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DMZ, Vol. 10: Collective Punishment (2011)

by Brian Wood(Favorite Author)

3.99 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1401231500 (ISBN13: 9781401231507)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Vertigo

series

DMZ

review 1: The story is winding down as NYC is destined to become part of the US again. Seen from the viewpoint of several characters, the last week as the bombs drop is a beautiful story. Those that stick around, those that leave, those that just survive.Has Matty learned anything, is he any smarter? Is he no longer a pawn of some agent (Parco, his parents, the media, his girlfriend? Is there hope for the city and those left there (new baby left in the streets)? Do people even change, no matter the situation (rich man complains about his lost status and the people that are beneath him)Well done, will be sorry to see the end of this.
review 2: Early in DMZ, Wood clearly doled out an increment more of hope along with all the death, decline, and tragedy. Dismantling p... morereconceptions 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 persists and mutates), story-lines grow increasingly bleak, problems increasingly intractable. Wood is perhaps holding a mirror up to our own sense of the insurmountable. This reader only hopes that some of that early humanism returns as the series comes to a close, offering not just the bitter survival of a few but solutions for the many. That is the power of imaginative fiction, right? less

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