Cigarette Smoking Man

Bringing writer Joe Harris back to the title, the art will be by R.D. Brown, and the book will be set after the 11th season of the series, i.e., the most recent series finale, of which there have been several.

While details are a little scarce, the book will pick up after the death of the Cigarette Smoking Man and the death of Mulder and Scully's child, William, as well as the surprise that Scully is pregnant again.

Plus, new alien conspiracies, new mysterious organization, and more.

Said Harris via press release, quote, "The X-Files only gets more relevant as the years go by and the government gets weirder and weirder.

And I had some suspicious recruitment earlier in my career, too.

I was on some really sensitive stuff that I ended up finding out it was, um, directly adjacent to the program, and I went through this whole, like, Smoking Man recruitment thing for a year.

And, you know, was told I was gonna get these b- kind of bizarre accesses.

And I'm like, "What are you talking about?" And ultimately I was never recruited, and I kind of just, like, put, filed that in the back of my brain for years.

And never with an outright lie about a family emergency.

And never to run off with CGB Spender, who cannot by any stretch of the imagination be considered an ally.

There's even a bonus.

I have no proof.

Or the Marlboro Man.

The Smoking Man.

Or

the Marlboro Man, the Smoking Man.

But I think they would fit the vibe of Dead by Daylight.

And I've not seen anybody mention Mulder and Scully.

The X-Files is coming back, is it?

Yeah, The X-Files is being rebooted, and we don't know a lot about it, but somebody started asking, hey, what's going to happen? Is Cigarette Smoking Man going to be there? And for people who weren't around in the 90s, when The X-Files was a total thing, I mean, we would gather around the television on Friday nights just to watch it.

It was sensational.

As a matter of fact, I think I ended up owning a whole bunch of VHS editions of The X-Files.

I liked it that much.

Cigarette smoking man was this guy who smoked a cigarette and he was sort of a mysterious insider in the security cartel or whatever the heck it would have been.

But he was always meeting up in shadowy alleyways and passing on bits of information.

the thing is he was played by William B Davis who's now 88 years old but he's still with us the oddball thing is I don't know if you've ever gone through like take a soap opera and you go through the storylines over the years and you realize that certain characters have died six times they've had amnesia seven times they've been married and divorced they got murdered they murdered somebody else and So Cigarette Smoking Man actually died three times in the first 11 seasons of The X-Files.