Recently, Amazon's Audible announced that they would be producing an audio drama called The X-Files: Cold Cases, based on The X-Files, and specifically on Joe Harris's The X-Files: Season 10.
The irony there is that Season 10, when it was first released from IDW Publishing, was a big deal as the first comic book series to be officially canon in the world of The X-Files.
A couple of years later, though, FOX decided to make an actual tenth
season on television -- and much of what happened there conflicted with
the story in The X-Files: Season 10. The series, then on Season 11, was retitled simply The X-Files and stopped being official canon (although it was still overseen and signed-off on by creator Chris Carter's staff).
As Harris wraps up his run (prior to his departure from the comics) on The X-Files with the current storyline, titled "Resistance," ComicBook.com spoke with the writer
about the series, including what he thought about the Audible drama,
which is due out in July.
“I’m awfully happy that the Audible news broke when it did, too,”
Harris admitted. “I didn’t think that was going to come out until July,
so I’m kind of happy that the breaks before the news of the end of the
[comic book] series and my last issue.”
As far as the decision to adapt his work, Harris is glad -- even if it's got the potential to create some confusion for readers.
“It’s gratifying; it also opens up a can of worms for people who wonder ‘How exactly will this tie into the television series?’” Harris said. “There
are incompatible turns of character and plot, and the simple answer is,
it really doesn’t. They really just straight adapted my comics in ways
that, if you’re looking for it to perfectly line up as canon, you’re
going to be disappointed I would say, but it needs to be thought of that
way.”
"Resistance", Part: 1; actual edition #14 from "The X-Files" comics. Photo: IDW Publishing
Source: Comicbook.com