Series: DMZ
by Author Brian Wood
DMZ, Vol. 9: M.I.A. (2011)
This volume is saved by the short story opener. The continuation of the main narrative takes us from the last volume's implausible-but-interesting (Matty becomes fully enmeshed as a citizen of the DMZ, a doer who relinquishes his passive, journalistic objectivity) to the pathetic (Matty spends th...
DMZ, Vol. 11: Free States Rising (2012)
This is where it all comes together. The first 2 issues are backstory on the FSA Commander from the Tunnel, the one Matty always finds himself tangled up with and trying to figure out. The story does a very good job of fleshing out a character who's essential to the whole series in many ways, bu...
DMZ, Vol. 8: Hearts and Minds (2010)
Oh hey there, Moral Event Horizon! Guess we won't be needing to stay on this side of you any more!Yeah, this is quite meh. I don't really care about Delgado Nation Matty Roth. He's just another warlord. Part of the appeal of DMZ was the was that it was written from a subordinate perspective, that...
DMZ, Tome 6 : Un jeu sanglant (2010)
I finally feel like Wood's back in the swing of things with this volume. At this point, we've seen 5 straight volumes about the horrors of war and the duplicitous nature of the armies on each side, so it felt like a shift in tone was needed to keep this series going. Luckily, Wood achieved that i...
DMZ, Vol. 6: Blood in the Game (2009)
This Volume returns to Matty Roth and the big story after Vol 5. covered other characters.This time, it's about an election to put a provisional government in the DMZ. Matty is covering the story for Liberty News (even though he hates them), and what follows is a very interesting story about a '...