Marvel Confirms The Creation of Its Own 'X-Files' Monster Hunters
Warning: spoilers for Ghost Rider #1 are ahead!
The FBI have long existed in Marvel Comics, but their most notorious fictional unit from The X-Files television show has finally made the leap onto the pages of their comic books. With the debut of a new character, agent Talia Warroad, in Ghost Rider #1, Marvel Comics' FBI has taken a more supernatural bent that is fit for a series about the Spirit of Vengeance. From a creative team of Benjamin Percy, Cory Smith, Brian Valenza, and Travis Lanham, Ghost Rider #1 produces a new team within the FBI that is fit for continuing the legacy of the X-Files television show.
In the now classic TV show created by Chris Carter, FBI Special Agent Dana Scully is assigned to the X-Files unit in the basement of Bureau's Washington D.C. headquarters, where she teams up with the paranormal expert, Special Agent Fox Mulder. Together, Mulder and Scully investigate reported paranormal and supernatural events around the country, putting their heads together as a believer and as a skeptic, respectively. This particular supernatural take on the procedural genre has been hugely popular and influential since the show debuted in 1993.
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While Marvel's new team isn't investigating X-Files per se, they do share a number of similarities to Mulder and Scully's team that make it impossible to overlook. Like Agent Scully, Marvel's Agent Whilmer is a «black-and-white, by-the-numbers kind of guy» transferred into the FBI's «paranormal unit.» His focus is much more on determining observable truth that can be explained scientifically. This is in contrast to Agent Talia Warroad, whose unapologetic belief in the supernatural makes her a
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