Joe Harris & Colin Lorimer “Millennium” (IDW, 2015)
The first thing that you need to know is that this is a
crossover between the X-Files & the Millennium spinoff. There’s a cursory attempt to remind you of
some plot points, but basically if you haven’t watched the shows, you’re going
to be lost right out of the gate.
Are you still with me? If you’re someone like me who watched
both shows (& the occasional rerun), then you’ll be good to go, even if you
haven’t seen any recently or read any of the comics.
The plot really isn’t that important here. It’s more about the various characters and
the tone. Harris does a great job of
replicating the dark paranoid tone of the Millennium series.
Colin Lorimer has an unenviable task – he has to reproduce
images of actors that we watched on our televisions for many many nights. Fortunately he does a fine job. All the characters are identifiable as the
characters that we know, while the action is clear and understandable at all
times.
I enjoyed Millennium, but would hesitate to recommend it to
anyone who wasn’t familiar with the TV shows.
