DMZ #68
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Art by RICCARDO BURCHIELLI
Cover by JOHN PAUL LEON
Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
So we go on with the peace process and I have trouble thinking of new superlatives for this exceptional series. This issue opens with an historic armistice signing, narrated via news reports. The art and language used in the scene convey both an awkwardness and an early sense of just how precarious the peace could be. That transitions to the meat of the issue, which shows Matty begin to interview people across the city who are involved in the rebuilding.
As has always been the case with DMZ, two storylines seem to unfold together. First the character based plotline of Matty Roth, but secondly the story of a New York city at war. It's all fiction of course, but the New York and it's citizens that Brian Wood writes seem to be totally true to life. This chapter focusses on what peace means to lower Manhattan as different types of people do what they can to make the best of an uncertain future, whether that's in the best interests of the city or not.
There's a scene near the beginning which shows Matty and Zee visit Ground Zero, which in the world of DMZ is still a crater in the ground. It's never really been overtly mentioned in the series, yet DMZ as a whole is a story very much produced in the shadow of 9/11. It's always seemed to contain a lot of the emotions created by that terrible event, and the story itself has always held something of a mirror to the wars and policies that have come along in it's wake. It's a short simple yet powerful scene.
This is a book that is essentially talking heads but that's not a criticism at all. There's no action but it grips me with every page. The script rivets me, it's so natural, angry, emotional and real. Burchielli and Cox match the words with perfect images that never waste a panel. When I turned to that final page, Matty sat looking out over a New York sunset, it was everything I imagine a late summer evening in this fictionalised NYC would be.
In short, this is war fiction done exactly right. Wood has said that he never exactly copies actual incidents in real wars, yet he's clearly driven by what he reads and sees in the news and manages to give the reader a taste of everything that is both right and wrong with the world today within his 20 short pages. This and the other 67 issues are a tremendous achievement, a work that deserves to stand shoulder to shoulder with it's contemporaries, no matter what the medium.
Story: 5 - Excellent
Art: 5 - Excellent
Art: 5 - Excellent
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