DMZ

Set in a near-future America torn by a second civil war, DMZ follows a young medic trapped in the demilitarized zone of Manhattan, caught between the U.S. government and the Free States. Published by DC's Urban Comics imprint from 2012 to 2014, this 12-issue series is best known for the gripping, war-zone storytelling of writer Brian Wood and the gritty, photorealistic art of Riccardo Burchielli. It matters as a stark, thought-provoking exploration of journalism, survival, and the human cost of ideological conflict in a fractured nation.