PRESS

NORTHLANDERS:

"...another creative victory for writer Wood (DMZ), who's quickly emerging as one the medium's premier scribes. Like his best work, Northlanders takes you into a well-researched, richly realized world that illuminates politics and culture without getting bogged down in history-book stuff... Northlanders [is] Vikings finally done right!" - Entertainment Weekly

"...epic in every way imaginable..." - Boston Now

Northlanders #1 …my PICK OF THE MONTH, Brian Wood’s new ongoing Viking book for Vertigo, which is pretty much everything I have ever wanted a comic book to be. - Brian K Vaughan

"Read the first two books for a curve-ball in your regular reading. Wood has a way of presenting street-level stories in a big picture way and Northlanders is no deviation of this. As his vast worlds get larger and larger, you’ll want to know every single little detail of them." - PopCultureShock

"He comes from the land of the ice and snow in the year A.D. 980 and Sven of Orkney is hell-bent on a mission of vengeance to get back the money his uncle stole from him--and that's just the beginning of this frozen Norse saga that's tougher than Conan and bloodier than 300." - Creem Magazine


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DMZ:

“Stupendous. . . . Matty [is]… one of the best characters in comics. . . . Wood is a tremendous writer. . . .DMZ is unrelentingly angry and mean, smart and shocking. Riccardo Burchielli's artwork is the perfect complement, using simple layouts and a great eye for facial expressions as well as backgrounds to keep the pace up. This is one hell of a collection.” —BoingBoing

"...striking realism... increasingly relevant..." "[DMZ] show[s] how violence and uncertainty effect not only society as whole, but also individuals on a hauntingly personal level." - IGN

The gritty comic book DMZ lies somewhere between a postapocalyptic nightmare and a bizarre tribute to Gotham tenacity... With a stark visual style that matches its narrative punch, this grim graphic novel from writer Brian Wood and artist Riccardo Burchielli measures up to any summer blockbuster.” -TIME OUT NEW YORK

There’s a war raging in the Middle East, and by that, I mean the East 40s, in fact, in Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli’s graphic novel, DMZ all of Manhattan is the battleground for a full-on American Civil War. Sounds crazy? Not really. The familiar setting illustrates the realities of the lives affected by war perfectly, and the spin on the media as self-serving and manipulative is more grounded in truth than most of us want to admit. All in all, a testament to the resilience of the indomitable New York spirit. You know, the one we had before all the yuppies and hipsters moved in.—NY PRESS

“DMZ is another genius creation form Vertigo, the DC Comics adult imprint... DMZ also gives voice to our human ability to rise above, to survive and persevere and it shows us that while we breathe, there is hope.” – CRIMESPREE MAGAZINE

“Wood and Burchielli’s excellent series... equal parts compelling drama and cautionary tale, filled with inspired little touches. Casting Manhattan as a combination of Baghdad and post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans is Wood’s most brilliant move, putting our own citizens through the same trials that civilians in those bombed-out and battered cities face today.” -SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

“Wood’s portrayal of the struggle to survive during wartime resonates in the current political climate, and Burchielli’s artwork, like the devastated Manhattan it depicts, is stark and grungy yet exciting and compelling.” -BOOKLIST

“The dramatic images recall the nightly news, and stories of warzone life ring true. A-” -ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

“Wood and Burchielli gut-wrenchingly portray the chaotic reality of life in a war zone.” -WASHINGTON POST

“Burchielli’s outstanding art really sells the story by intensifying familiar urban grunge into a Third-World-like battle zone. . . . This book is a disturbing, challenging success.” -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“One of the strongest ongoing series to come out of DC’s Vertigo line in some time, DMZ takes place in a near-future Manhattan that’s become a theoretical neutral turf in a still-ongoing second American Civil War. Writer/artist Brian Wood and artist Riccardo Burchielli hit their inexperienced reporter protagonist with a battery of sub-Third World squalid situations. DMZ: On The Ground collects the series’ first six issues, all plausibly grounded in an America that’s turned into the kind of danger zone most of us like to think we’ll never experience…”-THE ONION; GRADE: A-

“Looking for the next FABLES or Y: THE LAST MAN? Look no further than… DMZ.” -WIZARD MAGAZINE

“It’s a scary world Wood had created, and where you definitely want to have your press pass on you at all times. Your life might depend on it.” -THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER

“There is no shortage of urban war zones on the planet today. On the news, we see plenty of far away cities with bombed-out buildings and debris-covered cities. But what if these cities weren’t so far away? What if one of them was Manhattan? These are the questions asked and answered by DMZ.” -NEWARK STAR LEDGER

“Wood’s strength has always been in his characterization and [DMZ] is no different.” -SALT LAKE CITY WEEKLY

“DMZ does what comics do best: bleeding-edge, zeitgeist commentary mixed with hard-boiled adventure…. ” -DECIBEL

“I read this comic book called DMZ [by Brian Wood], which is about New York after kind of a Civil War. Could it happen? Every time the helicopters fly over my house I’m going, ‘Welcome to Baghdad!’ But it’s kind of fascinating, because they treat it like the country’s divided. All these cities like Lebanon and Beirut and Baghdad and military zones of control, yet it’s still the village and it’s still its own. Fascinating concept.”-ROBIN WILLIAMS on IGN.COM

“…possibly the most groundbreaking book of 2006.” -Warren Ellis, author (Transmetropolitan, Planetary, Fell)

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