Plot very similar to an XF Topp comics released in 1997

The 3 part-issues written by John ROZUM (#27, 28 and 29, including in the vol 3 of X FILES classic reprinted in 2014 by IDW)REMOTE CONTROL bears strong similarities in term of story and dialog with IWTB.

The official synopsis: Remote Viewers- psychics able to see distant objects from just a given set of coordinates. But when they start dying in mysterious circumstances, FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully start wondering why they didn't see that coming

Similarities to IWTB :
1) Mulder and Scully interviewed one of this psychic (Mr Kite) in order to find a missing person, also a psychic. Scully doesn't believe in him and doesn't bother to tell him.
2) This psychic bears a strong ressemblance to Father Joe : long white hair, around the same age, and share his kindness toward Scully despite her being rude.
3) When Mulder is captured later in the story, she turns herself toward mr Kite. She accused Mr kite of being a fraud but nevertheless accept his help. The dialog, the tension, even the room and the positions of the "actors" are very similar, as if this story served as a storyboard for IWTB.

4) At the end of the story (and that was published in 1997!) there is a huge shipper scene, unusual for the time : when Scully succeed in finding Mulder, thanks to the informations given by the psychic, she hugs him tenderly (!!), mirroring the end of IWTB years before.


This is not the first time I noted strong similarities with plots from Topp comics (especially those written by Petrucha) that were used later in the tv show AND in MILLENNIUM. To make you an idea, I highly recommand you these collections of comics, especially the first two volumes.
Writing this I just went to discover something else. Let's take a look at the cover of the #31 issue, published in june 1997, months before the opening credit of MILLENNIUM S2.
http://www.comicvine.com/x-files-27-remote-control-part-one/4000-51775/