“The X-Files only gets more relevant as the years go by and the government gets weirder and weirder, the UFOs become mainstream, and the trust in institutions, from the government on down, gets harder and harder to spare,” said the writer, who wrote more than 60 issues of The X-Files during his tenure on the IDW title.

Joining him on the Dynamite Comics project is R.D. Brown who’s recent credits include covers for the first issues of Youngblood and Terminal for Image.

As is standard across pretty much most of the industry these days,Dynamite’s releases tend to come with a plethora of covers. It’s no different with the first issue of The X-Files, which comes with a photo cover as standard and half-a-dozen variants. Among the contributing artists are two with strong associations with the Topps title, which ran between 1995 and 1998. The Walking Dead‘s Charlie Adlard drew the first 16 issues of the Topps’ series while Miran Kim produced all but one of the the covers to #1-41. His Dynamite “icon” cover represents his mix-media art for Topps’ first issue.

Clayton Crain and Ivan Tao are the other artists producing covers for the inaugural issue, which picks up after the 2018 finale of Season 11 of the TV show.

The X-Files #1 ships on December 9, priced $4.99.