Also featuring the now-classic Warren Ellis introduction and an all-new cover by Wood, this is the must-have edition. The Channel Zero collection contains the original series, the prequel graphic novel Jennie One (illustrated by Becky Cloonan), the best of the two Public Domain design books, and almost fifteen years of extras, rarities, short stories, and unused art. Touching on themes of freedom of expression, hacking, cutting-edge media manipulation, and police surveillance, it remains as relevant today as it did back then. The solicitation text for this book reads as follows:Ī blistering take on media control in a repressive future America! DMZ and The Massive creator Brian Wood launched an all-out assault on the comics medium in 1997 with Channel Zero, an influential, forward-thinking series that combined art, politics, and graphic design in a unique way. Both books deal with similar themes, and both are created by people who have risen to be among the most respected names in comics, although neither of them draw much anymore. If I had to pick a comic to compare Channel Zero, and it’s follow-up book with Becky Cloonan, Jennie One, also collected in this new Dark Horse edition, I would have to suggest Jonathan Hickman’s debut, The Nightly News. When I read it, I was immediately impressed with Wood’s sense of design, and the strength of his vision. I will admit that I wasn’t up-and-coming enough to catch on to Wood’s work from the beginning, and instead tracked down this and Demo almost immediately after reading the first issue of DMZ, his long-running series at Vertigo. It’s been a number of years since I read Channel Zero, Brian Wood’s first published independent comic, and my memory of it is hazy.

The Books I Think You Should Buy:īy Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan Dark Horse, $19.99 Welcome to my weekly look at what new graphic novels and trade paperbacks are showing up on the stands.

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