50 Books - #3
Sep. 25th, 2007 11:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forsyth#3: DMZ: Volume 3: Public Works Written by Brian Wood and Drawn by Riccardo Burchielli
DMZ is an amazing comic. It's set in Manhattan, during the Second American Civil War. Volume 3 picks up with the effects of a no-bid reconstruction contract given to a shady company with connections to the President and a reputation for corruption. Oh, and hiring mercenaries.
That's not the only part of it, though. But even with that, what makes DMZ great isn't the individual plots. It's the depiction of life in a war zone, for the civilians who live there. And then it places that in New York City, to bring it home. That and the art both make it much more direct.
Man, I suck at literary-type reviews. It's a good comic. Read it.
I'm still working my way through How to Win Friends & Influence People.
Previous Books:
#2: Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
#1: Grave Peril
DMZ is an amazing comic. It's set in Manhattan, during the Second American Civil War. Volume 3 picks up with the effects of a no-bid reconstruction contract given to a shady company with connections to the President and a reputation for corruption. Oh, and hiring mercenaries.
That's not the only part of it, though. But even with that, what makes DMZ great isn't the individual plots. It's the depiction of life in a war zone, for the civilians who live there. And then it places that in New York City, to bring it home. That and the art both make it much more direct.
Man, I suck at literary-type reviews. It's a good comic. Read it.
I'm still working my way through How to Win Friends & Influence People.
Previous Books:
#2: Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
#1: Grave Peril
