Graphic Novel For Smoking Gun’s Mystery IP Goes Live

Smoking Gun Interactive has today launched the first instalment of a graphic novel related to its currently unannounced new game IP.

‘X’ tells the story of the secret history of mankind as a small, scattered group of people discover a conspiracy which not only threatens the future of humanity, it predates humanity too.

The graphic novel is written by influential, controversial and utterly fascinating author Douglas Rushkoff, well known in Cyberpunk and counterculture circles. ‘X’ is illustrated by Smoking Gun’s lead artist Cheoljoo Lee.

"It has been insanely challenging and insanely fun to dive head-first into Smoking Gun's universe," explained Rushkoff.

"And while I work on threading one narrative through this material, other artists are building it out on many other levels, all at once, for different people to engage with in so many different ways. So for the audience this multi-faceted, multi-media approach brings new dimension to the epic struggle that we're talking about here: nothing short of how humanity defines itself."

You can check out the first intriguing part of the story here and you might even spot an interactive element somewhere in the graphic novel which might even lead you into an alternate reality game. Or it might not. We really can’t say.

Smoking Gun Interactive was formed in 2007 by alumni of the excellent Company of Heroes series for the PC.