DMZ #9

Part four of five in the "Body of a Journalist" arc, this 2006 Vertigo entry from Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli captures the raw tension at the heart of DMZ. Wood's cover art layers a crouching figure clutching a camera over a graffiti-tagged wall dominated by a stenciled face wearing a press helmet — a striking visual collision of street-level urgency and wartime media. It's a quietly compelling image that says everything about what's at stake when a journalist operates in a demilitarized zone with no safety net.