X-Files Cover A 'Hosts'
(Part 1)

by Joe Harris
X-Files Cover RI

Reinstated to the X-Files department, Mulder and Scully are introduced by Deputy Director Walter Skinner to Assistant Director Ana Morales, who immediately assigns them to a case. While Mulder flies out to Martha’s Vineyard to investigate missing swimmers and a beach drowning victim with familiar wounds, Scully re-examines the remains of the vicious ‘flukeman’ creature they encountered in one of their early cases. To her surprise, Scully discovers that on removal from cold storage the mutant’s severed legs have begun to regenerate, and they almost restore themselves to a full creature before she destroys them with sulphuric acid. Meanwhile, Mulder forgoes the beach sights for an excursion into the sewers, where he soon finds the missing victims, all tied at the wrist. Finding one of the girls is still alive, Mulder prepares to take her to safety – only to come face to face with a hoard of regenerated flukemen…

Art by Eleana Casagrande with Silvia Califano
Coloured by Valentina Cuomo with Azzurra M. Florean
Lettered by Neil Uyetake and Gilberto Lazcano
Executive Producer Chris Carter


Notes:
*Featuring Special Agent Fox 'Spooky' Mulder, Special Agent Dana Scully and Deputy Director Walter Skinner, and introducing Assistant Director Ana Morales

*Published by Dark Horse Comics, November 2013

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