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I am not at all sure why I keep buying these DMZ collected editions.Like this one. Nothing much happens in these short stories about the life in DMZ during the bombings-that-is-going-to-make-all-better and nothing really moves the original plot line forward. Bombs drop, people hide in cellars and think and talk alot. Book finished.
Holy Shit. All hell breaks loose.
I'm sorry to say I found this one of the weakest volumes of DMZ. The story seems to have stagnated, and I'm not sure I'm connecting with it. I hate to think what it would be like reading this in five parts over five months, since barely anything happens.With luck the next volume returns to actually moving the story forward, as I can't help feeling the series is living on borrowed time.
Collective PunishmentFive Single Stories, different people different point of viewsThe Ending of the War, The Bombing of the city, Raise it to the ground to have a fresh new start!We meet again with Matty Roth at the fifth story to see the city for the last/first time!Not that bad of a volume!Waiting the end in two volumes!
easily the weakest so far. doesn't advance the story. hoping the last collected editions get back to DMZ properly. the last collection was a step down as well. if you're following the main story you can easily skip this one and miss nothing
It's hard to gain trust back once you've lost it.
The standalone stories in this volume are heartbreaking, most featuring some sad ends for some of my favorite DMZ characters. A great setup heading into the final run.
Unforgiving is how these stories hit me. Like Wood wants to make sure no one gets out of this series alive or with any black/white thinking or comfort left.I get that this stage of the "war" was pretty much inevitable, but wow do I wish it could go some other way. Not the war we want but the war we deserve, or something like it.I found that once I knew this was a collection of single-issue stories, it was hard to motivate reading them. Like this would just be a series of short, sharp barbs that
Early in DMZ, Wood clearly doled out an increment more of hope along with all the death, decline, and tragedy. Dismantling preconceptions about life in the war zone, he depicted cooperative networks, community pride, and above all, collective survival. Amidst the regressions of gang violence, military brutality, and individual opportunism, many of those in the DMZ survive because they do so together. But as the series progresses (and the so-called war on terror that inspired its creation persist...
Never read a dmz before now. It was a goodset of storiesProsGood amount of violenceGood storiesGreat artworkConsThe story of the street artist was boring and not intresting.ConclusionWould of got 5 if the book was perfect for it is 4.5 very close. Justdidnt like the street art story
Better? I mean, literally every story without Matty Roth seems to be better than stories with Matty Roth.
This could've been another volume filled with filler stories (just like volume 5). But the short stories in this volume capture the soul of the city torn by war and rises above being just filler.
Another collection of shorts.Five Hours Under FireA spy for the US Army infiltrates the DMZ to guide bombs. While pretending to be a frightened local, he is recognized for what he is by Zee. When another Manhattan woman absolves him of his crimes against the locals, he runs guilt-stricken off into the night. Not one of the better stories but it reminds the reader about Zee's utility and courage and adds a bit more depth to the already impressive level of detail Wood has created in this conflict....
I'm not crazy about these short story collections usually, but most of these stories really stand out this time.
Out standing.
This whole series was just brilliant, and the last part the most so. Wood's genius is in the way he captures ordinary human emotion and response, painted against extraordinary backdrops. DMZ is a savage condemnation of war, and the institutions that wage it like its a chess game, and at the same time a real celebration of humanity, from selfishness to empathy; courage to cowardice. Wood touches and plays with concepts like justice or ceasefire; individual vs institutional responsibility in arcs
So, when the stories are kept to a single character and super small focus, they can have a large emotional impact. This volume contained some such stories. There were also less words and that let the pictures breathe with a lot of space for thinking. Maybe it is how some have described war. A lot of waiting and boredom and then a lot of action. This is the quiet moments where you can see what the characters are about and it explains a lot more than some of the more busy times.
It was ok. That is all.
It seems to be a fairly common occurrence in comics to, in the ramp up to the final blowout ending of a page-turner series, suddenly take a hard left turn out of the central plot and publish a bunch of one-off stories, almost as an attempt to stall for time. Fables does this quite often, as did Scalped. But somehow, I almost always like these stories, as I did in this volume.After the events in vols. 8 and 9 of DMZ, it's pretty damn clear we're in the final stages of this story. Pieces are being...
Volume 10 gives us 5 separate stories about 5 different people in the DMZ, and their experiences during the USA's heavy bombing of Manhattan in the aftermath of the nuclear detonation.First up we have the story of Cal Foster, a new character, a sort of new 21st Century urban soldier I suppose? He works for the USA, infiltrated NYC, and 'painted targets' for the bombing campaign. He then seems shelter underground and runs into Zee and some others waiting out the bombings. Here he runs into Zee, w...
