DMZ #45

DMZ #45 opens the five-part "Hearts and Minds" arc with a cover by John Paul Leon that immediately sets a tense, unsettling tone — a figure in a PRESS vest stands with their back to us, rifle slung over one shoulder, while a group of armed soldiers mills about in the hazy background. The image captures the series' signature tension between journalism and violence with quiet, understated power. Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli continue their unflinching look at life in a war-torn Manhattan, and this 2009 Vertigo issue promises to keep that moral complexity front and center.