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The X-Files Classics #4
X-Files Classics Volume 4 (The X-Files
Rejoin Mulder and Scully as they unravel all-new mysteries only seen in comic books.
280 pages, Hardcover
First published July 22, 2014
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John Rozum
253 books7 followersJ. Rozum is an American writer of comic books and graphic novels who is best known for his work for Milestone Comics, where he wrote Xombi and Kobalt. He has also worked for Topps Comics (where he wrote a comicbook adaptation of The X-Files) and Marvel Comics. In 2009, NBC announced that they were beginning an adaptation of Rozum's Vertigo Comics series: Midnight, Mass.
He also wrote Static Shock, Superman and others.
He also wrote Static Shock, Superman and others.
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December 29, 2020
This was by far the weakest collection, and I can tell why the series was cancelled—none of these really stood out at all or felt very thought out/coherent—in fact, some of these were rather ridiculous.
#30-#31: Surrounded (2 Parts) · ★★½
The FBI surrounds an anti-government militia compound. One of the militia has been skinned and they ask for Mulder and Scully to investigate. An angry geneticist is a member of the militia. Mutant dust mites hungry for human skin cells force the militia from their compound. Mulder and Scully barely escape with their hides intact, but the geneticist escapes with a container of mites.
#32: Crop Duster · ★★★
Fred Glausiusz is arrested for shooting at a police officer. He claims he was trying to kill some of the little green men plaguing him. Scully thinks it's a hallucination. Mulder learns that Fred worked on a classified chemical warfare project called "Crop Duster" and that others have seen the little green men.
#33: Soma · ★★★
Several elderly Indian widows in San Francisco have died violently, apparently by spontaneous combustion. Another woman asks Mulder and Scully for help. She chose not to be cremated when her husband died and now he has come for her.
#34: Skybuster · ★★½
Ravens are killing members of a research facility in Alaska and the locals are ecstatic. Scully and Mulder investigate Project HAARP and the killings.
#35-#36: N.D.E. (2 Parts) · ★★★
A mobster scheduled to testify for the government suffers a Near Death Experience. He claims that it has turned him into a gateway for demons from his personal hell. Mulder and Scully investigate when fellow agents begin to die. Mob informant Lawrence Schiff is convinced that he must remain in total darkness to stay alive, but he's scheduled to testify. Mulder and Scully must determine if mob hitmen or demons are trying to kill Schiff.
#37: The Face of Extinction · ★★★½
Mulder and Scully investigate the murder of a North Carolina businessman by a goatman, a genetically altered goat or perhaps a cloven-hooved satyr.
#38: Cam Ranh Bay · ★★★
Mulder and Scully investigate a dolphin's cry for justice.
#39: Scum of the Earth · ★½
Mulder and Scully investigate a skeleton found in a shower stall.
#40: Devil's Advocate · ★★½
Mulder and Scully investigate the death of a fisherman.
#41: Severed · ★★
Mulder and Scully investigate a serial killer who may be a werewolf.
#30-#31: Surrounded (2 Parts) · ★★½
The FBI surrounds an anti-government militia compound. One of the militia has been skinned and they ask for Mulder and Scully to investigate. An angry geneticist is a member of the militia. Mutant dust mites hungry for human skin cells force the militia from their compound. Mulder and Scully barely escape with their hides intact, but the geneticist escapes with a container of mites.
#32: Crop Duster · ★★★
Fred Glausiusz is arrested for shooting at a police officer. He claims he was trying to kill some of the little green men plaguing him. Scully thinks it's a hallucination. Mulder learns that Fred worked on a classified chemical warfare project called "Crop Duster" and that others have seen the little green men.
#33: Soma · ★★★
Several elderly Indian widows in San Francisco have died violently, apparently by spontaneous combustion. Another woman asks Mulder and Scully for help. She chose not to be cremated when her husband died and now he has come for her.
#34: Skybuster · ★★½
Ravens are killing members of a research facility in Alaska and the locals are ecstatic. Scully and Mulder investigate Project HAARP and the killings.
#35-#36: N.D.E. (2 Parts) · ★★★
A mobster scheduled to testify for the government suffers a Near Death Experience. He claims that it has turned him into a gateway for demons from his personal hell. Mulder and Scully investigate when fellow agents begin to die. Mob informant Lawrence Schiff is convinced that he must remain in total darkness to stay alive, but he's scheduled to testify. Mulder and Scully must determine if mob hitmen or demons are trying to kill Schiff.
#37: The Face of Extinction · ★★★½
Mulder and Scully investigate the murder of a North Carolina businessman by a goatman, a genetically altered goat or perhaps a cloven-hooved satyr.
#38: Cam Ranh Bay · ★★★
Mulder and Scully investigate a dolphin's cry for justice.
#39: Scum of the Earth · ★½
Mulder and Scully investigate a skeleton found in a shower stall.
#40: Devil's Advocate · ★★½
Mulder and Scully investigate the death of a fisherman.
#41: Severed · ★★
Mulder and Scully investigate a serial killer who may be a werewolf.
April 14, 2024
(Zero spoiler review) 2.75/5
I've finally added the final (and hardest to find) volume to the collection. The previous three volumes had been various shades of disappointing to downright terrible, so it was a pleasant surprise that volume four was likely the strongest of the bunch. Hell, there were times when I really and truly believed that I was reading the interactions and investigations of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. Of course, when I wasn't so immensely immersed, I was shaking my head or burying it in the pillows at the sheer unbridled cringe of it all. As for every good issue we got here, we got at least one outright turkey. Not to mention the handful of decent ones that were undone by an unfathomably absurd narrative choice on the final page. I appreciate the difficulty in telling what would have been a 40+minute episode in a 22 page comic, although I wasn't paid to write em, I'm just hear to review em. Thanks to Alex Saviuk and Rick Magyar, this is easily the best looking book of the four. Some of the previous books featured art that gave the writing a run for it's money in the diabolical department. Hell, I'm surprised Mulder and Scully weren't tasked to investigate the altogether absent quality of said stories. Hence why reading comics continuing a beloved tv series is usually a recipe for disappointment. When the writing (used to be) so good on the show, a comic book with a miniscule budget and generally much less talented creators is never likely to meet your expectations.
I can't ever see myself reading any of these ever again as I'd much rather watch the first handful of seasons of the show, but I'll hold on to them nonetheless. It would take a tragically die hard fan or a very non discerning reader to get much out of this. 2.75/5
OmniBen.
I've finally added the final (and hardest to find) volume to the collection. The previous three volumes had been various shades of disappointing to downright terrible, so it was a pleasant surprise that volume four was likely the strongest of the bunch. Hell, there were times when I really and truly believed that I was reading the interactions and investigations of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. Of course, when I wasn't so immensely immersed, I was shaking my head or burying it in the pillows at the sheer unbridled cringe of it all. As for every good issue we got here, we got at least one outright turkey. Not to mention the handful of decent ones that were undone by an unfathomably absurd narrative choice on the final page. I appreciate the difficulty in telling what would have been a 40+minute episode in a 22 page comic, although I wasn't paid to write em, I'm just hear to review em. Thanks to Alex Saviuk and Rick Magyar, this is easily the best looking book of the four. Some of the previous books featured art that gave the writing a run for it's money in the diabolical department. Hell, I'm surprised Mulder and Scully weren't tasked to investigate the altogether absent quality of said stories. Hence why reading comics continuing a beloved tv series is usually a recipe for disappointment. When the writing (used to be) so good on the show, a comic book with a miniscule budget and generally much less talented creators is never likely to meet your expectations.
I can't ever see myself reading any of these ever again as I'd much rather watch the first handful of seasons of the show, but I'll hold on to them nonetheless. It would take a tragically die hard fan or a very non discerning reader to get much out of this. 2.75/5
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, not yet 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…
A serial killer is stripping the flesh from his victims at a militant compound in Oregon…
A man believes himself haunted by little green “frogmen” only he can see…
A woman from India finds herself haunted by her husband after refusing to burn herself on his funeral pyre…
Flocks of Ravens are killing people in Alaska…
A man discovers himself haunted by glowing phantoms that disintegrate human beings. He believes he just had a near death experience...
Mulder and Scully investigate sightings of a goatman in Maryland…
Dolphins once weaponized by the Government start killing people…
Flesh-eating algae are discovered in Florida…
A ghost ship sails Devil’s Bay in North Dakota…
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…
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, not yet 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…
A serial killer is stripping the flesh from his victims at a militant compound in Oregon…
A man believes himself haunted by little green “frogmen” only he can see…
A woman from India finds herself haunted by her husband after refusing to burn herself on his funeral pyre…
Flocks of Ravens are killing people in Alaska…
A man discovers himself haunted by glowing phantoms that disintegrate human beings. He believes he just had a near death experience...
Mulder and Scully investigate sightings of a goatman in Maryland…
Dolphins once weaponized by the Government start killing people…
Flesh-eating algae are discovered in Florida…
A ghost ship sails Devil’s Bay in North Dakota…
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…
June 3, 2017
Art style was really good but the individual stories felt rushed. Ended up skim reading the last 2 just to finish the book :/
March 21, 2018
Personal Response:
This book is so good. So much happened. It was so good to read what happened after the cliff hanger of the last book. The setting of this book and the end setting of the last book is super different which makes me kind of sad, because Scully and Mulder were so cute. This series is my favorite.
Plot Summary:
This book starts off ten plus years after the end of the last book. Scully has moved on from Mulder. They are no longer together as a couple. They still love each other, but they aren't dating. Scully starts to get visions that she believes William is sending to her telepathically. She tries to find him, and once she does he is in great danger. They go through many obstacles as a family that they need to concur as a family.
Characterization:
Scully grows because she isn't stuck to her scientific explanations for everything. She finally leaned how to except that you cant explain everything. She finally believes in the extra terrestrial life, which Mulder has been trying to get her to believe in since they started working together.
Mulder grows because he finally sees his child for the first time. He realizes what it means to be a dad. He steps up and even though William doesn't know it yet Mulder is fully prepared to take a life for his kid.
Recommendations:
I recommend this book to anyone and everyone who likes action, crime, fantasy and thrill. This book is suspenseful. There is a lot of superpowers and extra terrestrial which makes it fantasy, so if you like fantasy, then you need to read this book. Specifically people who like Alien based crime books, this book is what you need to read.
This book is so good. So much happened. It was so good to read what happened after the cliff hanger of the last book. The setting of this book and the end setting of the last book is super different which makes me kind of sad, because Scully and Mulder were so cute. This series is my favorite.
Plot Summary:
This book starts off ten plus years after the end of the last book. Scully has moved on from Mulder. They are no longer together as a couple. They still love each other, but they aren't dating. Scully starts to get visions that she believes William is sending to her telepathically. She tries to find him, and once she does he is in great danger. They go through many obstacles as a family that they need to concur as a family.
Characterization:
Scully grows because she isn't stuck to her scientific explanations for everything. She finally leaned how to except that you cant explain everything. She finally believes in the extra terrestrial life, which Mulder has been trying to get her to believe in since they started working together.
Mulder grows because he finally sees his child for the first time. He realizes what it means to be a dad. He steps up and even though William doesn't know it yet Mulder is fully prepared to take a life for his kid.
Recommendations:
I recommend this book to anyone and everyone who likes action, crime, fantasy and thrill. This book is suspenseful. There is a lot of superpowers and extra terrestrial which makes it fantasy, so if you like fantasy, then you need to read this book. Specifically people who like Alien based crime books, this book is what you need to read.
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June 16, 2015
A great mix of stories which really capture the essence of the show, and entertain in equal measure.
You know they've done it right when it feels like some of these could be actual episodes.
You know they've done it right when it feels like some of these could be actual episodes.
December 15, 2024
Wonderful! as all the saga! loved them all
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