Massive Library Edition Volume 1,The

In a post-war, post-crash, post-disaster, post-everything world, the environmental-action trawler Kapital scours the earth's oceans for its mysteriously missing sistership, The Massive. Captain Callum Israel, a man who has dedicated his life to the ocean, now must ask himself--as our planet dies--what it means to be an environmentalist after the world's ended.

This oversize hardcover collects issues #0-#15 of acclaimed writer Brian Wood's sprawling, post-apocalyptic epic.

Brian Wood is the creator/cocreator and writer of numerous comic books and graphic novels, including DMZ, The Massive, Channel Zero, Demo, The Couriers, Northlanders, Rebels, and Briggs Land.

He cowrote the video game screenplay for 1979 Revolution, and has three television projects in active development.

His work on company-owned and licensed work includes Star Wars, The X-Men, Conan the Barbarian, and Aliens. In his previous career as a graphic designer, his clients included Rockstar Games, Eidos Interactive, Nerve Software, and Nike.

He is most known for his work dealing with near-future world building, but also for historical fiction, sci-fi, and female-friendly YA, all with strong socio-political topics and identity themes.