DMZ #22

The concluding chapter of the "Friendly Fire" arc arrives with a cover that is striking in its stark simplicity — a human face rendered entirely in orange from row upon row of tightly packed bullet casings, suggesting both identity and violence in the same breath. Brian Wood's cover design is spare but arresting, using ammunition as a mosaic to conjure something deeply human from something inherently deadly. With writing by Wood and interior art by Riccardo Burchielli, this 2007 Vertigo series continues to find ways to make its war-torn New York feel uncomfortably real.