera hides a sinister secret…
A supernatural strangler haunts Hawaii…
An organ donor returns for his donated body parts…
A man deformed in an automobile accident is somehow draining life force from other people…
A scout troop finds themselves menaced by a wendigo—or are they?
A secret airbase holds a UFO, and people are being remotely controlled…
The stories are solid X-File cases! Monster of the week, hidden secrets, and UFOs always marked the TV series. I believe these could have easily been TV plots! I give this graphic novel five stars!
Quoth the Raven…
BuyItHere>
July 4, 2016
The opening two-parter is a great story written by the experienced X-Files novelist Kevin J. Anderson. A serial killer is given an added edge with an ancient camera which feeds on the souls of the images it takes. Good fun.
In other stories there’s a memorable plot about an organ donor who returns from the dead to remove his donated organs and a decent three parter called remote control which has an interesting plot. On this form, I look forward to Volume 4 of the reprints but unfortunately it isn’t available until the summer of 2014.
In other stories there’s a memorable plot about an organ donor who returns from the dead to remove his donated organs and a decent three parter called remote control which has an interesting plot. On this form, I look forward to Volume 4 of the reprints but unfortunately it isn’t available until the summer of 2014.
December 15, 2024
I'm in love with these comics...they're so good! moving forward to the last of the saga
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