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Tomorrow brings a ton of new releases to your local comic book store. Witness new stories from the early years of the Jedi order, Bucky Barnes striking out on his own, environmental apocalypse from the writer of DMZ, and scads of other groovy funnymags. More »
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Here's an exclusive preview of Dark Horse's upcoming Conan the Barbarian series by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan (interview here). You can read an exclusive two-page preview of the first issue below, and check out a gallery of the series' sword-swinging covers, including a first look at the fourth issue's cover art. Conan the Barbarian #1 hits stands February 8.

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Happy 2012, comic shop patrons! This Wednesday, there's a bunch of promising new reading material on the stands awaiting your eager eyeballs. And no, the "gangster horror" in the headline has nothing to do with Ice-T smoking a joint with Warwick Davis. More »
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At the New York Comic Con, io9 spoke with author Brian Wood (DMZ, Northlanders) and illustrator Becky Cloonan (Demo, American Virgin) about their new Conan The Barbarian series for Dark Horse Comics. The animated duo told io9 about their various upcoming projects (and elaborated on the creative hurdles one encounters when drawing a sexy pirate naturist). More »
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Comic creator Brian Wood (DMZ, Northlanders, Channel Zero) has posted his 132-page artbook Public Domain 2 free for download on his Tumblr. If you're a fan of his dystopian cover designs for DMZ, you'll want to give this a peep. More »
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In Brian Wood's DC/Vertigo comic series DMZ, Manhattan is a shattered hellhole at the epicenter of the Second American Civil War. In reality, New York City is Wood's home and muse. Here are Wood's favorite spots for dystopian inspiration.

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Revealed with a sly "I think a lot of you have guessed," Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan have confirmed that they are working on a new Demo series for DC's Vertigo imprint. The new six issue series will revive the black-and-white Twilight Zone-esque series about people discovering superpowers towards the end of the year. Unusually for a DC book, the new series will be in the same black and white, no advertisements, format as the original twelve-issue run. "There was a lot of magic in the original series that I didn't want to mess with," Wood said. More »
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Graphic novel Channel Zero was a turn-of-the-millennium, visually-groundbreaking entry in the "corporate-dystopian America" genre, winning awards and making a name for its creator, writer/designer Brian Wood. Such was its success that a collection of sketches, mini-comics and preparatory design work for the graphic novel were released, called Public Domain. Now that the publishing rights have reverted to Wood, he's decided to make the collection live up to its name. He's put the entire 145-page book up on his website as a free download. Want to know what the cutting-edge near-future looked like, ten years ago? It's all in here. Public Domain: Free Book Download [Brian Wood] More »
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