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graemeh's review against another edition
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
mbcrawshaw's review against another edition
3.0
This is the first comic book/graphic novel I ever read. As the X-Files portion of it, I loved most of the stories. As a graphic novel, I got bored quite a bit, or I couldn't follow what I was supposed to read next. Overall I liked it but not sure I'll read another one unless it's the X-Files or possibly trying The Walking Dead when the show is officially over.
watercolorstain's review against another edition
4.0
Arithmetically it would average to 3 stars, same as Volume 1. This is however due to some weak issues thrown in, but overall, this one was worlds better and I'm rounding up to four—it had some really excellent ones.
#10-#12: Feelings of Unreality: Wheels Within Wheels / The Ancient of Days / The Nightmare of History (3 Parts) · ★★★★
While Mulder listens to tapes of Enoch to learn the secrets of his last meal, General Shadenfreud, Scully remembers a connection to Colleen Dunne. Mulder is led to the Ilbal by an informant and Scully tracks down Dunne. Men-in-black also find Dunne. An intruder breaks into an FBI lab looking for the Ilbal. Colleen Dunne, Scully's chief witness in the Neola incident, undergoes medical tests. Scully tells Mulder that she now believes that they have come across some kind of conspiracy. While Scully experiences electro-magnetically induced sensations of aliens, Mulder falls prey to Dunne, who has him wear the Ilbal and experience sensations he has never felt before. Scully and Mulder present proof of the existence of UFOs and uncover the "inner government" conspiracy to a Senate committee, but reality is not what it appears to be. The FBI agents' investigation brings them full circle to Our Lady of Fatima Church in Brooklyn and a remarkable story from Colleen Dunne.
#½: Tiptoe Through the Tulpa · ★★★★
Mulder believes that a series of murders are the work of a tulpa, a conjured being, created by a man who's been in a coma for five years. Scully unearths a more pragmatic explanation in the form of the suspect's vengeful mother.)
#13: One Player Only · ★★★★
A computer game programmer murders the other members of his project team and can only mutter strange sounds after he is jailed. With help from the Lone Gunmen, Mulder and Scully identify the sounds as binary code and the only witness to the murders tells its tale. Notes: This issue contains Adlard's inked artwork and Kim's photo montage artwork providing different points of view.
#14: Falling · ★★
Mulder is captured by children who found a UFO and want to examine an alien, while Scully investigates an alien sighting. Scully's alien turns out to be a man dying of radiation poisoning whose cabin is near the crash site. Scully hunts for Mulder and children begin dying.
#15-#16: Home of the Brave: The New World / A Question of Ownership (2 Parts) · ★★
In the Georgia swamps, a survivalist and his mail-order bride (who narrates the story) witness a dogfight between jet fighters and a UFO. Investigating reports of a crashed UFO, Mulder and Scully are taken prisoner by a survivalist group, whose leader believes that Federal agents are responsible for current events. As shadow-men converge on the compound, the agents must decide which of them gets to die. Scully and Mulder escape from Gavin, leader of the survivalist group. Sentenced to death, they are trapped between the survivalists and the shadow-men.
#17: Thin Air · ★★★★★
U.S. Navy pilot John Lawrence reappears fifty years after his squadron, Flight 19, disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. Mulder talks Scully into helping him investigate Lawrence. They learn that someone has gone to great lengths to pull off a hoax, but Mulder thinks that the real John Lawrence may make an appearance.
#18-#19: Night Lights (2 Parts) · ★★
In North Carolina, scientists at a ball lightning research facility disappear. Miles away, a brief rainshower of blood occurs and a reddish-orange ball of light is sighted. Mulder and Scully investigate and witness a phenomenon that moves as if it were alive. The Lone Gunmen give Mulder some background on atmospheric creatures. Mulder asks the director of the research station to set up another test in hopes of attracting the attention of something. The local police chief tags along with an agenda of his own.
#10-#12: Feelings of Unreality: Wheels Within Wheels / The Ancient of Days / The Nightmare of History (3 Parts) · ★★★★
While Mulder listens to tapes of Enoch to learn the secrets of his last meal, General Shadenfreud, Scully remembers a connection to Colleen Dunne. Mulder is led to the Ilbal by an informant and Scully tracks down Dunne. Men-in-black also find Dunne. An intruder breaks into an FBI lab looking for the Ilbal. Colleen Dunne, Scully's chief witness in the Neola incident, undergoes medical tests. Scully tells Mulder that she now believes that they have come across some kind of conspiracy. While Scully experiences electro-magnetically induced sensations of aliens, Mulder falls prey to Dunne, who has him wear the Ilbal and experience sensations he has never felt before. Scully and Mulder present proof of the existence of UFOs and uncover the "inner government" conspiracy to a Senate committee, but reality is not what it appears to be. The FBI agents' investigation brings them full circle to Our Lady of Fatima Church in Brooklyn and a remarkable story from Colleen Dunne.
#½: Tiptoe Through the Tulpa · ★★★★
Mulder believes that a series of murders are the work of a tulpa, a conjured being, created by a man who's been in a coma for five years. Scully unearths a more pragmatic explanation in the form of the suspect's vengeful mother.)
#13: One Player Only · ★★★★
A computer game programmer murders the other members of his project team and can only mutter strange sounds after he is jailed. With help from the Lone Gunmen, Mulder and Scully identify the sounds as binary code and the only witness to the murders tells its tale. Notes: This issue contains Adlard's inked artwork and Kim's photo montage artwork providing different points of view.
#14: Falling · ★★
Mulder is captured by children who found a UFO and want to examine an alien, while Scully investigates an alien sighting. Scully's alien turns out to be a man dying of radiation poisoning whose cabin is near the crash site. Scully hunts for Mulder and children begin dying.
#15-#16: Home of the Brave: The New World / A Question of Ownership (2 Parts) · ★★
In the Georgia swamps, a survivalist and his mail-order bride (who narrates the story) witness a dogfight between jet fighters and a UFO. Investigating reports of a crashed UFO, Mulder and Scully are taken prisoner by a survivalist group, whose leader believes that Federal agents are responsible for current events. As shadow-men converge on the compound, the agents must decide which of them gets to die. Scully and Mulder escape from Gavin, leader of the survivalist group. Sentenced to death, they are trapped between the survivalists and the shadow-men.
#17: Thin Air · ★★★★★
U.S. Navy pilot John Lawrence reappears fifty years after his squadron, Flight 19, disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. Mulder talks Scully into helping him investigate Lawrence. They learn that someone has gone to great lengths to pull off a hoax, but Mulder thinks that the real John Lawrence may make an appearance.
#18-#19: Night Lights (2 Parts) · ★★
In North Carolina, scientists at a ball lightning research facility disappear. Miles away, a brief rainshower of blood occurs and a reddish-orange ball of light is sighted. Mulder and Scully investigate and witness a phenomenon that moves as if it were alive. The Lone Gunmen give Mulder some background on atmospheric creatures. Mulder asks the director of the research station to set up another test in hopes of attracting the attention of something. The local police chief tags along with an agenda of his own.
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