DMZ #51

This Vertigo series keeps delivering its unsettling vision of a war-torn Manhattan, and issue #51 opens the "M.I.A." arc with a cover by John Paul Leon that earns a long look. Rendered from a vertiginous bird's-eye perspective, the image looks straight down onto a deserted urban street — a blocky military vehicle parked at the curb, a lone figure pushing a cart far below, and the bold, stenciled letters "M.I.A." dominating the blacktop like a painted warning. Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli's DMZ has always found drama in emptiness and dread, and Leon's hushed, almost documentary composition sets exactly that tone for what promises to be a tense new chapter.