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A review by frasersimons
Channel Zero: The Complete Collection by Brian Wood
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
This isn’t as polished as you might expect but it was better than I’d expected from a debut amateur effort, too. It’s also actually post-cyberpunk, in that it neatly demonstrates how mainstream culture co-opts everything dissimilar from it, diffusing it.
When the U.S. passes a bill that places all information in its borders as censored by the government, a would be revolutionist attempts to wake up some of the population with pirate broadcasts.
The art style looks like old zines and fits the subject matter well, but it also doesn’t do all that much work. Similarly, the plot gets the job done, but just barely. Some things are retread upon. It’s very simple. But it is certainly still relevant to now and situates in the cyberpunk canon very nicely, since what happens in it is, essentially, what happened to the movement itself. Thankfully, since people contribute to the genre it never by any stretch died, though. Only the movement itself did. What goes on similarly parallels this story.
When the U.S. passes a bill that places all information in its borders as censored by the government, a would be revolutionist attempts to wake up some of the population with pirate broadcasts.
The art style looks like old zines and fits the subject matter well, but it also doesn’t do all that much work. Similarly, the plot gets the job done, but just barely. Some things are retread upon. It’s very simple. But it is certainly still relevant to now and situates in the cyberpunk canon very nicely, since what happens in it is, essentially, what happened to the movement itself. Thankfully, since people contribute to the genre it never by any stretch died, though. Only the movement itself did. What goes on similarly parallels this story.