Series has promise, but not quite there yet

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	• DMZ Vol. 2: Body of a Journalist Vertigo, 2007 - 168 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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Series has promise, but not quite there yet

Volume 2 of the Brian Wood/Riccardo Burchielli Vertigo series DMZ is a step up from the first, offering a clearer focus, better stories and a stronger exploration of the series' premise, but I still can't help but feel that Wood & Co aren't quite there.

I'd LIKE it to get there. The premise is fantastic. An America at war with itself? A new Civil War with New York City as the backdrop? Sounds awesome. I wish it actually lived up to its promise.

The characters are shallower than an inflatable kiddie pool - I've spent 12 issues with Matty Roth and Zee, and feel like I barely know them - and the dialogue lacks life and punch. It's a string of profanities without character or personality. Sure, Wood CAN feature raw language (it's a Vertigo title, after all), but if it's not adding anything to the characters or story, drop it.

And it's not adding anything to the characters or story.

Still, if I'm complaining don't let that be an indication that I didn't enjoy this. I did. The second volume of DMZ was a big step up from the first. There is a good story arc here centering on corruption, propaganda, and manipulating the media to influence public opinion. Some very solid themes here that could have used more exploitation, but nonetheless were enjoyable to read. We've got some new characters, some political intrigue, betrayals and double-crossings, and the sense that something larger is at work. It took a while, but we start to tap into the series' potential. We get into some ideas and some (at times too overt) political commentary.

I like that. I like that especially because I hate to see great potential go to waste.

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Getting Better All the Time

Volume 2 of Brian Wood's Vertigo series provides some insights into the civil war that's divided the country and explains how Manhattan morphed into "DMZ." The bullets and bombs still fly fast and furious, and journalist Matt Roth goes from reporting to the story to becoming the story. The artwork, by Riccardo Burchielli and fill-in artist Kristian Donaldson, is nothing short of amazing--one of the better pairings of writer and artist(s) in some time in the comics world. "Body of a Journalist" is better as a whole than the first collection, although I give both collections the thumbs-up.

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Almost As Good As Vol. 1

DMZ is an amazing comic and I'm so glad I got into it. As fun as read the 2nd set for DMZ: Body of A Journalist, it just didn't strike me the way the first one did. By no stretch of the imagination am I saying it was bad, far from it. I gobbled up every page with my eyes as quick as possible, and was left wanting more. I enjoyed meeting the odd group of people in the first Volume more, even though the story in the second seems a little more fleshed out.
If you like reading DMZ Vol. 1, DMZ Vol. 2 will satisfy you just fine.

Brian Wood is the Sh**

Get this book and Vol. 1 -- not tomorrow, not later, RIGHT NOW. You won't be disappointed.

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America's worst nightmare has come true. Having neglected the threat of anti-establishment militias, the U.S. government is in danger of losing control. Middle America has violently risen up, coming to a standstill at Manhattan or, as the world now knows it, the DMZ.

Matty Roth, a naïve, aspiring photojournalist, lands a dream gig following a veteran war journalist into the heart of the DMZ. Things soon go terribly wrong, and Matty finds himself lost and alone in a world he's only seen on television.

In this volume, Roth's star power as a wartime reporter rises both within and outside the DMZ and the embedded journalist lands the break of a lifetime: an interview with the infamous leaders of the Free Armies.

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