His DMZ is currently in production at HBO Max with Ava DuVernay directing. He’s written TV pilots for AMC, Team Downey and Sonar Entertainment, and WV Enterprises. He co-wrote the award-winning video game 1979 Revolution: Black Friday and contributed story material to Fox’s upcoming Alien shooter. GCD :: Issue :: Channel Zero Channel Zero AiT/Planet Lar, 2000 Series Published in English (United States) Price Pages Indicia / Colophon Publisher Brand ISBN Barcode Color black and white Dimensions Standard Modern Age U.S. He’s also written for some of the biggest franchises in pop culture, including Star Wars, Aliens, Terminator, RoboCop, and the X-Men. His YA books Demo, Local, Mara, and The New York Four have made YASLA and New York Public Library best-of lists. Sword Daughter is a pulpy Samurai/Norse mashup, and Magnus Black, the brutal fixer in Black Road, is a Jack Reacher for the dark ages.

Rebels, his populist American Revolution anthology, is on the curriculum of schools across the country. Northlanders, his Viking anthology, set a benchmark in the comics industry. His historical fiction has similarly blazed a singular trail. Starve is about food sustainability and class divide. Artist Becky Cloonan puts the perfect images to Brian Woods story: a perfect complement to the original Channel Zero but with a style all its own. Briggs Land, the crime saga set on a secessionist compound, tackled the scourge of the alt right. The Massive took on climate change and next-gen environmentalism. His DMZ defined comics’ response to the war on terror. Starting with Channel Zero, his street activist call-to-arms, Brian has unapologetically made politics and socially conscious thrillers the center of his career. His original graphic novels are some of the most influential in comics.

Brian’s comic book work has been published by DC Entertainment, Marvel Comics, Image Comics, Dark Horse, Boom! Studios, and others. After graduating from the prestigious Parsons School of Design, Brian Wood spent several years in video game design with Rockstar Games, most notably for the Grand Theft Auto franchise before moving full time into writing.

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