Dark Horse Comics has announced the August 17, 2016 debut of Briggs Land, a ripped-from-the-headlines crime saga set in a hundred square mile patch of wilderness that shelters the largest and most secretive anti-government secessionist movement in the United States.  Briggs Land was created by Brian Wood (DMZ, Rebels, The Massive), who is also serving as executive producer and writer on an adaptation of the new comic book series for AMC.

Mack Chater (Ashes, Six) will provide the interior art, while Tula Lotay (Rebels) is drawing the covers, and the Hugo Award nominated Lee Loughridge will be doing the coloring.  Wood, who is one of the most astute and politically aware writers working in comics, sees Briggs Land as “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.”

Wood also feels that having the backing of AMC is allowing him to expand the Briggs Land narrative and create a truly synergistic multi-media work: “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.”