Chris Carter tightly controlled X-Files licensing to avoid cheap merchandise, limiting tie-in novels.
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A live-show detour into X-Files comics that works best when it argues about what the page can do.
The hour settles into a comics-and-canon conversation, using Topps X-Files material to test what tie-in work can actually do. It is at its best when it weighs the comics' ambition and reach against the limits of the show, then broadens that into a sharper point about myth-arc…
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