'G-23' (Part 1) by Joe Harris

Nevada, 1966: The Cigarette Smoking Man is called to a top-secret military installation to deal with a couple of trespassing students, whose search for UFOs has led them to become accidentally exposed to a powerful hallucinogenic compound in a tainted packets of cigarettes.

Washington D.C., the present: Mulder’s lunch is interrupted by the Cigarette Smoking Man, who brings a tip-off about a devious conspiracy in the Nevada Desert that involves G-23. Taking the information to the Lone Gunmen in their secret base under Arlington National Cemetery, Mulder learns that G-23 - or ‘Government Weed’ - is a potent narcotic created by the government to undermine the growing countercultural movement in the 1960s; the question is, has the project been reopened? Heading out on State Route 375 that night, Mulder encounters a group of hippies; however, when he questions them about possession of G-23 he too becomes exposed to the drug – just as a fleet of black helicopters arrives on the scene and opens fire on everyone below…

Art by Tom Mandrake
Colours by Sian Mandrake
Letters by Robbie Robbins
Executive Producer Chris Carter

Notes:
*Featuring Special Agent Fox 'Spooky' Mulder, Special Agent Dana Scully and the Lone Gunmen

*Published by Dark Horse Comics, December 2014