Brian Wood

In August 2019, ComicsAlliance founder Laura Hudson stated that Wood had harassed her and attempted to forcefully kiss her at a bar years previously. She also expressed admiration for Fowler and apologised for not coming forward sooner, which Fowler accepted. Following these allegations, Dark Horse Comics announced that "(e)ffective immediately, Dark Horse will not pursue any new projects with Brian Wood. Dark Horse has cancelled the upcoming series Aliens Colonial Marines: Rising Threat."

In June 2018, Wood and Mack Chater launched the monthly series Sword Daughter.

In September 2018, Dark Horse announced Aliens: Resistance, written by Wood with art by Robert Carey, Dan Jackson, and Tristan Jones. It was followed soon after by Aliens: Rescue, with Kieran McKeown, colorist JL Straw, letterer Nate Piekos, and Mack Chater and Robert de la Torre on covers.

In 2016, Wood and artist Tristan Jones launched Aliens: Defiance, a new monthly series in the mold of the original 1979 film. It ran for 12 issues and collected into two volumes. It introduced the character of Zula Hendricks.

In 2016 Wood commenced work on Briggs Land, writing both a monthly comic book for Dark Horse Comics and a television pilot script for AMC Networks. Wood confirmed on his Goodreads page that the AMC pilot is not moving forward.

Rebels, a historical series set during the American Revolution,, was co-created in 2014 with artist Andrea Mutti. In 2017, Wood and Andrea Mutti returned for a second Rebels series, entitled These Free and Independent States.

Shortly after his DC Comics exclusive ended, Wood wrote a series of X-Men comics for Marvel, starting with the Wolverine & The X-Men: Alpha and Omega miniseries. He was then announced as the ongoing writer of the "adjectiveless" X-Men title and penned issues #30–37. He signed on to Ultimate Comics: X-Men and wrote issues #13–33. When X-Men was rebranded as an all-female title, he continued on as writer for the first 17 issues of that series. In 2014 he wrote Moon Knight #6–12

In November 2013, cartoonist Tess Fowler accused Wood of sexual harassment. Wood addressed Fowler's accusations, stating, "I did make a [verbal] pass at her [in 2003] at the SDCC Hyatt bar, but when she declined, that was the conclusion of the matter for me. There was never an exertion of power, no threats, and no revenge."

The Massive #1–30 (#1–3 with Kristian Donaldson, #4–9, #13–30 with Garry Brown, others) and The Massive: Ninth Wave #1–6 with Garry Brown collected as:

Wood is credited as writing two web series in 2012 for Geek & Sundry adapting three The Massive short stories and the first story arc of his and Becky Cloonan's Conan the Barbarian.

In August 2011, Wood discussed the conclusion of Northlanders, the ending of his exclusive and regular work for DC Comics, and the rumors he was working on a Supergirl series for the New 52.

Northlanders (with Davide Gianfelice, Dean Ormston, Ryan Kelly, Vasilis Lolos, Danijel Žeželj, Leandro Fernandez, Fiona Staples, Riccardo Burchielli, Becky Cloonan, Simon Gane, Matt Woodson, Marian Churchland, Paul Azaceta and Declan Shalvey, 2008–2012) collected as:

2006 saw the publication of the graphic novel The Tourist from Image Comics, and Supermarket, a 4-issue series from IDW co-created and drawn by Kristian Donaldson.

In August 2006, DC Comics announced that Wood was signed to an exclusive contract.

DMZ (script and art, with Riccardo Burchielli, Kristian Donaldson, Nathan Fox, Danijel Žeželj, Nikki Cook, Ryan Kelly, Andrea Mutti, Cliff Chiang, David Lapham, Shawn Martinbrough and others, DC Comics/Vertigo, 2006–2012) collected as:

In late 2003, Wood quit his staff job at Rockstar Games and teamed with artist Becky Cloonan to create the monthly series Demo. Each of the 12 issues told its own complete story, and included eight pages of "backmatter", bonus material that was intentionally left out of the eventual collected edition. The Demo format proved so successful that Wood went on to replicate it, with minor changes, for his 12-issue series Local at Oni Press, begun in 2005 and drawn by artist Ryan Kelly. Local differs from Demo in that it includes a focal character, Megan McKeenan, whose character arc is gradually traced through the series, although she is not always the protagonist within each issue. This difference has led Local down its own path; Wood refers to it as "transcending its 'done in one' format to really be about Megan's story, her life, that progression over time".

Wood was absent from comics for two years, working at a series of Internet design jobs during the dot-com boom. In early 2000, Warren Ellis offered Wood a co-writing job on Marvel Comics' Generation X, as part of Ellis's Counter-X run (in which Ellis served as "Plotmaster"). Wood co-wrote issues #63–70 with Ellis, and wrote #71–75 on his own.

Wood returned to creator-owned comics between 2000 and 2003, producing several graphic novels and miniseries, including Couscous Express, The Couriers, and Jennie One for AIT, Pounded for Oni Press, and Fight For Tomorrow for DC's imprint Vertigo. He was employed as AIT's art director for roughly six months, creating not only their logo and branding, but covers for many of the books they published during this time. He worked again with Ellis, creating 14 covers for the Wildstorm series Global Frequency.

Wood's first professional work in comics was the 5-issue miniseries Channel Zero, published by Image Comics from 1997–98, initially created as part of a final project for graduation from Parsons School of Design. Channel Zero is set in a dystopian near-future New York City where the tenets of Mayor Giuliani have grown into a freedom-restricting government initiative called 'The Clean Act'. The protagonist is Jennie 2.5, a DIY media personality. Channel Zero was orphaned shortly after Image Comics sold out of the first print run of the collection, opting not to return to press. AiT/Planet Lar acquired it soon afterwards.

Wood was born in Essex Junction, Vermont. He relocated to New York City in 1991 and graduated from Parsons School of Design in 1997.

Wood is credited with co-writing 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, created by Navid Khonsari.

Brian Wood (born 1972) is an American writer, illustrator, and graphic designer. He is known primarily as a comic book creator, and has also written for television and video games.