The X-Files Returns: How Dynamite Entertainment Is Reviving Agents Mulder and Scully for a Whole New Comic Book Era

The X-Files franchise is suddenly heating up again in 2026. Fresh off the release of The X-Files: I Want to Believe - Vrach Frankensteyn and LEGO's very first X-Files set comes the news that Dynamite Entertainment will publish a new X-Files comic starting this winter. What's more, the new series will feature a familiar face to X-Files readers. Dynamite's The X-Files series is written by Joe Harris, who previously penned The X-Files: Season 10 and Season 11 for IDW Publishing. Those books presented a different (and some fans might argue better) continuation of the classic TV series before Fox's revival seasons came along. The new book is illustrated by Riley Brown (Dead Acre: Black Badge). Unlike Harris' previous X-Files comics, this new series looks to be set during the events of the original show, presenting previously unseen cases for Agents Mulder and Scully. Dynamite teases that more plot details will be revealed in the months to come. “The X-Files has always been sacred to me," Harris said in a statement. "From my own early TV fandom on Friday and Sunday nights to getting to work on one of the greatest supernatural thriller/science fiction franchises in history, the further ad