X-Files/Thirty Days of Night Comic Book Crossover
As a fan of everything sci-fi and horror, my reaction to the upcoming Thirty Days of Night/X-Files crossover was quite predictable. Jumping, yelling for joy, finding my wallet, counting my cash, and finding out when this bad boy is released. But being a sci-fi horror fan I know that comic book crossovers of this caliber can be quite strange and often nonsensical, take for example Batman/Aliens.
A snowplow driver finds a vast cemetery of vehicles and their drivers, all of which have been ferociously decapitated and hung 40 feet in the air on a pole while their heads lay in a pile nearby. Our two favorite agents find themselves called up to Wainright, Alaska right as the seasonal darkness sets in. Mulder and Scully find little real evidence at the crime scene which leaves them searching for clues elsewhere. Along the way they run into a fellow FBI agent, Robert French who rudely denounces Mulder as a joke to the Bureau. French is determined to demonstrate how useless Mulder is by catching the serial killer first.
Mulder and Scully are the main focus of the first issue leaving the vampires to the second installment. The art is done by Tom Mandrake, whose work includes the recent issues of The Specter, and several Batman titles. Creator of the Thirty Days of Night series, Steve Niles, teams up with former metal guitarist from Tool, Adam Jones, to write this six part mini-series.
The writers apparently have stayed true to Mulder and Scully characters and the way they banter about natural vs. supernatural. The art is supposed to be very well done, all I know is that I am going to be snagging this gem once it comes out in graphic novel form. The series hits stores July 14.








Comments
What an awesome concept -
What an awesome concept - thanks for the heads up on this series!
So getting this
Love 30 (even the movie), though some of the books lack in imagination the original is awesome
he hehe he goosebumps
he hehe he goosebumps
Wow...don't quite know what
Wow...don't quite know what to think about this.......
Sounds neat enough I suppose....I'll check it out because I always support Steve Niles...the idea just isn't screaming awesome to me..*shrug*
oh man, it screams B movie
oh man, it screams B movie cheesy... it's gotta be golden..