DMZ #71

Part five of "The Five Nations of New York" arrives in this January 2012 issue of Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli's Vertigo series. John Paul Leon's cover art — rendered in a stark, limited palette of black, gold, and amber — dominates with a suited man at a podium, one hand raised as if taking an oath or addressing a crowd, his expression unreadable behind tinted glasses. It's a quietly powerful image that captures the series' ongoing fascination with power, politics, and survival in a fractured New York.