DMZ #13

The "Public Works" arc kicks off with this striking January 2007 issue of Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli's Vertigo series, and Wood's own cover sets a vivid tone: a lone silhouetted figure stands defiantly atop rubble in a ruined cityscape, sledgehammer raised overhead, while military helicopters circle against a blood-orange sky. It's a raw, powerful image that captures the tense atmosphere of Manhattan as a war zone, suggesting both resistance and reconstruction in equal measure.