By: Brian Wood Publisher: AiT/PlanetLar Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: AiT/PlanetLar Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 144 Publication Date: September 01, 2000
Product Description: Special interest groups have bullied the government into passing the Clean Act, effectively killing freedom of speech and silencing the country into submission. TV and God become one and the same as America wages its own holy war against its citizens. Meet Jennie 2.5, media slut turned info-terrorist, out to save the country from itself, and restore free will and self expression. Hailed internationally as ground-breaking work in the field of sequential art, Channel Zero challenges and tests the limits, combining current events and no-future shock into a dark, paranoid, deep-ambient visual narrative.
Channel Zero my hero! Awsome book, interesting concept and designed really. I would reccommend this book to anyone who loves Brian Wood and other dystopic literature!!
Great At Date of Publication, Prophetic in Retrospective Channel Zero is the tale of a New York art student living in the midst of change for the worse in America. New laws and fears have brought about change in society and leave our bill of rights in bloody tatters on the ground. While many sit down and revel in their safety, protagonist Jennie 2.5 decides to do something about it. Through truly groundbreaking design/comic art, author/artist Brian Wood dumps us off with Jennie as she puts her propaganda plan to wake up the masses into full throttle, only to find out that she's probably in over her head and not necessarily as free of America's faults as she thinks she is.
In addition to Jennie, cameos of other people from other angles are shown throughout the book. Whether in one page bios introducing characters that would be used in future B. Wood comics, or in mini stories, such as that of the activist-assassinating "cleaner" that is only doing her job, Brian weaves a whole world for us to look into that, while primitive at times, is still real enough to scare the hell out of us.
The greatest part of Channel Zero, though, is not it's art, or even it's story. It is it's fallout. Published in comic form back in the 1990s, and in graphic novel for the first time in 2000, this book is a pre-9/11 look into the post-9/11 world. With an oppressive "Clean Act" that is terribly remniscent of the USA PATRIOT Act of the real world, it was as if Brian was trying to warn us of the coming socio-political onslaught.
It's never to late to start listening.
Wow 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.
"Generica" the Beautiful 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.
revolutionary comics 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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