Channel Zero

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Summary: A graphic novel with adult sensibilities
Review: After reading this I walked away with the feeling that creator Brian Wood was more interested in creating a world for a reader to visit rather than telling a standard linear story. And that's just fine with me.

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Summary: My Main Objective Is To Be More Effective
Review: Brian Wood's CHANNEL ZERO is finally back in print with a nifty cover and some added bonus'. Don't miss this the second time around.

It's a darned beautiful book. Stunning black & whites make the work that much more powerful. It smells like those old zines that got you through the old days.

It's about standing up for yourself. It's about taking back your freedom. It gets you right There and makes you rethink your own world.

It's The Book Your Mom Doesn't Want You To Read. Say 'No' to Mom and 'Yes' to Brian Wood.

CHANNEL ZERO is *my* anti-drug.

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Summary: "Generica" the Beautiful
Review: Brian Wood's, "Channel Zero," is a terse, taut, techno thriller on what happens when a facist, authoritarian governmental system replaces Democracy in present day America. The writing is quite exceptional in presenting a mostly believeable scenario (but still somewhat hard to believe that media/info outlets are so completely shut-down and filtered that everyday Americans no longer know what's happening in the rest of the world) on how citizens both cope with the new constraints and eventually rise up to fight back. From start to finish the grim paranoia is effectively conveyed by Wood's masterful black and white illustration interspersed with faux propaganda artwork.

At this price, this book is of great value and not to be missed at all.

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Summary: "Generica" the Beautiful
Review: Brian Wood's, "Channel Zero," is a terse, taut, techno thriller on what happens when a facist, authoritarian governmental system replaces Democracy in present day America. The writing is quite exceptional in presenting a mostly believeable scenario (but still somewhat hard to believe that media/info outlets are so completely shut-down and filtered that everyday Americans no longer know what's happening in the rest of the world) on how citizens both cope with the new constraints and eventually rise up to fight back. From start to finish the grim paranoia is effectively conveyed by Wood's masterful black and white illustration interspersed with faux propaganda artwork.

At this price, this book is of great value and not to be missed at all.

Rating:
Summary: "Generica" the Beautiful
Review: Brian Wood's, "Channel Zero," is a terse, taut, techno thriller on what happens when a facist, authoritarian governmental system replaces Democracy in present day America. The writing is quite exceptional in presenting a mostly believeable scenario (but still somewhat hard to believe that media/info outlets are so completely shut-down and filtered that everyday Americans no longer know what's happening in the rest of the world) on how citizens both cope with the new constraints and eventually rise up to fight back. From start to finish the grim paranoia is effectively conveyed by Wood's masterful black and white illustration interspersed with faux propaganda artwork.

At this price, this book is of great value and not to be missed at all.

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Summary: revolutionary comics
Review: Channel Zero is a graphic novel for people interested in anti-establishment revolutions and propoganda.
Channel Zero is a graphic novel for people who want to see graphic design given just as much importance if not more than illustration in comics.
Channel Zero is a graphic novel for people who want something to believe in.
Channel Zero is a graphic novel for people.

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Summary: Cold lookin' for that hero, she watch channel zero
Review: Channel Zero is a great introduction to the skills of Brian Wood, a writer/artist who is set to become one of the top talents in the comics industry.

Wood's background in graphic design is easily spotted on these pages--the layouts are innovative and eyecatching--but Wood's a good storyteller as well. I never really thought the layouts distracted at all from the story.

Others here have noted his use of black and white in his art and I agree it's masterfully done. Only one current artist, I think, is better at using black and white to create mood and tension, but alas, Brian Michael Bendis is mainly a writer these days.

The story, also, is quite good--a look at a future America in which free speech is sacrificed so that a few Americans can feel secure in a world that makes them uncomfortable. Given we're now debating similar issues--how willing are you to sacrifice some liberties to feel secure--Channel Zero continues to be timely.

Channel Zero is, in part, a book about New York. Brian Wood knows New York and loves New York like few other writers I've experienced. The city is very much a part of Channel Zero and Brian's art and designs make it seem quite real.

Go on. Buy this book. You won't regret it.

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Summary: Channel Zero is now
Review: Channel Zero is not just about a future where the media manipulates people's beliefs. It exaggerates to deadly effect the way people use the media now.

With the stylistic edge of it's central character, inspired by posters and fliers, the art is a fine example of how graphic novels can add a dimension to the story-telling.

Our perceptions are distorted every day from entertainment programmes lying about how much quiz contestants know to news programmes presenting only half of the picture (or less).

It's a well told, clear science fiction story.
In the sense that Orwell's "1984" is science fiction.

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Summary: Pawn Your TV And Buy This...
Review: Channel Zero is one of those rare creatures, a graphic novel for people who
don't read graphic novels. It appeals to the eye and the mind on so many
levels, I've read it over a dozen times and found something new to enjoy and
think about with each session.
The welding of story to art is so seamless in CZ. The lead character, Jennie
literally screams at you from the page, and you feel as though you're
walking down the streets of future NYC, with one eye over your shoulder the
whole time.

This is a book not only for reading, but just for browsing, wallowing in the
brilliant, sublime design sense of creator Brian Wood.

Channel Zero is a book to scream to; to whisper to, to dance to.There's nothing else quite like it.

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Summary: Brian Wood's Been Watching
Review: CHANNEL ZERO is what happens when people pay attention.

When Brian Wood eyes the world around him he recognizes something is wrong, and rather than sit back on his arse and watch the rear-inclined, Orwellian propaganda machine gallop and trample the forgotten soul of America he calls us on it. He flips off the holier than thou Right Wingers, and gives a much needed elixir to those inflicted with the fastest growing disease in America: Complacence.

Brian Wood's Channel Zero combines a gripping speculative flair with a hard edged present-day social commentary that acts as a mirror for the rotting, backward contemporary culture. And rather than stop there, he dares us to move forward and embrace a different kind of America.

It isn't pretty, it isn't flashy, and it most certainly is not sugar coated, feel-good fare; there's too much of that already littering bookshelves everywhere - and CZ is the scolding for it! But if you're looking for a literate, smart, unapologetic graphic novel, look no further, because CHANNEL ZERO is a phenomenal work by the most important comics writer to come along in quite some time. Brian Wood is a pill for the conscience.