New Releases by Brian Wood

The fifth volume in the critically acclaimed series that looks at life during wartime- America''s 21st Century Civil War. The world and characters of the DMZ-a wartorn Manhattan-are expanded and enriched in this volume as Matty Roth turns hisattention to ''the hidden war''-the thousands of ordinary people living under fire inside the DMZ. His subjects include a guerrilla artist in the underground arts scene, a former ally who''s now worse off than a homeless person and the powerful head of an organization within the DMZ and more.

Matty Roth reluctantly lands an interview for Liberty News with an enlisted U.S. solider 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.

In this third volume, collecting issues #13-17, Matty severs his ties to the Liberty News and becomes a free agent. He soon finds himself in over his head as he goes undercover and infiltrates a terrorist cell determined to disrupt any and all construction sites trying to rebuild the city.

In the near future, America''s worst nightmare has come true. With military adventurism overseas bogging down the Army and National Guard, the U.S. government mistakenly neglects the very real threat of anti-establishment militias scattered acrossthe 50 states. Like a sleeping giant, Middle America rises up and violently pushes its way to the shining seas, coming to a standstill at the line in the sand - Manhattan. Or, as the world now knows it, the DMZ. Matty Roth, a naive aspiringphotojournalist, lands a dream job following a veteran war correspondent into the heart of he DMZ. Things soon go terribly wrong, and Matty finds himself lost and alone in a world he''s only seen on television. There, he is faced with a choice: finda way off the island, or make his career with an assignment most journalists would kill for. But can he survive in this savage war zone long enough to report the truth?

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Collects Ultimate Comics X-Men #29-33. "World War X" begins! It''s Tian vs. Utopia when Jean Grey takes on Kitt y Pryde! Will the planet be torn apart when the two mutant nations go to war? Alliances are broken, sides are chosen and betrayals abound - but after a sneak attack on Utopia, and Jean''s strict warning that the rest of the world should stay out of the war, will the global mutant-on-mutant conflict finally unite...or divide mutants forever? As World War X claims its first casualties, Kitty Pryde becomes a revolutionary redux, Mach Two displays startling new powers, and James Hudson proves he''s more than just his father''s son!

Collects Ultimate Comics X-Men #24-28. The mutants have proved their worth, and Utopia thrives - but at what cost? Kitty makes a choice that could haunt her forever, as Mach Two''s jungle insurgency gains strength! Plus, there are eyes in the sky - but who''s watching the mutants? And when the mutant nation comes under siege, with General Ross leading the charge, Jimmy Hudson prepares for war...and Kitty and Mach Two must find out whether they can work together for the good of mutantkind!