Your favorite Vertigo series is back and the synopsis of the July issue is released! Marching towards the last 15 issues 100 Bullets becomes more thrilling than ever, the plot is finally being revealed step by step and the dark characters of Azarello’s and Risso’s noir vision approach the grand finale. What really happened in Atlantic City? What’s agent Graves’ secret agenda? What will be Dizzy Cordova’s fate and what about the rest of the Minutemen? Well, in a little more than a year there will be no secrets left so enjoy it while it lasts!
After the events of #81-83 in Rome the story shifts to two other heroes, the Minutemen Victor Ray and Remi Rome, the description in the official site of Vertigo is the following:
“Minutemen Victor Ray and Remi Rome are in need of a vacation, so they head to scenic Lake Tahoe for some R and R with the beautiful people. But you know what they say — “All play and no work make The Minutemen dull boys…””
So is this going to be a revealing issue about the facts of the past through a seemingly indifferent event or a break between two big story turns? There have been quite a few of both in the past 83 issues so any bet is not safe, but really who cares? This is one of the best written comics ever made, a masterpiece of narrative coming to a peak, are you really going to ignore it?
There’s been only a few comics series in the entire history of the 9th art that succeeded in so many different fields as DMZ. I might be stating the obvious but it’s really hard to ignore how solid and absolutely realistic the story is, I love the art and the characters will be stuck in my head a long, long time after I’ll be done reading it, and guess what, there’s a new story arc beginning this April with part 1 of the 5-part “Friendly Fire”. What do you mean you don’t know what DMZ is? Allow me then:
In a grim near future the United States are shattered by a second civil war, and the island of Manhattan is the demilitarized zone none of the opponents can take over. In the middle of the non-stopping fire between the US government and the Free States militia there’s a young reporter, Matty Roth, who finds himself where news are created by mistake, and grabs the chance to make a difference. It’s not the conventional story of a young rebel opposing the system and winning, oh no, this is something else. Manhattan, aka the DMZ, is a brave new world created by a new breed of people fighting to survive and express themselves, in the anarchy and mayhem created by forces these people can’t control they manage to find what positives there might be and speak their minds freely, making the DMZ a better place to live, even better than the safe United States outside of it.
In the new story arc beginning this April with issue #18 Matty finds himself interviewing an enlisted U.S. soldier who’s found guilty of a massacre within the DMZ.
“What follows is a look at how the DMZ came to be, from the perspective of a kid who came from the Midwest and walked right into a nightmare” (from the official Vertigo site).
I don’t know about you but I’m thrilled!
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