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katierodante's review
5.0
Awesome. Somehow I had heard long before I got around to reading this one that volume 10 was the final DMZ trade. I'm glad it isn't.
civreader's review
4.0
Very good addition to the series. More a stop-gap before the final two books, though. Interesting to catch up with some secondary characters, as well as Matty at the end, but now I really just want to read about the end-game.
Still a must-read series for all fans of, well, reading. Not just comics/alternate history/dystopian sci-fi.
Still a must-read series for all fans of, well, reading. Not just comics/alternate history/dystopian sci-fi.
archytas's review
5.0
This whole series was just brilliant, and the last part the most so. Wood's genius is in the way he captures ordinary human emotion and response, painted against extraordinary backdrops. DMZ is a savage condemnation of war, and the institutions that wage it like its a chess game, and at the same time a real celebration of humanity, from selfishness to empathy; courage to cowardice. Wood touches and plays with concepts like justice or ceasefire; individual vs institutional responsibility in arcs that cover war crimes; populist leaders; war profiteering companies, but doesn't ever feel compelled to tidy it up and present a cohesive view. He revels in the messyness of life, of survival in a war zone, and is one of the few who looks at the survival of identity, not just of physicality. The latter is the predominant theme of the vignettes which start this volume - the crime lord and civilian protector, who still sees himself as a rebel, confronted with bowing to an army; the artist whose community is long since gone; and most of the central protagonist, a journalist who no longer knows what that should be. Awesome stuff.
Plus, pretty. Very, very pretty.
Plus, pretty. Very, very pretty.
francomega's review
3.0
Nice transitional pieces leading up to the final two volumes. Nothing significant.
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