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‘X-Files’ flashback: IDW’s 2015 Annual and X-Mas Special (Comic book reviews)

While the 2014 Annual and X-Mas Special featured multiple standalone yarns in each issue, IDW takes a different tactic with the 2015 installments, part of

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‘X-Files’ flashback: IDW’s 2014 Annual and X-Mas Special (Comic book reviews)

Resurrecting a tradition from the old Topps comics, IDW’s “X-Files” Season 10 comics have also featured special issues alongside the regular series, starting with 2014’s Annual (April)

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‘X-Files’ flashback: IDW’s ‘Millennium’ miniseries (2015) (Comic book review)

While “The X-Files” was spun off into novels as far back as 1994 and into comics in 1995, its sister series, “Millennium” (1996-99), didn’t transition to another

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‘X-Files’ flashback: IDW’s ‘Year Zero’ miniseries (2014) (Comic book review)

The origin of the FBI’s X-Files was somewhat convoluted in the TV series, and it becomes more convoluted in the five-issue miniseries “X-Files: Year Zero” (2014) —

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‘X-Files’ meets ‘TMNT’ in IDW’s ‘Conspiracy’ miniseries (2014)

The “X-Files”/”30 Days of Night” miniseries from 2010-11 was a crossover that made sense: Both franchises logically occupied the same world. The “X-Files: Conspiracy” miniseries (2014) is

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Batman, Superman fight rather than talk in ‘BvS: Dawn of Justice’

“Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” the second entry in the DC Universe film saga that started with 2013’s “Man of Steel,” is more engaging than

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‘X-Files’ flashback: IDW’s Season 10 Issues 18-25 (2014-15) (Comic book reviews)

This final batch of IDW’s “X-Files” Season 10 comics continues the slight downward trend since the series’ beginning but provides a kinda, sorta satisfying wrap-up – and

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‘X-Files’ flashback: IDW’s Season 10 Issues 10-17 (2014) (Comic book reviews)

After a strong first nine issues, IDW’s “X-Files” Season 10 comics hit a dip in quality from Issues 10-17 (2014). On my first read, this was the

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‘The Walking Dead’ goes back to the beginning of civilization (TV commentary)

In my past posts about “The Walking Dead,” I’ve analyzed how some communities stand as metaphors for forms of government – Woodbury as a fascist state, Terminus

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‘X-Files’ flashback: IDW’s Season 10 Issues 1-9 (2013-14) (Comic book reviews)

IDW’s “X-Files” Season 10 comics mark the first time Chris Carter has a story credit on an “X-Files” comic – he co-wrote Issues 1-5, “Believers,” with

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