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Channel Zero Paperback – June 12, 2012

by Brian Wood (Author, Illustrator), Becky Cloonan (Illustrator)

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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. Hitting 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 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. This is the must-have edition. See where it all began!

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296 pages
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English
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Dark Horse
Publication date

June 12, 2012
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6.63 x 0.92 x 10.13 inches
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1595829369
ISBN-13

978-1595829368
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dark Horse (June 12, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 296 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1595829369
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1595829368
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.74 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.63 x 0.92 x 10.13 inches

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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. Brian’s comic book work has been published by DC Entertainment, Marvel Comics, Image Comics, Dark Horse, Boom! Studios, and others.

His original graphic novels are some of the most influential in comics. 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 DMZ defined comics’ response to the war on terror. The Massive took on climate change and next-gen environmentalism. Briggs Land, the crime saga set on a secessionist compound, tackled the scourge of the alt right. Starve is about food sustainability and class divide.

His historical fiction has similarly blazed a singular trail. Northlanders, his Viking anthology, set a benchmark in the comics industry. Rebels, his populist American Revolution anthology, is on the curriculum of schools across the country. 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.

His YA books Demo, Local, Mara, and The New York Four have made YASLA and New York Public Library best-of lists. He’s also written for some of the biggest franchises in pop culture, including Star Wars, Aliens, Terminator, RoboCop, and the X-Men.

He co-wrote the award-winning video game 1979 Revolution: Black Friday and contributed story material to Fox’s upcoming Alien shooter.

He’s written TV pilots for AMC, Team Downey and Sonar Entertainment, and WV Enterprises. His DMZ is currently in production at HBO Max with Ava DuVernay directing.

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Cai Yixin Jeremy

Channel Zero

Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2009

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Channel Zero. Just the sound of it implies a stark, near-futuristic theme, much like the themes in V for Vendetta. It also has an implication of media. This is certainly true as the premise of Brian's first ever graphic novel is about how media can be an extremely powerful tool for propaganda. Often times, the information given forth by media can and will affect how whole communities think. Also, it touches upon censorship and the subject of free speech in America.

Any of these things sound deep and complex? It is. It is deep and complex. It has so many political and social references to our current and future times that at the end of it all you will feel overwhelmed. The amount of information in this one is huge and you will find yourself having alot to digest along the way. Is this good or bad? To be honest, I have no idea. It touches on so many things that I'm not entirely sure what Brian was going for. Is it about censorship? Yes. Is it about consumerism? Yes. It is so many things and it feels pulled in too many directions, idea wise.

It all revolves around The Clean Act, which supposedly has killed freedom of expression and has caused America to become a sort of pseudo-communist country in which the government certainly knows best. So, no free speech and the things which were deemed 'unholy' by the higher powers are outlawed.

But as you know, the moment the government tries to stamp down on the people, the people start to fight back. In a sense, Jennie 2.5, a self styled media activist, was the one Brian has 'chosen' to represent them. The one who decided to do something, the radical.

The conflict establishes itself. The basic, age old idea of the people VS the government.

Take those ideas, make it as 'techy' and sophisticated as possible, that's what Channel Zero is. Brian has this very cool (sometimes too cool for its own good) style which lulls you into a semi-hypnotic techno geek journey down whatever spiral he spins out of his twisted mind. That's who Brian is, apparently.

If for nothing else other than being thrown head first into an array of political rants, read this book. I bet you will find yourself learning more about the society around you, even though, sometimes, the plot may leave you scratching your head.

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Machine

Make them listen

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2015

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the 1st story of Brian wood. 100% raw, pure passion project. dense, wordy. a bit more novel then graphic at times but beautiful none the less. a must have for Brian wood fans. comes with a lot of great extras, early sketches and candid commentary. very politically charged and much like 1984 is very dry at times with the oppressive political aspects that rule the world. the unglorious life of a rebel leader is on full display as well a great look at how media changes the meaning of not just our actions but also ourselves.

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Blackfox

Non-Fiction

Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2018

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1984 is coming folks.... educate yourselves...

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S. Davis

hard to read

Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2014

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bought this book for the kindle. it was very hard to read since the type is small on certain pages. on the kindle i was unable to stretch the page to read the text. i bought the book (again) from apple and was able to stretch the pages to read the small text.

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PJLore

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2016

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amazing artwork!

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J. Shaffer

Channel Zero my hero!

Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2008

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Awsome book, interesting concept and designed really. I would reccommend this book to anyone who loves Brian Wood and other dystopic literature!!

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Adam

Wow

Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2006

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I've never read a book as ambitious as this before. There was every chance for Brian Wood to totally fall on his face, and he flew instead. This, and its prequel, Jennie One, make a FANTASTIC story. Get this NOW, before it's gone.

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Nalis

I borrowed this from my local library. The art ...

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2018

I borrowed this from my local library. The art work looked impressive, and I was intrigued by the media manipulation aspect. If I would have read this when I was a rebellious teen, I would have proudly displayed this comic in my collection. We see now, more than ever, a resistance to shut down a view point that goes against mainstream media (news outlets and Hollywood). It did not foresee today's current events because it was staring in the opposite direction with hope that an angry mod could not be manipulated into striving against foundations that could heavily improve our society. To Brian's credit, he had the core of distorting news, just through the eyes of teenagers who focus on one aspect while missing the bigger picture.

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Lauren

So perfect I read it twice

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 19, 2012

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I recieved an ARC digital copy of Channel Zero from NetGalley, which I read on my computer, I had no trouble with this but did notice it caused the pages to be slightly pixelated meaning I couldn't appreciate the beauty of the art as much as I normally would when reading a graphic novel, but also the smaller text was harder to read, even with these negative parts which have nothing to do with the author or illustrator I feel I should mention them because even with these faults I have still rated it highly which illustrates just how much I enjoyed it, I have also actually got it on pre-order so I can drool over the art some more and let my boyfriend read it too as he is a sucker for Dark Horse books. Now time for my actual review part.
From the very first page this hits me as a very "V for Vendatta"-esque piece of work but also a very important because it is essentially that something could happen, or even is in the process of happening. It is set in America where they have recently passed the "Clean Act" which basically means the government has complete control over the media, nothing is show or told to the populations without the governments say so, and what is told is most likely manipulated to help the people feel safe whilst outside of America pretty much anything and everything could be happening and the American citizens wouldn't know a thing or recognise the outside world if they were to leave. I think on of the main reason I took to this book so well is because I love the storyline, but also because the main character Jennie 2.5 is so lovable and is very much an outcast as she appears to be the only person in the whole of America who can see how wrong their lives are and is fighting to regain to control for the public and I totally dig the underdogs. Not to mention she has the most rad tattoo's I've ever seen and style. What I also loved about this book was after the story had finished it included the development of the authors art and progress and development ideas that led him to this final outcome, which is something often included within graphic novels but the reason I loved it for this specific one is that you learn that Brian Wood actualyl created this for a school assignment! After Channel Zero has come to and end there is also a short story titled Jennie One which a different illustrator did the art for and I loved this section too, but again it included Becky's development stages in how she progressed from an manga based art style to something so much more. I loved this book throughout, every page has been deeply engraved in my mind and I can not wait to get my hands on my physically copy to read it again. Hey I may even pop back and let you know what my boyfriend thought too!
Recommend: If graphic novels are your thing, totally. I loved it.

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Mark Anthony Pritchard

Dated, but some of it is still relevant.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 12, 2013

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Overly stylised art, and bashing of easy targets (Christianity, right wing politics) aside, this still has a lot to say about the emerging Police state and mainstream media pandering to the banks and corporations that pay their bills. Rebellion is seen as young, cool and sexy. When you get older you stop rebelling and accept the world as it is? Not so, but I can forgive the book for that. It's drilled into our heads in every movie that you only rebel in your late teens/ early twenties, and the writer of this book is living in the same matrix as the rest of us. This book is definitely too cool for school, and the naive right wing bashing looks dated now, but I'd still check it out.

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