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Brian Wood And Mack Chater Launch Briggs Land From Dark Horse In August – And AMC To Come

Published Tue, 03 May 2016 16:14:51 -0500

Last updated Tue, 03 May 2016 16:15:01 -0500

August solicitations start now… Briggs Land by Brian Wood and Mack Chater with covers by Tula Lotay and colours by Lee Loughridge.

Wood is also adapting the comic as a TV series for AMC, as writer and exec producer with producing partners John Hodges and Ravi Nandan at A24.

The series tells the story of Briggs Land, nearly a hundred square miles of rural wilderness that harbors the largest and most secretive antigovernment secessionist movement in the United States. When matriarch Grace Briggs wrests control of the operation from her incarcerated husband, she sparks a war within the community—and her immediate family—that threatens to bring the full power of the federal government down on their heads.

Briggs Land #1 is in stores August 17, 2016. As for the AMC TV series…

"AMC and I have been looking for the right thing to work on together for years, and it finally came in the form of Briggs Land, a crime drama set within a rural secessionist community. It's the culmination of everything I've done in my twenty years as a comics creator, bringing socially conscious and politically charged themes to the page, putting some of the more unsettling elements of American culture under scrutiny," noted Brian Wood. "With AMC I have a much larger canvas to work on, and the ability to design the overall story so the TV show and the comic add to each other."

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