Brian Wood to head 'DV8' revival

Writer Brian Wood is to write a relaunched series of the comic DV8 for WildStorm Productions.

Wood - known for his gritty, violent series such as DMZ, Demo and Northlander - will take the reigns of WildStorms' team of cruel and self-serving teenage superhumans in an eight-issue miniseries DV8: Gods and Monsters.

"This is the thing that is probably going to surprise a lot of people who read my work, and also make me sound a little dorky, but I've literally been trying to write this book for most of my career," Wood told Comic Book Resources.

"I've pitched DV8 to WildStorm easily a half-dozen times over the last decade, and even this version now wasn't the easiest sell in the world. I like to think it speaks to the quality of my story that it convinced WildStorm to relaunch this book despite not having any previous plans to do so."

DV8 was created by Warren Ellis and Humberto Ramos in the mid-'90s.