Art by Wood and Riccardo Burchielli; Cover by Wood
From indie comics icon Brian Wood (Demo, Channel Zero, GLOBAL FREQUENCY) and up-and-coming Italian artist Riccardo Burchielli (John Doe) comes DMZ, the series about the ultimate embedded war journalist trapped in a most unlikely war zone: the streets of New York City.
In the near future, America's worst nightmare has come true. With military adventurism overseas bogging down the Army and National Guard, the U.S. government mistakenly neglects the very real threat of anti-establishment militias scattered across the 50 states. Like a sleeping giant, Middle America rises up and violently pushes its way to the shining seas, coming to a
standstill at the line in the sand — Manhattan or, as the world now knows it, the DMZ.Matty Roth, a naive young man and aspiring photojournalist, lands a dream gig following a veteran war journalist into the heart of the DMZ. Things soon go terribly wrong, and Matty finds himself lost and alone in a world he's only seen on television. There, he is faced with a choice: try to find a way off the island, or make his career with an assignment most journalists would kill for. But can he survive in a war zone long enough to report the truth?
A truly brilliant story and wonderful art pull you in and won't let go.
A movie desperately needs to be made of this series, if you could keep idiots from referencing Escape From New York when they talk about it.
Brian Wood also writes the excellent series Northlanders, another story about manVS.manVS environment...only 1000 years earlier.
