opfamateur.blogg.se - Channel Zero by Brian Wood

She’s an angry, rebellious young woman, as evidenced by her heavily tattooed body and penchant for hacking into various government-controlled computer systems. The media has been taken over by the government as well, due to Congress’s passage of the “Clean Act.” Wood writes that the law was spearheaded by the extreme right and that most of the population went along with the change, being “either in support of it, or too lazy to do anything about it.”Įnter Jennie 2.5, a young, self-described “uber-geek” whose dream to be an investigative journalist met an early death in the wake of the Clean Act. Although he actually created it as part of a final project for graduation from design school, it shows the same depth and polish as his comics today, proving that Wood is an artist whose intimate understanding of his craft extends all the way back to his beginnings.Ĭhannel Zero is set in an alternate near-future in which America is controlled by government corporations and freedom of expression has been all but completely suppressed. If you didn’t know better, though, you might be hard-pressed to pick out Wood’s first graphic novel as having come out so long before what he’s done recently it fits in that well, stylistically and thematically, with the rest of his body of work.

What Could Have Been: He wrote Aliens: Colonial Marines - Rising Threat, a short comic series that would have served as a prequel to an upcoming Aliens shooter game, but it was cancelled just weeks before it would have been released due to his dismissal from Dark Horse.Collects: Channel Zero #1-5 (Image, 1998)īefore Demo, DMZ, Northlanders, and a handful of other wonderful comics being written today by Brian Wood, there was Channel Zero.

Fantastic: Tends to slide towards realistic. Bittersweet Ending: More often than not.Big Applesauce: A large number of his work is set in New York.

Tropes associated with Brian Wood's work: In 2019, Wood was dismissed from Dark Horse following accusations of sexual misconduct. He also did the Queen of the Black Coast Conan storyline for Dark Horse. In 2012, Wood returned to writing for Marvel, starting a run on Ultimate X-Men, as well as relaunching X-Men. Wood returned to writing creator-owned series, including Demo, Local, The Couriers, DMZ and Northlanders.

He got his start in comics with Channel Zero before later working on Generation X with Warren Ellis as part of the Ellis' Counter-X run. He is known primarily for his Vertigo Comics series DMZ and his runs on various X-Men titles. Brian Wood (born 1972) is an American writer, illustrator and graphic designer, most well known for his work as a comic book creator.