It all gets a little far fetched here.

A great turn in character development. What do you do with a character you've essentially made unlikeable? Can he come back?

I like the turn Matty takes in this volume- it was definitely not what I expected, and bodes for an interesting conclusion to DMZ.

A couple of throw away filler stories and a bigger one retconning some of Matty's problems.

Woah.

The 50th anniversary issue was pretty pointless.The main story soldiers on. I wonder if Brian Wood has a plan, how to end the saga of Matt Roth. And how long it will take to get there.

After it showed promise in the previous volume;to the point of no return and all that;the made him come back with offering amnesty -_- it did not make sense, but here we go again back to the DMZ;maybe it will be the road to redemption,but I do not like how it was handled in this volume.Waiting to see where are we going with this new development!

First up is a collection of guest-illustrated micro-stories and single-page character bios. NGOA coms executive hires Matty and a cabbie to go real estate hunting in Manhattan so he can open a new communications hub. They drive the guy to the first spot on his list and rob him then tell him to get the hell out of Manhattan. An effective piece of DMZ characterization.Little Plastic ToyWordless black and white with a little pop of orange in a child's toy, which is apparently dangerous. Zee takes i...

A man hits rock bottom, not even seeking redemption - in fact, fighting with his very being *against* redemption - and finds something to put in its place. This is the heart of very good storytelling.And a satisfying, if not convenient or glossy way to achieve some measure of relief after the events of the last book.I'm glad to see Wood found a way to give this book and our favourite un-hero a future we still want to read. Feels very true to the guy we've been following all these years.

DMZ may not always be consistently good, but I will say it always does a good job of continuing it's narrative. For all it's touch and go's I've decided to stick with this one for now, especially because this volume seems like a real "pivot" to a new phase of the story.

So, now the previous volume comes into focus. We have a redemption arc happening. Good people do bad things in war and what happens next. At least, this seems more true to character. I can buy this. The continuation of the war and the reflecting on what the Bush Doctrine would mean to an American target is quite interesting. This gives a way for Americans to understand how their foreign policy and intervention affects people in a way they could understand. I am not sure that this graphic novel g...

I was starting to lose interest in this series, but I enjoyed both of these volumes (8 & 9). While I like seeing what's happened to the city, Wood sometimes spends too much time on that stuff. These books, smartly, stay on Matty and let the city's story unfold through him. Took too long to get to Matty's dark night of the soul, but it's pretty compelling (if maybe a little too far) when it goes down. I enjoyed it - still not entirely sure if I'm going to keep reading it though.

While I feel like the methods Wood used to get Matty Roth to where he is in this volume were a little cheap and unfounded, I have to say I really like what he's doing with the aftermath. Having essentially ruined his own life, credibility, integrity, oh, every aspect of his personality that made him likable, now Matty Roth is dealing with it. What we get in this volume is an honest, fairly heartbreaking deconstruction of the central character Wood has spent so much time developing, and I very mu...

It is very rare that anyone gets punished for acts that they committed during a war. Wars bring out the best and the worst of people. I'm not sure if humans would be what they are without it.

The book is so very interesting

I decided I wanted to re-read and finish reading DMZ. When I was a lot more into comic books, I started buying up trades, life got in the way right after I picked up M.I.A.First, I absolutely love this series. It is gritty, and raw and each character is unique and fascinating in their own way. Since the very beginning we have watched Matty Roth attempt to learn about and understand what life is like in the DMZ, and watch it break and corrupt him more and more.After hitting rock bottom, Wood trie...

I've been really impressed with this series from the get go. It's an interesting concept: civil war in the U.S in the 21st century. The perspective of the 'journalist' is good. The fact that the journalist (Matty Roth) has the connections he does simultaneously seems contrived, the only reason his character is able to survive in the DMZ for as long as he has, and the only way the story could conceivably encompass the enormity of the situation. Brian Wood seems to have thought this all through ve...

It was a while since I read DMZ, so some of the story I had forgotten. So that was a bit bad as I was confused about some of the plot points. But on the other hand, I thought the writing in this one was better then in the last few I read. If that is due to it being better, or only due to the time since I read it, I do not no. In any case, I enjoyed it. I do wonder how the protagonist after four years of living in a warzone, manage to look like a pro cross-fit trainer, but that is a question for

This series is really good and this volume was particularly good. It was a lot of little stories about side characters in between advancing the main plotline.

Volume 9, MIA, picks up with a series of short pieces about various people in the DMZ (Wilson, Zee, Kelly, Business Investors, Soames, the leader of the FSA, etc.). There's some very good stuff there, which does a great job of further expanding our knowledge of these people and the situation around, and catching up with people we've maybe not seen for a bit.The main storyline, MIA, picks up after the explosive finale of Vol 8...Matty is now living in self-imposed exile in the outskirts of Manhat...