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wondawilson's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
4.0
watercolorstain's review against another edition
4.0
This adapts each of the first five episodes from season 1 into single issue stories: Pilot, Deep Throat, Squeeze, Conduit, and Ice.
The dialogue and in most cases even the panels are taken 1:1 from the script/episode stills. I can't fault the stories (the first five episodes of season 1 are all fantastic, Ice being one of my favorites of the whole series), but the art was really messy and unclear in parts, it felt kind of rushed? Maybe that's just what you get from non-mainstream comics from the 90s. Props on Scully's likeness to Gillian Anderson though, they did a great job with her, as they did with Mulder and Deep Throat. These are great and faithful adaptations, though it can be argued that such exact (graphic) novelizations of episodes are a bit redundant—they're a great way to revisit the early episodes though!
The dialogue and in most cases even the panels are taken 1:1 from the script/episode stills. I can't fault the stories (the first five episodes of season 1 are all fantastic, Ice being one of my favorites of the whole series), but the art was really messy and unclear in parts, it felt kind of rushed? Maybe that's just what you get from non-mainstream comics from the 90s. Props on Scully's likeness to Gillian Anderson though, they did a great job with her, as they did with Mulder and Deep Throat. These are great and faithful adaptations, though it can be argued that such exact (graphic) novelizations of episodes are a bit redundant—they're a great way to revisit the early episodes though!
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