Brian Wood

You might remember me talking to you about one my favorite new books, DMZ. Written by the very talented Brian Wood, it has quickly become one of the books I look forward to every month. But little did I know all the other work this maniac has put out! I had read DEMO, Wood's original scripts for what eventually became Marvels NYX, and POUNDED, his tale of slacker love gone wrong. I knew he also wrote LOCAL (I'm waiting for the trade), and COURIERS but hadn't gotten the chance to read them yet.

I was out putzing around on the net the other day when I stumbled across his website, ubiquitesly named www.brianwood.com, and I was shocked at all the stuff he has worked on. There are apparently 3 COURIERS books now, as well as THE TOURIST, SUPERMARKET (which just came out), FIGHT FOR TOMORROW (apparently I read this years ago), two CHANNEL ZERO trades, a CHANNEL ZERO Designbook, COUSCOUS EXPRESS, and he even co-wrote a year of GENERATION X for Marvel when they had Warren Ellis come in and redo it all in 2000. What really got me though was all the graphic design work that he does. Included in his credits are the covers for the GLOBAL FREQUENCY trades, a line of t-shirts called Northern Boy, the AIT/Planetar logos, as well as video game box designs for MANHUNT, STATE OF EMERGENCY, MIDNIGHT CLUB 2, and the GTA series, including GTA3, VICE CITY, and LIBERTY CITY. By now I'm sure you're just frothing at bit to get ahold of some of his work, so don't worry, I put all the books of his I could get on the "Best Books" display. But be fast, I've already had to restock it because it's all going so fast.

Now go, and fill the air with rumblings and praise.

-Dan