DMZ Vol. 10: Collective Punishment

I got into DMZ relatively recently, so I've barreled through the entire series up to when Vol. 9 had just been released. I'll give you a bit of my own opinion of the series so you can ground your reading of my review and whether or not my opinion is close to yours: I really enjoyed volumes 1-8, though I was a little alarmed at how they handled the (current?) end of Matty's relationship with Parco's regime (and Matty's own feelings about it), but I'm open to seeing how this all works in Brian Wood's vision for the characters.Vol. 9 (M.I.A.) brought Matty back to square one in a way that wasn't terrible, but I felt its overall quality was dependent on how Wood decided to develop the story --it was an incomplete transition: if what came afterward was bad, then the transition in Vol. 9 was more forced than a wise move, if it was good than it was a great idea, etc. So I was looking forward to Vol. 10, especially knowing now that Wood plans to wrap up the series in the foreseeable future.Well, what we get in Vol. 10, Collective Punishment, is a quick read of some decent enough stories, but nothing really develops --in fact we're left with a number of open questions about several characters (which isn't a bad thing, but the entire volume felt like a set-up for much more interesting material later). I couldn't help but wish that there had been more development of the main plot. Instead, where we are at the end of Vol. 10 feels only slightly, very slightly, further along than where we were at the end of Vol. 9. Thus, like Vol. 9, Vol. 10 feels like its quality is going to depend, in hindsight, on how the story after it develops because this arc is very intertwined. I've got to say I never had this feeling after reading a volume as I did after finishing the first eight volumes.Sigh...so the wait continues until Vol. 11.

Brian Wood is a writer, illustrator, and graphic designer living in Brooklyn, New York. He is known primarily as a comic book creator; Wood both writes and illustrates graphic novels and serialized monthly comic books for a variety of publishers.

One has to wonder if what Wood wrote in this story could happen in our future. I am sure it could. He included every emotion, every scenario, all the crazies and all the good guys. Great story and awesome illustrations.

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if you haven't read DMZ...i highly recommend it. Recently finished a # of graphic novel series this past year including preacher and scalped. All 3 are well worth your time.

Great storyline , decent artwork.

Great story arrived on time and as described

What I wanted

DMZ has changed. It looks like the lengthy shock and awe exposé style of the initial volumes has gone for good, or at least for a while. What we have instead are short pieces of life writing that take us, quite briefly, into the heads of real fictional people.We revisit a few supporting characters that, you have to admit, you were wondering what happened to. Some of these stories get a little abstract but if you have made it this far Wood suspects you are robust enough for a little weirdness.There is a collection of artists once again, as has become the norm, but this time Burchielli is nowhere to be seen. Some quite abstract styles are at work, as one would suspect when you ask an artist to draw a story about an artist drawing, and there are some subtly creative flashbacks.You might get the feeling this isn't what you signed up for but the stories are still powerful and you don't doubt they aren't, in some way, relevant or true.For the bravery of the creativity this maintains a Thumbs Up!

perfect