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A collection of tragic stories with some hope thrown in.
Unclear why I'm doing this to myself. Or why I'm even giving these three stars. I'm not really enjoying this.
Various minor characters get the spotlight for a change, but it's the same old shallow, generic, exploitative, pseudo-political story. I'm outta here...
I enjoyed these stand-alones, but didn't LOVE them. I dunno, a few of them didn't feel tied into what we've been used to in the previous comics, and a few I felt could have gone further, actually I liked them but felt like I would have liked a more dramatic arc for the Amina one, since she is a really interesting character. Didn't feel like we learned MORE about her from the stand alone. Still really enjoyable, but felt overall skippable in context.
Background/motivation of some of the non-Matty characters.
The War in New York City continues.But this time, we learn about the war for the prospective of other people - most of whom we haven't encountered yet. A underground DJ; a reluctant, delusional FSA soldier; a Street Graffiti artist who dreams of the ultimate tag; a lowly Triad member who takes advantage of the war to rise to the top; and the girlfriend reporter who discovers more than the story in the war zone.
There is a right and a wrong time for fillers, after four fluctuating issues is not the right time. You have not converted me into a fan and then you give me a bunch nonsense to read through? And on top of that you kill one of my favourite main characters in a filler issue? What were they thinking?
A pace change after the last book. I get that. But some missed opportunities to add more detail and depth to the main arcs with Amina and Wilson and some random stories that were enjoyable but....unnecessary? Not sure see what happens next I guess
This is a step back from the last two volumes. Mostly a bunch of one shots of the DMZ city but none of them are all that compelling. We go into the life of a warlord, or gang leader, or whatever you want to call him. We also get a look at a character from volume 3 and how she is surviving the streets. The other issues focus on a news reporter Matty knew, and how she died. Overall, none of these are bad but none very interesting. Probably the best was the news reporter but even that wasn't all th...
Eh. Thing about DMZ is that it's always about people living in a warzone, so six unrelated short stories about people living in a warzone that don't do much to expand our understanding of the series don't really add much to the series. I didn't feel that I learned much more about the neighborhoods or the culture of the DMZ; in a few stories, I don't even feel like I learned much about the character involved! The last two stories, Soames and the DJ short, were both poorly scripted and hard to fol...
Jus' everyday New Yorkers, man, jus' tryin' to get by, dog, makin' beats and shit, and there may be a nonsensical red-states/blue-city war on and who knows how they eat, but yo, Zoo York is unbreakable, homes, fo' life. Laughable bs.
Five stand-alone issues, individual stories that flesh out The War and the New York setting. It's an excellent idea for a volume but a mixed bag in execution.Decade Later...is the tag of a renowned Manhattan graffiti artist who wants to push the public to look beyond the immediate present. He's regularly beaten by a local militia for refusing to join up and eventually gets erroneously arrested as a militant anyways. This ironically affords him a bird's eye view of his magnum opus, a decades-long...
This was the first DMZ installment that I can call a genuine disappointment. Wood collects here a few single-issue tales giving the backstories of a couple notable DMZ characters. Unfortunately, none of them are particularly compelling, and none of them drive the overarching DMZ story forward in any meaningful fashion.What we get instead is a rather pointless death scene for Kelly Connolly, a confusing "origin story" for Soames, and some other random bits that don't really add up to anything I c...
Was this one filler? Didn't really do much for me.
If you love the City, whether in spirit or in reality, these stories will make you ache to smell it. Pretty books and pretty words and not too far from ugly truths.
After two really strong volumes, this collection of single issues picks up characters from around the DMZ in stories that don't seem quite as... important. It's more color than content, especially as it focuses on a couple of artists that have gotten mentioned in the past. Amina reappears in a story that is probably the most brutal in the collection, touching on the fragile alliances and questionable behavior of everyone in the DMZ, but it's Wilson's story that really seems to provide the most i...
A little backstory and some character stories. Also the story of an artist that does a big art project that can only be seen and appreciated from the sky and in a particular way. Reading Preacher book six and there is a similar event. It makes you wonder when you read a bunch of things together and see similarities.
These six stand alone stories do a great job of delving deeper into some of the sideline characters in the DMZ world.
This volume was really hit-or-miss. A collection of one-shots spotlighting different people living in the DMZ, this should have been a nice break from Matty's sometimes frustrating narration, and for the most part it was. The stories about Wilson, Amina, and Random Fire were all great, and the story about graffiti artist Decade Later was just stunning. However, the story about the defecting soldier, Soames, was confusingly rendered, making it hard to discern its point.And then there was the stor...
A break from the main story,Single stories, different styles, Different point of views of different individuals.Some recurring characters like Amina and Kelly and some new ones but :/ did not care that much about them :/ An OK volume! less than average though.
