DMZ Vol. 2: Body of a Journalist

Volume 2 is, if anything, better than Volume 1. How this came to pass is beyond my reckoning, but let me just say that Brian Wood can WRITE and Riccardo Burchielli has a difficult name to spell. Also, he can DRAW. Seriously, these guys bring a richly detailed world to life with gritty violence, complex characters, and highly topical political issues.The storylines in this particular book delve deeper into the governmental involvement in the DMZ and give us a brief glimpse of the Free States fighters. And if the violence doesn't turn you on, I guarantee you that there is sex. Not enough? Someone's head gets shot with a bullet. Deal with it!This volume wraps up with a recap of the places and people of the DMZ - literally a travellers guide to a warzone. Well worth the wait.

The second collection of DMZ continues with this excellent volume. Whilst the first volume focused on setting up the stage for our young protagonist, this volume fills in some of the character, and the DMZ world's back story. This volume is also more of a coherent and integrated story arc than the previous volume, with the whole volume focused on the kidnapping of a journalist in the DMZ. No, it's not our hero, but it some one we've met before.Also included in this vloume is a extra section detailing the back story of Zee is very welcome, she's an excellent and complex character how deserves the screen time she's getting.The continued parrellels with the American Military occupation of Iraq, and lifes (and deaths) of Journalists in that warzone, give this story a timely relevency.

I have not yet finished the series, but I am certainly "hooked". I like the "dossier" of places and characters at the end of this volume.

If you bought volume one of this series, then wait no longer to purchase this volume. picks up right where volume one left off, and it does not dissapoint. loved it so much, i'm now up to volume four.

Great story arrived on time and as described

Amazing story. I'm completely hooked and bought the next 2 parts

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.

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.

DMZ is for me, a classic already. well worth your time and money.

Cette note est égale à la somme d'un auteur de génie, Bryan Wood, qui cumul chef d'oeuvre sur chef d'oeuvre et d'un dessinateur italien au sommet de son art. Dans cette épisode, l'apport des photos de Matty à la fin du volume nous immerge complètement dans cette univers post-apocalyptique ou les idées de deux parties s'affrontent sur une "Suisse" de plus en plus à la merci des sois disant héros de l'humanité. Cette corrélation implicite entre un média, que le lecteur doute de plus en plus de sa véracité et la "vie" au sein de cette communauté, de plus en plus attachante complète cette immersion et s'ajoute au points positifs de cette "oeuvre d'art". Rien ne m'a déplu dans cet ouvrage et je le conseillerai à tout les férus du journalisme fictionnel.