Big Brother meets Dark Angel in New York City
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 dark, paranoid, deep-ambient visual narrative.
"Channel Zero," is a terse, taut, techno thriller on what happens when a fascist, authoritarian governmental system replaces Democracy in present day America. The writing is quite exceptional in presenting a mostly believable 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.
*Note this trade paperback is current out of print because of creators rights issues.
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