DMZ #2

DMZ #2 continues Vertigo's gritty urban war series with "On the Ground - Part Two," and Brian Wood's cover sets the tone perfectly: a pale, mohawked figure in a black jacket stands in profile beside a cluster of graffiti-tagged New York street signs, a red-cross bag slung over one shoulder — survival gear in a city that's become a battlefield. The sketchy, high-contrast artwork by Wood captures exactly the kind of tense, street-level atmosphere that Brian Wood's writing promises — "an inside look at a war without end.