DMZ Trade Paperbacks

“… Today marks the fifth anniversary of the initial outbreak of hostilities between the United States of America and the so-called “Free States.” It is also the third day of a tentative ceasefire, and despite all predictions, it appear to be holding.”

That’s the backdrop for DMZ, the edgy trade paperback written by Brian Wood. Imagine Civil War II here in the USA. Wood sets the scene on Manhattan Island where the actual “DMZ” or demilitarized zone exists between the “Free States” and the US. The story follows Matt Roth, a young photo tech intern who lands an accompanying photo-op with a Nobel Prizewinning news journalist from Liberty News into the Manhattan DMZ where “life over there remains largely a mystery.” With NYPD escort, they Black Hawk in to a smoldering city in ruins, that eerily, instantly brings to mind 9/11 and the Twin Towers.

You can read our blog on it here