In 2009 writer/illustrator Dean Motter revisited his seminal comic book character Mister X with the short story Yacht on the Styx. This was the prelude to a reboot of the Mister X series from Dark Horse Comics. In 2015 Rolling Stone magazine listed Mister X as number 32 of the Top 50 Non-Super Hero Graphic Novels The series was collected into the anthology Mister X: The Modern Age. This edition collects some of Motter's favorite post-millennial Mister X short stories, Pokerface, Xmas in Somnopolis, The Vanishing Breed and Mister X in Slumberland as well as featuring the first chapter of the fourth miniseries, Excavations.