DMZ #3

A figure raises a sledgehammer triumphantly against a blood-red sky, standing atop rubble while military helicopters sweep through the haze above a devastated cityscape — it's a striking image that captures the raw, charged energy of Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchelli's DMZ. This third French-language volume, subtitled Travaux Publics, collects more of their gritty vision of a war-torn demilitarized Manhattan, where survival and defiance go hand in hand. Urban Comics continues to bring this Vertigo series to francophone readers in 2012, and this cover alone makes a compelling case for picking it up.